Lucie Peytermann
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UN envoy on migrants criticises ‘blindness’ of EU on Libya
The EU’s leadership team must renew pressure on Libyan authorities to come up with an alternative to this system of arbitrary detention
Kenya strife keeps world’s oldest pupil from school
Kimani Nganga sat in a classroom for the first time when he was 84. Four years later, the world’s oldest person to date to start school is stranded in one of Kenya’s camps for…
Ignorance breeds children among Kenyan teens
Margaret Waigumo cuddles her baby in a squalid house in the teeming "Soweto" slum, east of Nairobi, joining a growing number on the list of Kenya’s teen parents, victims of…
Islamist elected president in coup-plagued Comoros
Islamist candidate Ahmed Abdalla Sambi won a landslide victory in weekend presidential elections in the coup-plagued Comoro islands, according to provisional results announced on…
Poverty and tradition fuel Aids on Lake Victoria shores
On the banks of Africa’s largest lake, a deadly cocktail of poverty, prostitution and tribal widow inheritance practices is fuelling a surge in HIV/Aids even as progress is made…
Lake Victoria groans as pollution takes toll
With a huge amount of detergent, a young man washes a bus on the shores of Lake Victoria while a woman nearby cleans dishes seemingly oblivious to the chemical contamination.…