A 12-year-old girl took action against period poverty.

A 12-year-old girl in Germany was so touched by the inspirational work of South African period poverty campaigner Tamara Magwashu that she managed to organise a large charitable donation. Caity Cutter was moved to do something after being shocked to learn from aBBC article about Ms magwasu that 30% of girls in South Africa did not…

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Protests in Kenya  escalating,as police clashing with anti-tax demonstrators.

Kenyan police clashed with anti-tax protesters in Nairobi, as demonstrations spread across the country, including to the president’s hometown of Eldoret. Anti-riot police, some on horseback, fired tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters on the streets of Nairobi. There were similar protests in other cities and major towns across the country – including Nakuru,…

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EU-funded Egyptian forces ‘rounding up and deporting Sudanese refugees’.

The Egyptian authorities have used EU-funded security forces in a campaign of mass arrests and forcible deportations against refugees from the Sudan war, according to a human rights group report. Amnesty International found Egypt “forcibly returned an estimated 800 Sudanese detainees between January and March 2024, who were all denied the possibility to claim asylum”….

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Mass arrests in Kenya as angry citizens protest against tax hikes.

Protests have erupted in parts of Kenya, with hundreds detained by police as citizens rejected planned tax hikes in the East African nation already grappling with escalating living costs. Civil society groups said that at least 283 people have been arrested since Tuesday as protests flared over the proposed hikes. The government faced backlash in…

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