Female lawmakers with artificial nails and false eyelashes have been banned from Tanzania’s parliament, local media reported on Monday.
Job Ndugai, the Speaker of Parliament, who made the announcement, stated that both cosmetic trends could cause health problems.
The ban has...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the foremost surveyors of economies around the world, has revised its 2018 economic growth forecasts and West African darling, Ghana, has lost Africa’s top spot to East African giant, Ethiopia.
Ghana, West Africa’s...
In many African societies, the girl child is seen as an object for sexual gratification. They are born, raised to be wives and given to men as old as their fathers because it is believed the girl child came...
More than 6,000 workers from the mainly white union - Solidarity - have begun a three-week strike in South Africa over their exclusion from a company share scheme by petrochemicals company Sasol.
Sasol recently introduced a new 10-year staff share...
Nigeria has the highest maternal mortality in the world. It’s the country with highest number of extremely poor people in the world and now, it has the highest burden of fatalities from air pollution in Africa and 4th globally.
According...
Girls’ education is proving to be an important factor in improving a developing nation’s quality of life. Educational equality is not only a lucrative asset to a nation’s economy, but also reduces rates of child malnutrition, and decreases the...
Christianity is the world’s largest religion, with a big presence in most parts of the globe. But not all Christians share the same levels of religious commitment.
Christians in Africa and Latin America tend to pray more frequently, attend religious...
The 2018 Global Peace Index has placed South Sudan as the most Dangerous country in Africa followed by Somalia.
The report which was released towards the middle of this year is the twelfth edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI),...
A recent report by Thomson Reuters Foundation has listed Nigeria as the ninth most dangerous country for women.
In the report, Nigeria had unimpressive ratings in sexual violence, cultural practices, and human trafficking. On the top of the list are...
The 2018 Global Peace Index has placed Mauritius as the safest country in Africa followed by Botswana.
The report which was released towards the middle of this year is the twelfth edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), the report...
