At first, they look like any other young couple, saying their vows and taking their first tentative steps into a long and happy marriage. Then your eye is drawn to to the bride’s missing right arm, and the white bandages protecting what is left. Just five days before this footage was taken, Zanele Ndlovu was […]
A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after a court run by al-Shabab convicted her of having several husbands, the militant group says. Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was accused of marrying 11 times, without divorcing her previous husbands. She was buried neck-deep and pelted to death with stones by al-Shabab fighters, say residents of […]
An Ebola outbreak has been declared in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There are two confirmed cases of the virus and 17 deaths, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The incident in the town of Bikoro comes more than a year after an outbreak in the country killed four people. In 2014. […]
Alice Nachilembe
