While South Africa is said to be facing a growing human trafficking problem, figures on the extent of this phenomenon remains lacking. According to recent findings, South Africa ranks among the 10 countries in Africa where human trafficking is worst, with 100 000 people reportedly being trafficked in the country[…]
The U.N. children’s agency says an armed group in South Sudan has abducted 89 boys in a northern state. UNICEF said in a statement Saturday that the boys, some as young as 13, were abducted near Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile state. The statement said a UNICEF education team[…]
Gunmen abducted the chief of staff to Yemen’s president early Saturday in the center of the capital, Sanaa, security officials said, starkly highlighting the unrest plaguing the Arab world’s poorest country. The kidnapping of Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak comes as Yemen remains gripped by Shiite Houthi rebels and battered by[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat – President Obama’s decision to release five detainees from Guantanamo in exchange for an American POW held by the Taliban in Afghanistan, has sparked outrage in certain quarters. His Republican opponents have attacked him by claiming that the release of the detainees, violates congressional restrictions and[…]
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