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June 28, 2015

The two towns belong to the same County in northeastern Kenya. Coastal Lamu town with its Muslim population, and the inland Mpeketoni which is...

Information on birth control from the pulpit

June 9, 2015

By Ilona Eveleens They call themselves the male champions. The five ministers from the poor area of Kayole in Nairobi have a double meaning for...

South Sudan: The hope of a better future lost

April 28, 2015

Game Dock had run out of school exercise books for his students some months ago. He is a teacher at a village school in...

A child soldier who became a monster

March 5, 2015

A child soldier who became a monster. Does he deserve punishment or is atonement the way to go? Dominic Ongwen made his first appearance before the ICC on the 26th of January 2015

Give value to the spirits in the fight against ebola

January 6, 2015

Only the people themselves can stop new infections, but do the fighters agains ebola listen enough to them?

Fear without borders: You are brain-fucking me

January 3, 2015

Fear of ebola: you are brain-fucking me

Albinos:tortured by the sun and hunted in the shade

October 17, 2014

The Maasai boy Molle in 2009 and in 2014 A long high wall shields students of the elementary school Mwerereni from the cruel world outside....

Nigerian Yoruba offer unique glimpse of religious tolerance

October 1, 2014

Nigeria is often in the headlines because of religious conflicts that have cost thousands their lives and displaced many more. The extremism contrasts with...

South Sudan: extremely poor or ridiculously rich

July 18, 2014

By Richard Dowden Surrounded by a series of blue and red suitcases two young women check in for the flight to the South Sudanese capital...

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