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Study finds that reading enhances the likelihood teenagers will go on to study for a degree, writes <b>Jeevan Vasagar</b>.
Frequent playing of computer games appears to reduce teenagers’ chances of going to university.
The bombings in Uganda were cruelly targeted to cause maximum casualties and publicity, most likely for the al-Shabaab group,
Like many children in northern Uganda, Omony has witnessed boys and girls committing terrible crimes. But he can talk about his experiences in a way others cannot. The reason:…
Western aid agencies ”brushed aside” the work of local community groups in a rush to spend the record-breaking donations raised after the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami,…
It must count as one of Britain’s trickier public relations jobs. Europe’s biggest Muslim cultural event opens in London and it will coincide with the anniversary of the July 7…
Dirt-cheap, straight-to-video voodoo horror flicks have made Nigeria the world’s third-largest film industry, writes Jeevan Vasagar.
Kenya’s attorney general recently signalled his willingness to tackle the country’s biggest corruption scandal by charging five men, including the former governor of the central…
Britons spend more than £1,5-billion a year on cut flowers, and Kenya has nearly a quarter of the market, which peaks around February 14 as millions of Britons give flowers to…
Mary has spent the day gathering sheaves of grass to feed the cattle, weeding the vegetable patch and helping her mother cook dinner over a charcoal fire: the life of any African…
Water used to flow through the taps in Tabata, a sprawling suburb of whitewashed bungalows in Tanzania’s biggest city, Dar es Salaam. These days, the faucets and steel water…
Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the epoch-shaping onslaught on New York and Washington but a string of other al-Qaeda attacks since 1998 has left little mark on our…
On a shallow slope between two hills of orange rock and sand, a man’s body lies curled in a foetal position. His hands are thrown up as if to protect his face from the bullet…
Unites States Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday that the militias which have terrorised western Sudan ”must be broken”, and described conditions in the region as…
A moral panic over homosexuality in Zanzibar has prompted the island’s government to draft a law imposing life imprisonment for men convicted of gay sex. Homosexuality is already…
Thousands of Rwandans accused of participating in genocide have been offered a ”final chance” to be released from prison if they confess their guilt and ask for forgiveness…
The slogan on the side of the taxi-van told the world that its name was 2fast 2furious; the reggae was pumping, and the tout hung out of the sliding door hollering fares and…
The cost of living in the eurozone has soared in comparison with the rest of the world, according to a new portrait of living costs around the globe.
