Category: Health & Wellness
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Women take donkeys laden with jerry cans to a community water point in Kambinye, Kenya [Fredrik Lerneryd/Oxfam]
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A protester shouts as she holds a placard during a march against the rising cases of femicide, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya is facing an alarming surge in gender-based violence, with over 7,100 cases reported since September 2023, including 100 documented murders of women since August last year, according to government records. Among the survivors…
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Zainab Sakoteh sits in the Kingtom landfill in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, March 13, 2025, a place she frequents to meet the cartel that provide her with Kush. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly) At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone‘s capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of decomposing waste. Zainab sits there, squinting through the soot. It…
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Loss of funding could undo progress in reducing deaths in pregnancy and childbirth, especially in war zones, says UN. A pregnant refugee, who is bleeding, is taken to a hospital in Bangassou, DRC. Maternal deaths are nearly 35 times more likely in poorer countries than rich ones. Photograph: Alexis Huguet/MSF More women risk dying in pregnancy…
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Winner of the Queen of Ghana Beauty pageant, Nana Araba Sekum, is set to represent the country at the Queen of the World Pageant in the United States of America. The international event celebrating beauty, culture, and social causes is slated for May in the USA. The event will take place from May 6 to…
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