Nigeria’s Woman Problem
In my city, Abuja, an NGO called the Society against Prostitution and Child Labour has been collaborating with the city’s Environmental Protection Board to round up any woman found on […]
Author Archives: Chika Oduah
Senegal’s Mourides: Islam’s mystical entrepreneurs
Many of the street vendors commonly seen in Italy, France and Spain selling sunglasses, bags and souvenirs are members of a highly industrious, entrepreneurial branch of Sufi Islam, which has […]
Lead Poison In Nigeria
The app that saved 1,000 Nigerian children See the Multimedia Project: http://bit.ly/LeadPoisoninNigeria BAGEGA, Nigeria — About six years ago, several communities had succumbed to an outbreak of […]
Ebola cases down in West Africa
Largest Ebola clinic trims down A potent symbol of the nightmare enveloping west Africa at the height of the Ebola outbreak, the ELWA-3 treatment centre is being dismantled and incinerated […]
Niger Delta’s retired militants warn of new violence
Five years after ceasefire, Niger Delta’s retired militants warn of new violence Young combatants who handed their guns over to the government in 2009 say oil-soaked corruption and […]
First African Team to Compete in Tour de France
South African cycling team makes history South African team MTN-Qhubeka received one of five wildcard invitations to the 2015 Tour de France, making it the first team from Africa to […]
Fighting Slavery in Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian-based anti-slavery activist group recently released its 2014 Global Slavery Index, detailing the status of 167 countries with regard to each country’s […]
Sounds of Kinshasa
Sounds of Kinshasa: music, dance and culture are a lifeline in Congo The Congolese have long been neglected by those in power, doing what they can to get by in […]
Male Ebola survivors asked to abstain from sex
MONROVIA/DAKAR, 5 December 2014 (IRIN) – Male Ebola survivors in Liberia are being warned by local health authorities to abstain from sex for at least three months after being discharged […]
“Ebola Is Africa’s Problem”
VIENNA—After Oyewale Tomori finished his talk on Ebola here at the International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, there was stunned silence. Tomori, the president of the Nigerian Academy of Science, […]
