A South African inquest into the killing of the prominent Rwandan dissident Patrick Karegeya has opened in the suburbs of Johannesburg with a lawyer telling the court the former intelligence chief’s death was a political assassination. “We are deali...
Sexual violence has rarely been so high on the news agenda. Since allegations against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein started to emerge in October last year, the global problem has finally become a mainstream issue. The United Nations has estima...
In my first year at university in Nigeria, my roommate Kathy found out she had become pregnant by accident. She was 18, a promising student with her whole life ahead of her. But she wasn’t ready to become a mum and feared her family’s reaction. She...