Month: October 2021

By Faith Nyasuguta  Some six Nigerian women and nine children who had been kidnapped months ago have managed to escape from their abductors. Nigerian officials said that the women and children were forced to walk for six days and nights to reach safety. It was revealed that the 15 hostages were abducted separately from farming […]

By Canisius Mushibwe With escalating cases of unemployment in South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa says the education system should adapt to helping people generate better skills needed for the country. President Ramaphosa said during a national teaching conference that some young work-seekers are not educated adequately with sufficient skills or work experience needed by employers in […]

By Faith Nyasuguta  Kenyans who suffer from mental illnesses lack immediate help at primary health facilities and are mostly referred elsewhere to once-a-week clinics, a new survey shows. It details that most health workers in dispensaries, health centres and level 4 hospitals have minimal  training on mental disorders, which means that many patients are lost […]

By Faith Nyasuguta  Migrants in Tripoli, Libya’s capital have demanded their immediate deportation to a safe location due to impoverished living standards in detention centers and ill-treatment by Libyan authorities. Severally, migrants have protested outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) headquarters in Tripoli while holding banners. One Sudanese migrant Omar Idris claimed […]

By Faith Nyasuguta  Researchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have said that missing money, opaque pay practices and poor management impede the coronavirus response in the nation. Based in New York University, the Congo Research Group says that many new committees that were established cost more money but failed to solve the problems. The […]