Zimbabwe: First Lady Lauds Kuyedza Women’s Club
Small to medium enterprises are drivers of economic growth and development in the country, First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe said yesterday. She said this during the ZRP 2016 Kuyedza Women’s Club annual show in Harare in a speech read on her behalf by Small toMedium Enterprises Development Minister Sithembiso Nyoni.”I urge the club to continue […]
Global Charity Attacked In Deadly Wave Of Kabul Violence
Afghan security personnel walk at the site following a car bomb blast that targeted the CARE International compound at Shar-e-Naw in Kabul on September 6, 2016. Explosions rang out during an hours-long attack on an international charity in Kabul, the latest assault in a wave of violence in the Afghan capital that has killed at […]
Namibia: Thousands of Women Get Commercial Farms
Windhoek — Of the 5 231 individuals who benefitted from the resettlement programme since independence to date, 1 405 are female, while 2 039 are men. The remaining 1 787 are classified as ‘group resettlement’. Director for land reform and resettlement in the Ministry of Land Reform Peter Nangolo said all landless Namibians that apply […]
Black Lives Matter Protesters Removed from London Airport Runway, police say
A group of Black Lives Matter activists whose protest temporarily shut down a London airport Tuesday have been arrested and removed from the runway, police said. Nine protesters caused flights to be suspended at London City Airport by locking themselves together on the runway and erecting a tripod, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement. […]
Scholars Mourn Foremost Novelist, Okpewho At 74
Reactions have continued to trail the demise of Africa’s foremost scholar of oral literature and award-winning novelist, Isidore Okpewho. He died at the age of 74 in Binghamton, New York, on Sunday. According to a critic and Okpewho’s former colleague at the University of Ibadan (UI) and Dean of Arts, Bowen University, Prof. Dan Izevbaye, […]
Ethiopia: Fire At Addis Ababa Prison ‘Leaves 23 Dead’
At least 23 people died when a fire broke out at a prison housing high-profile politicians in the Ethiopian capital, state-controlled media have said citing a government statement. The blaze erupted on Saturday at Addis Ababa’s high security Qilinto prison, where many opposition figures and journalists are held in a country gripped by a wave […]
Give To Homeless People It’s Human!
Recently, as a friend and I passed a homeless person on the street and gave her a handful of coins from our pockets, my friend asked: “Is it OK to give to homeless people on the street?” It’s rare to walk more than a few minutes in London without someone asking for spare change. People […]
When Society Forces Girls To Hate Their Bodies
In class, she sat quietly on the front row with two boys. She was not talkative and often kept to herself. The boys occasionally picked on her because she looked a little older than her age. One day, the teacher asked her to draw an illustration on the blackboard, and as she walked to the […]
International Day Of Charity: More Malaysians Are Going Out Of Their Way To Give
The late Mother Teresa once said: “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” She was known as the saint who devoted her life to helping people in need tirelessly, and became a symbol of peace and charity across the world. Since 2012, the United Nation […]
The Effect Of Charity : The Story Of ‘Baby Hope’
This is the heartbreaking moment a starving two-year-old Nigerian boy is given water by a charity worker after being left for dead by his family because they thought he was a witch. The boy, now named Hope, was found emaciated and riddled with worms after being forced to live off scraps thrown to him by […]
‘If I can help, I must’: Meet The Volunteers Working With Refugees
When three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed up on a Turkish beach not far from holidaymakers, Europe’s refugee crisis took on a new urgency. For those not already close to the growing disaster, this tragic image propelled people into action. Frustrated by a lack of effective government response, ordinary people filled cars and transit vans […]
South Africa: Man Arrested for Rape of Woman, 86
An 18-year-old man was arrested in connection with the rape of an 86-year-old woman in Qombolo village in Centane, Eastern Cape police said on Sunday. The woman was alone on Friday morning when the man allegedly raped her, said Captain Jackson Manatha. Manatha said it is not clear where the suspect had come from at […]
Minister of Women Affairs Bags 1st Eye Care Ambassador in Nigeria
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan has been conferred with an award as the first Eye Care Ambassador in Nigeria by the Nigerian Optometric Association (NOA). The president of the Nigerian Optometric Association (NOA), Dr Damian Echendu, presented the award when he led executive members of his association on […]
Rwanda: Action Aid Calls for Reduction of Women’s Unpaid Care Work
The country director of ActionAid Rwanda, Josephine Uwamariya, has said a reduction of unpaid care work among women will allow them to participate equally in the society and the economy. Uwamariya made the remarks today (Friday) in a training and dialogue for journalists on Unpaid Care Work. The workshop was organized by ActionAid in partnership […]
Farmer Urges Women, Youths to Embrace Vegetable Farming
A vegetable farmer in Delta, Mr Paul Ukpe, has called on women and youths in the Niger Delta region to venture into vegetables farming to improve their sources of revenue. Ukpe, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Asaba on Sunday, said that the soil in the […]