Ghana’s President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, has banned all ministers of state and government officials from travelling abroad until further notice. While the reasons behind the directive were not specified, the ban has been welcomed on social media as a step in the right direction to cut government expenditure.
Today we celebrate International Albinism Awareness Day with the global theme “shining our light to the world”. People with albinism continue to face multiple forms of discrimination worldwide. “The battle continues, but we are gaining ground,” UN expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism Ikponwosa Ero said.
The different expressions of pleasure through the African body in colonial and post colonial Africa have been strongly regulated and silenced. Before the disruption that was colonialism, there were traditional spaces, both public and private, that allowed for the discussion of sexual matters and the expression of its pleasure. However, African sexual pleasure and dance are now being reclaimed as powerful forms of communication and expression.
In Tanzania today, political space has shrunk to the point where protests are suppressed before they emerge
Authorities in Tanzania recently arrested five pregnant schoolgirls and their parents on the directives of a local district commissioner, reinforcing the President’s schoolgirl pregnancy ban. In Sierra Leone a U.S. based organisation, Equality Now (EN), and its partners are challenging a government ban on pregnant schoolgirls returning to the classroom after delivery.
If the referendum goes President Pierre Nkrunziza’s way, it will also be a further blow to ordinary Burundians, who live in a state of hardship and adversity.
New forms of artistic expression are driving debates in East Africa that challenge sensitive subjects. But the backlash has been vicious.
Efforts to discourage girls from being cut in Tanzania have changed the cultural meaning and practices around the ceremonial rite of passage.
Poaching is a blight that has robbed future generations of several species already, including the northern white rhino, of which only two females remain. Tanzania is now using proactive measures such as satellite collaring to save its drastically thinning elephant population
The Tanzanian regulation known as the Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations 2017, which will govern social media and blogging in that country, has been signed into law
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