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Orphanage Shut Down For Selling Babies In Eastern India

Two people running an adoption centre in West Bengal which is suspected of selling at least 17 children to couples...

International

Chibok Girl Recalls ‘miracle’ Release By Boko Haram

When Boko Haram fighters decided to release some of the 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped two-and-a-half years ago in...

Business

Ghana To Do Palm Oil Business Without Causing Deforestation

Ghana, together with six other African countries, has agreed in a declaration signed on Wednesday to protect their...

International

Zimbabwe’s Evicted Elderly White Farmers Pin Hope On Compensation

Brian van Buuren, a white former farmer in Burma Valley, eastern Zimbabwe, couldn't hide his anger as he recalled how...

Opinion

An Intriguing Story of Maasai Pastoralists

My dear reader, this article is characterized with a long digression because it is more or less a commentary on James...

International

World’s First Albino Beauty Pageant In Kenya Defies Deadly Stigma

With its evening gowns, celebrity judges and tears of joy, the beauty pageant in Kenya's capital was like others...

International

South Sudanese Stave Off Death With Water Lilies and Goat Bones

Tens of thousands of people in South Sudan are on the brink of starvation with many living in swamps and surviving on...

International

Illegal Child Marriages Flourish In Nepal, Stealing Youths’ Futures

Kopila Wosti was just 14 when her father married her off to a stranger who was five years older. A year later, she gave...