By Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) – At an orphanage in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa, more than 60 children stared at their plate of palm weevil larvae fried up in spices, sharing nervous smiles, before curiously digging into the thick white worms. The orphans are being fed the protein-rich larvae, known locally as […]
At least 100 young women, including many orphans, have been married off in separate ceremonies in Nigeria, following widespread outrage in the country. Friday’s event was initially meant to be a mass wedding, but Women’s Affairs Minister Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye filed a court order to stop it, fearing that some girls were underage. She went back […]
The planned mass wedding of about 100 orphans has sparked widespread outrage across Nigeria. The orphans, some of whom are feared to be underage girls, are set to be married off on 24 May in the north-western state of Niger. They have all lost parents to attacks by armed bandits, who regularly target civilians across […]
Before I went into foster care, I always looked up to my biological mother. She was a woman of God, fierce and taught me a key lesson: There is always hope. It’s a lesson that sustained me and still does as I now prepare to enter college – something I would have never imagined just […]
An eight-year-old boy and two eighteen-year-old orphans, facing the threat of conscription into the ranks of the Russian army, have been successfully repatriated from the Russian-occupied area of Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast, Save Ukraine charity founder Mykola Kuleba reported on Facebook on Dec. 24. The eight-year-old, Yelysei, had resided with his grandmother in occupied Kherson Oblast […]