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Gender-Based Violence: WAHO participates in tech experts’ meeting ahead of SWEDD +First Ladies Forum in Banjul
By TOM CHIAHEMEN – Officials of the West African Health Organisation (WAHO), are currently participating in the technical Experts’ Meeting taking place in Banjul, Republic of The Gambia, ahead of the Forum of First Ladies of SWEDD+ countries on zero tolerance of gender-based violence. The meeting brings together experts The post Gender-Based Violence: WAHO participates
Violence plagues ANCYL elective conferences across KZN
The elective conferences of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in various regions in KwaZulu-Natal continue to be plagued by violence and physical fights that sometimes require police intervention. The violence issue started last Monday in Kokstad in southern KwaZulu-Natal during the elective conference of the Harry Gwala region...
An end to the violence? PKK leader calls on group to disband
After announcing a "historic declaration" on Thursday, Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) , called upon the militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve itself. This would mark the end of decades of violence between the PKK and the Turkish state...
The real-life violence that inspired South Korea’s ‘Squid Game’
Riot police march in front of the Ssangyong offices on August 6, 2009, after massive layoffs turned a car plant into a battlefield - Copyright AFP/File Jung Yeon-je Claire LEE A factory turned into a battlefield, riot police armed with tasers and an activist who spent 100 days atop a chimney — the unrest that
Electoral violence: We do not have police in Nigeria – Falz, Mr P express disgust
Nigerian singer and actor, Folarin ‘Falz’ Falana and his colleague, Peter ”Mr P” Okoye have called out the Nigerian Police for failing to protect the people during the 2023 general elections. Their emphasis was on the attack on voters in Lagos state by thugs loyal to the All Progressives Congress...
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