Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused thousands of children over a 70-year period and silenced victims through “the weaponization of faith” and a...
Tunisia is set to give women equal inheritance rights after the country's president on Monday proposed to table a law to that effect.
President Beji...
South Africans have been mourning a young South African who committed suicide following her ordeal in the hands of rapists.
Funeral was held for the...
A South African student who was raped in May this year has died by committing suicide, local media reports.
Khensani Maseko from the Rhodes University...
Pope Francis has changed the teachings of the Catholic faith to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances, the Vatican has said.
The Catechism of...
Recognizing the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons is a thorny issue in most African countries.
Only a handful of countries...
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a prominent US cardinal accused of sexually assaulting a teenager nearly 50 years ago.
Theodore McCarrick, 88, a...
Ghanaian communities have unique names that are usually given by early settlers.
Some of these communities are named after people, situations and occasions.
In Ghana, lawmakers...
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
