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Africa
Senegal: When enough is enough and the people know it as that
A chain of constitutional breach and dishonesty are threatening a rare democracy in Africa Yordanos Gouhse, Accra, Ghana In an unfortunate turn of events, the 85-year-old Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade broke his own promise, made in 2000, to leave office after the first two terms of his presidential tenure …
Ethiopian women in the Middle East: it’s contract slavery
The vicious cycle of the lives of Ethiopian women in the Middle East shows no sign of end Hone Mandefro Following the oil boom witnessed since the ‘70s in the Gulf States, the hunt for foreign domestic workers, mostly women, to take up jobs less favored by the locals has …