South Sudan Women Propose Sex Strike
A group of activists have appealed to women across the country and in the diaspora to consider denying their husbands sex until the conflict in the country is resolved. read more »
Uganda Allays Ebola Fears After 1 Death, 13 Isolated
The country's health ministry says there is no Ebola case in the country after blood tests from a man suspected to have died of the haemorrhagic fever was found to be negative. read more »
New Violence Sends Thousands of South Sudanese Fleeing
Clashes between the army and a rebel group, the National Salvation Front, broke out in Yei on January 19. This was barely four months after the latest peace deal aimed at ending the country's … read more »
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The country's health ministry says there is no Ebola case in the country after blood tests from a man suspected to have died of the haemorrhagic fever was found to be negative. Read more »
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Clashes between the army and a rebel group, the National Salvation Front, broke out in Yei on January 19. This was barely four months after the latest peace deal aimed at ending ... Read more »
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President Salva Kiir says that implementation of the revitalized peace agreement still faces many challenges, largely because of the international community's wait-and-see ... Read more »
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Five years of civil war in the country has not only killed almost 400,000 people, they've also left a nation of traumatised survivors in their wake - millions of them displaced and ... Read more »
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Africa's newest and 54th state, South Sudan, has seen an increase in political turmoil, famine, fighting over oil, violence and allegations of rape and killing of women and ... Read more »
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On 15 December 2013, conflict broke out in the world's youngest nation. In September 2018, President Salva Kiir and opposition leaders, including Riek Machar, signed an agreement ... Read more »
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Ebola in the Democratic Republic Congo has now spread to urban areas. The Conversation Africa's Moina Spooner spoke to Mosoka Fallah who was head of case detection during Liberia's ... Read more »
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A number of local initiatives are trying to ease the way for refugees to rebuild their lives, as an agreement signed in September by President Salva Kiir, rebel leader Riek Machar, ... Read more »
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Aid organisation Medicins Sans Frontieres in a joint report with the UN, has said that up to 20 men are responsible for raping and assaulting women walking to collect food to take ... Read more »
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Despite its role as peace broker, Uganda has been among the clandestine suppliers of weapons that originate in the EU, U.S. and China to both sides of the bloody civil war in South ... Read more »