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Africa: From Cleaning Corpses to Sex With Strangers, Widow Rituals Fuel Disease
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 22 June 2016
"If you accept these degrading rituals, you run the risk of disease. If you don't, you are ostracised." Read more »
Millions of widows in sub-Saharan Africa are left destitute after being disinherited and robbed of their property, women's rights campaigners have said ahead of International Widows' Day.
When Madam Mawa Karr was widowed at age 27, she had six children and was nine months pregnant with her seventh child. But she had land, a deed to the land, and a house. That gave her more security than many widows have under Liberia's current land tenure system (file photo).
Widows of dead and former soldiers of the Armed Forces of Liberia went half naked on the grounds of the Capitol building to demand their husbands' benefits. Read more »
A Kenyan court has said prosecutors should close their case against British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite after failing to produce her in court.
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