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East Africa Sudan 

Families flee from South Sudan to Uganda in Africa’s biggest exodus since 1994 Rwandan genocide

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At least 832,000 South Sudanese refugees have arrived in Uganda since fighting erupted in July last year, in the biggest cross-border exodus in Africa since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Overall, the fighting has uprooted more than three million people, and by July 5.5 million – nearly half the population – are unlikely to have a reliable food supply, according to… Read More
Lifestyle OP-ED 

How To Remain Bosom Friends With The Law!

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However minor, severe or abominable, almost everybody commits crime! The adorable part is, not everybody gets caught! Likewise, not everyone who gets caught, gets convicted. The law is a shrewd old busy woman who’s got her hands full everyday, so she bothers very little about the truth. The ‘truth’ according to her job description, is the assembling of “factual evidence”… Read More
Human Rights OP-ED 

Death Penalty: World’s biggest executioner China must come clean about ‘grotesque’ level of capital punishment

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  1,032 executions worldwide in 2016, down 37% from 2015 (1,634) ·         Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan join China as world’s top five executioners ·         USA not among top five for first time since 2006, with lowest number of executions since 1991 ·         Botswana is one of just four countries in the world to resume executions in 2016; along… Read More
Erdogan Middle East OP-ED 

The Looming End To The Western-Turkish Alliance

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The growing tension between Turkey and its Western allies, which was further heightened during the Obama administration, is narrowing the space for cooperation between the two sides and in fact is progressively worsening. Erdogan’s hope that he and President Trump would improve their ties as members of NATO has dramatically diminished. Washington and the EU still deeply disagree with Ankara… Read More
Atheist Lifestyle OP-ED 

Invisibility of Atheism: Exploring the Phenomenon of Worldly Religion in Africa

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Atheism is a term that is not often associated with Africa and Africans. Studies have rather linked both ancient and modern Africa to religion and theism. The overwhelming impression is that Africans are hard-wired to mystical thinking and magic. In fact, a scholar of religion, John Mbiti, described Africans as notoriously religious. Of course, many events that take place in… Read More
OP-ED West Africa 

Approval Rating From Family, Friends and Clergy Won’t Guarantee A Good Wife!

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Wife hunting, has interestingly been modified from a mere romantic craving, into a more complex form of informal recruitment. Candidates who scale through the first series of selection (from episodes of friendship, casual dating and even hookups) are ushered into the next round, with the accompanying tag name- “Wife Material.” This is often the most crucial stage, as these ‘Wife… Read More
Mutharika and Kagame Malawi 

Malawi President Mutharika says to borrow leaf from Rwanda’s Paul Kagame on decent housing program

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President Peter Mutharika says Malawi will borrow a leaf from Rwanda on how it managed to turn 99 percent of its mud and grass thatched house into modern decent houses for its citizens within 10 years. Mutharika said this during a press briefing on his return from the 18th Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) heads of state... Read More
Violence against women Getaways People 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and ABUSE: Shouldn’t women share a mini-portion of the blame?

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It’s both our prayers, that men who are domestic abusers, “burn in hell and rot away in agony!” Oh yeah, I totally do agree with the vengeful prayer request, but hit the brakes for a moment… I think there’s probably another way to look at it. With the flourishing rate of domestic violence in almost all metropolitan and rural societies,… Read More
People 

Why Online Dating Advice Could Ruin Your Relationship

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The internet has programmed itself, into a non-degree awarding college of diverse knowledge, where almost everyone suddenly runs to for a quick fix on how to polish what’s left of their relationship, or dust dwindling emotions off, without necessarily having to endure long hours of exhaustive classroom lectures. The internet is saturated with so much misconception, through the assumed ‘conventional… Read More
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