After a series of deadly attacks by al-Shabab terrorists, hundreds of nonlocal teachers in Kenya’s northeast are demanding transfers out of the region, which is largely Muslim causing an education crisis in the country. Schools reopened August 28, but most students have not yet resumed classes.
The Mozambique National Institute of Statistics recently released a study that found four out of ten women were married before becoming 18 years old. The illegal practice is hard to stop and dangerous for those who try to escape their situation.
Local market traders say that the conflict in Sudan has led to a significant rise in pricing in the border region of South Sudan’s neighbor. The World Bank estimates that 90% of South Sudan’s revenue is generated by oil exports through Sudan, but the conflict is also stifling the country’s ability to produce and export oil.
Somalia’s prime minister this month announced a 30% quota for female lawmakers chosen in February’s indirect election by Somali clans. If upheld by the clans, it would raise the number of female representatives by 6%, but women’s groups see even that slight jump as doubtful in patriarchal Somalia
High unemployment and poverty are pushing Zimbabwe’s laborers into mining for gold in disused and dangerous mine shafts that too often turn into death traps
Kenya is one of the countries you can find in East Africa with its capital in Nairobi. The country has a population of43.5 million. Kenya is bounded in the South to Uganda and North to Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan