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Ehab Salah spara e uccide la moglie

CAIRO – Il noto anchorman della tv di Stato egiziana Ehab Salah è stato arrestato per aver ucciso a colpi di pistola la moglie, la 35enne Magda Waheed. Il dramma si sarebbe consumato al termine di una lite. La notizia è riportata dal sito web del quotidiano [...]

Rape risk from slum toilets

NAIROBI – Judy Wanjiku, 26, lost a tooth during an attempted rape in Nairobi’s Mathare slum as she walked to a toilet near her home one evening.

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Behind bars for rape

GOMA – In a country known as the most dangerous in the world to be female, the most unusual aspect of the story of convicted rapist Eleka Amungu is that he is behind bars.

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Impunity in rape cases thrives

FREETOWN – Police records in Sierra Leone show that after months of court appearances, Janice, 35, dropped charges against the four men she said gang-raped her and then filled her vagina with sand. This is one of nearly 1,000 cases of sexual assault filed in 2009 in which the perpetrators were never punished.

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Silence endangers girls

ZIGUINCHOR – Girls’ safety hinges on families’ willingness to speak out about sexual violence, researchers in Senegal’s southern Casamance region said at the release of a study that reveals widespread violence against girls aged 10 to 13.

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Troops reinforcing a porous and dangerous border

MUSINA – South African special forces troops have begun a six-month deployment along the troubled border with Zimbabwe, where rape, robbery and other crimes are commonplace, and the flow of desperate migrants continues unabated.

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Minor rebels, major terror

NIANGARA – They may number as few as 100 men, women and adolescents, but Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) units scattered across the forests of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Orientale Province have sown sufficient terror to make some 318,000 people take flight, abandoning their homes and fields, in many cases to the uncertain sanctuary of urban centres.

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My wife was raped because I gave my opinion to a newspaper

CAPE TOWN – Michael Uredi, 37, a cabinet maker, came to South Africa from the Eastern Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) eight years ago. He is a member of the Bembe ethnic group, married to a woman from the Banyamulenge, so he is not welcome at home and his wife was raped by his “own people” before they fled. This is his story.

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Police crackdown on migrant Fulani herdsmen

ACCRA – Security officials in Ghana are cracking down on migrant Fulani herdsmen, accusing them of rape, vandalism, destruction of farms and armed robbery, but conflict resolution specialists say the herdsmen are being manipulated and the government must abide by regional right-of-passage laws.

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Guantanamo detainees transfered to Algeria

The US Department of Justice has announced that two Algerian detainees, Hasan Zemiri and Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili, have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the custody and control of the government of Algeria.

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