'Racist school hair rules' suspended at SA's Pretoria Girls High

Rules over how female students wear their hair at a South African high school have been suspended after anti-racism protests from black pupils, a local minister says.

U.N. says 10,000 killed in Yemen war, nearly twice other estimates

 At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's 18-month-old civil war, the UN said on Tuesday, almost double the estimates of more than 6,000 cited by officials and aid workers for much of 2016.

ECOWAS to allocate adequate funds to human rights institutions

The President, Network of National Human Rights Institutions (NNHRI) in West Africa, Prof. Bem Angwe, on Monday called on ECOWAS Member States to allocate adequate funds to their Human Rights Institutions.

UN to investigate peacekeepers' response to South Sudan hotel attack

Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, has launched an independent special investigation committee to look into the peacekeepers' response to the Hotel Terrain attack on July 11 in South Sudan.

Women laud Somali for endorsing 30% parliamentary quota

Somalia's top political decision-making forum has been lauded for endorsing a 30 per cent parliamentary quota for women in the forthcoming general elections.

Catholic NGO inaugurates MFB, targets widows

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Justice, Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) of the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos, has established a Micro Finance Bank (MFB), in the Plateau capital.

Reproductive health: UNFPA to introduce husbands’ school

Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin, the Executive Director, UN Population Fund (UNFPA), says a Husbands’ School will be introduced in Nigeria to boost access to family planning and other reproductive health services.