Photo credit: Africa News A shipwreck off Tunisia claimed the lives of at least 40 African migrants. United Nations news reports that the tragedy came amid concerns that worsening conditions for refugees and asylum-seekers in North Africa are pushing more families to embark on perilous journeys. The boat, which had departed the Tunisian village of…
Photo credit: Aljazeera Four United Nations agencies have called for urgent international attention on Sudan’s crisis, to address the immense suffering and growing dangers to the population. In a press release, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says over 900 days of brutal fighting, widespread violations of human rights, famine, and the breakdown of life-sustaining services have…
Protecting trafficked children in the US – documentary. Tina Frundt is one of Washington DC’s most experienced specialists in projecting children from sex tracking. Many of the youths she supports are targeted and exploited on social media platforms, which give traffickers unprecedented levels of access to their victims. Fighting back to break this cycle, Tina works…
There’s really a lot to dance about in Nigeria of today. The ever wise Yoruba have said when a situation is beyond weeping, just try and laugh. Why won’t we dance, all our civil servants get paid on time. It’s only those people who are against our governance who have failed to see these things….
When people describe Nigeria as the poverty capital of the world, it’s not really a new thing. That’s because the Yoruba have a saying that , when a single person is rich in the community, then the whole community is poor. What’s going on in Nigeria now can be termed as a liberation of the…
Photo credit: Facebook I used to believe a single wife was damn too “many” for an individual. Why? Apart from the financial capabilities, what about the emotional and physical touches? I’m aware of the great Fela’s feat of marrying 27 wives on a single day. However, he was to divorce all of them later and…
Photo credit: National Catholic Reporter The Vatican should soon announce that it will return a few dozen artifacts to Indigenous communities in Canada as part of its reconciliation for the Catholic Church’s role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas. The Canadian Press reports that the items are part of the Vatican Museum’s ethnographic collection, known…
