African Woman and Child Feature Service

Women urged to go for elective positions

As South Sudan walks into this year’s historical general elections, there seems to be a number of issues nagging Southern Sudanese women voters.

Despite the return of peace after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005, the most worried group remains the Southern Sudanese women who still cannot define their place and role in the scheduled July general elections.

Couple's desperate hunt for quality donated sperm

Fertility experts are appealing to well educated and professional men to come out and donate sperms to meet the demand and the preferences of an increasing number of couples and single women looking for sperms from a particular breed of people.

The forgotten patients make hospital their home

A group of patients at Mathari Hospital have found themselves stuck at the facility for a total of 186 years after their families declined to accept them back even after they were found fit to be integrated in the society.

East African cities at risk of disasters

Citing the recent frequent earth tremors that hit parts of Nairobi last year, and the landslides witnessed in the city’s outskirts, Prof. Obudho warns that these are signs of more terrifying events, some with devastating consequences.

Infertile man keeps mum as wife gets pregnant

A woman who has suffered physical and emotional violence for close to eight years for being unable to conceive was all smiles when a pregnancy test she did following an In Vitro Fertilization showed she was three weeks pregnant.

Judy (not her real name) said her life has been hell, with her husband subjecting her to emotional and physical violence that almost cost her life.