Anguish as rape survivors in Sudan unable to access vital medication
Emergency contraception, HIV-prevention and abortion drugs are locked in a warehouse in Khartoum – leaving women to turn to desperate measures Rape survivors in the...
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Aid agencies raise alarm as solo children cross Chad border to flee Sudan fighting
Unicef says ‘more and more unaccompanied children’ among thousands of refugees streaming across 1,000km-long border Hundreds of unaccompanied children have crossed the border from Sudan...
Lone renter in ‘David and Goliath’ row with Montreal developers
Carla White’s battle has shone a light on city’s lack of affordable new housing for those on low incomes A single tenant in a Montreal...
Ugandan president signs anti-LGBTQ+ law with death penalty for same-sex acts
Global outcry over Museveni’s assent to draconian new anti-gay law, condemned as a ‘permission slip for hate and dehumanisation’ Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has signed...
Peruvian police seize 58kg of cocaine bearing pictures of Nazi flag
Drugs found in shipment said to be destined for Belgium also had the name Hitler printed on them Peruvian anti-drug police have seized 58 one-kilo...
Nigeria’s doctors furious over plans for five years of mandatory service
MPs back new bill for medical graduates, designed to limit brain drain to countries including the UK and US A new bill to impose five...
Injectable HIV-prevention drug to be made in South Africa for the first time
Indian drug company to make cheaper generic version of CAB-LA, potentially protecting millions of people in Africa from the virus An affordable version of a...
Malawi’s Rastafarian children return to school after ban on dreadlocks is lifted
Schools told to honour court order as families seek compensation and training for pupils who missed education because of their hair About 1,200 Rastafarian children...
Sudan medical volunteers detained after being seized from ambulance
Mohamed Ahmed and Mohamed Jamal went missing last week while working to reopen a hospital in Bahri Activists in Sudan have expressed outrage after two...
Met police investigate more organ trafficking cases in UK
Modern slavery team reveals further allegations of people being trafficked to London for body parts The Metropolitan police is investigating more cases of organ trafficking...
