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Yabelo, 13 July, 2004— Guyo Goba has just turned 30. In a matter of weeks he will be installed as leader of Ethiopia’s 500,000 Boran pastoralists – a role he has spent the past 17 […]

Mbabane, 21 June, 2004— High school girls who fall pregnant will no longer be expelled from their schools, the Swaziland Schools Headteachers Association resolved last week. The policy change overturns what has been standard practice […]

London, 28 April, 2004— The UK union that represents the clergy is warning that the practice of offshoring religious services to the west is an omen of the impact that offshoring will have to the […]

Nairobi, 10 March, 2004— Following various seminars conducted by NGOs to mark the 8 March International Women’s Day, 200 female circumcisers from Kenya’s Rift Valley Province have abandoned their tools of trade and vowed to […]

Johannesburg, 3 March, 2004— Southern Africa continues to be the major source of cannabis in Africa, according to an annual report by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). A separate concern, notes the INCB report, […]

Washington, 27 February, 2004— A color photograph in black and white — a South African immigrant and his albino son — a pieta with a black Mary cradling a sacrificial goat, a digitized print of […]

London, 11 February, 2004— It’s National Marriage Week – but young people across the UK are turning their backs on wedded bliss. Over 68% of 18-35 year olds polled online at Lycos.co.uk , claimed marriage […]

Niamey, 6 February, 2004— Niger’s Minister for Social Development and Women’s Affairs called on Friday for a government crackdown of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), widely known as female circumcision. The practice was made illegal in […]