The 30-year rule of Sudan’s president Omar Hassan al-Bashir was ended on Thursday when the military announced it had finally unseated their leader, who governed with an iron fist and is wanted on charges of genocide.
Agbogbloshie, an e-waste scrapyard in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, is where discarded electronics imported from developed and neighboring African countries go to die. Thousands of women who trade on the contaminated site are at risk due to prolonged exposure to toxic fumes from e-waste.
Despite a peace agreement, sexual violence is on the rise in Mali’s conflict. But the International Criminal Court in The Hague is considering an unprecedented case for the prosecution of sexual violence.
Colleagues are vowing to continue the work of the courageous journalist, who died recently at 46.
The targeting of a member of parliament has shed light on everyday violence against women.
