A wave of killing of women and children has horrified the country in recent weeks since the gradual easing of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions on June 1.
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Are Nigeria’s Christians the target of a genocide?
Increasingly brutal attacks on Christian villages have been explained as the result of conflict over diminishing resources.
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John F. Kennedy on the Algerian crisis
John F. Kennedy wrote for America on the brewing crisis between France and Algeria in 1957. Algeria gained independence from France in July 1962.
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In Togo, a Catholic nun fights coronavirus for the sake of her AIDS patients
Born in Togo in 1967, Sister Marie Stella Kouak attended nursing school in Belgium and returned in 1998 to work at a pediatric hospital in Dapaong run by her congregation, now known as the Sister Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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Africans memorialize George Floyd, say ‘Enough is enough’
The former president of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, gave voice to the thoughts of many in Africa when he wondered if George Floyd’s murder “cannot shock the American populace to see evidence of their own decline, what can?”
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Tanzanian Catholic diocese works to protect girls from abuse
The Mara region of Tanzania, of which Musoma is the capital, has some of that country’s highest rates of child marriage and female genital mutilation, even though both are technically illegal in Tanzania.
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Post-Mugabe, human rights abuses continue in Zimbabwe. Will Covid-19 make things worse?
As under Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s contemporary political elite continue to trample on civil libertie with what the same disregard of censure from both local moral authorities and international human rights organizations.
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African church leaders work to curb domestic abuse during lockdown
Church leaders in Africa are urging more attention be paid to the problem of spousal abuse during the pandemic.
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In southern Nigeria, nuns put tuberculosis, leprosy patients on road to recovery
Nigeria has seen an increase in the rates of tuberculosis and Hansen’s disease. Late diagnosis and lack of effective tools for prevention and treatment have contributed to the lack of an effective model to predict their spread
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Amid pandemic, Pope Francis prays for Europe and for all mothers on Mother’s Day
Pope Francis also drew attention to Africa and recalled that 40 years ago, St. John Paul II spoke out about the plight of the people of the Sahel.