By Miriam Mannak Zimbabwe has not had a lot of luck over the past years. Political oppression, violence, government led terrorism, cholera, hunger, poverty and total economic collapse have crippled the country...
created by Miriam Mannak | 38 wks ago | updated 37 wks ago 150 views | 32 recommendations | 4 comments
Nigeria's health authorities are warming citizens of a toxic paracetamol syrup which has killed dozens of children two months after they started teething. It is yet to be determined which ingredient of the syrup...
created by Miriam Mannak | 47 wks ago | updated 47 wks ago 1176 views | 71 recommendations | 9 comments
By Miriam Mannak In Senegal, nine men have received a nine-year jail sentence. Not because they killed, stole, pillaged, raped, abused, hijacked, hurt, stabbed, shot, assaulted or robbed - they were punished...
created by Miriam Mannak | 49 wks ago | updated 49 wks ago 425 views | 70 recommendations | 11 comments
By Miriam Mannak Three boy scout instructors have been arrested by the Zimbabwean police and are accused of training terrorists to topple the government of president Robert Mugabe. The white men run the outdoor...
created by Miriam Mannak | 49 wks ago | updated 49 wks ago 341 views | 31 recommendations | 6 comments
By Miriam Mannak While Zimbabwe has fallen victim to a cholera outbreak of note and Mozambicans are fleeing the floods, another crisis looms in Southern Africa. It is an old, forgotten and silent crisis – which...
created by Miriam Mannak | 49 wks ago | updated 49 wks ago 389 views | 13 recommendations | 1 comment
By Miriam Mannak
His eyes are hollow and empty, his hands rest on the rifle that is slung around his shoulders. He can't be older then eleven years old - this little Sudanese boy whom is portrayed on a...
created by Miriam Mannak | 50 wks ago | updated 50 wks ago 572 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
Hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans are threatened by floods, which are caused by heavy rainfall. According to the authorities, the rain season has been the worst in many decades. As a result, the...
created by Miriam Mannak | 50 wks ago | updated 49 wks ago 1598 views | 28 recommendations | 3 comments
By Miriam Mannak (from Lubumbashi /DRC) Over the past week, thirteen people were murdered in Lubumbashi- the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the capital of the Katanga province. Among the casualties are two Lebanese nationals and a man from...
created by Miriam Mannak | 50 wks ago | updated 50 wks ago 255 views | 42 recommendations | 5 comments
The authorities in Cape Town are on high alert after a 4-month old baby was admitted to hospital with cholera. According to the provincial health department of the Western Cape, the case is probably not related...
created by Miriam Mannak | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 584 views | 32 recommendations | 7 comments
By Miriam Mannak The wave of rape and sexual violence that is sweeping through the north eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached epidemic proportions, various aid organisations say....
created by Miriam Mannak | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 825 views | 7 recommendations | 7 comments
Two long weeks after he was abducted from the Niger Delta, Ben Strachan - a Scottish oil worker - was freed and reunited with his Nigerian wife and their son. Strachan - who is employed by one of the many oil...
created by Miriam Mannak | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 156 views | 8 recommendations | 3 comments
Zimbabwe is in desperate need of many things. Food, economic stability, and a full stop to the political madness, among other many things. And now it needs body bags. And lots of them. According to an...
created by Miriam Mannak | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 262 views | 59 recommendations | 9 comments