Abigail Higgins

Ev­i­dence sug­gests that en­vi­ron­men­tal dis­as­ters could lead to ear­li­er mar­riages in the com­mu­ni­ties grave­ly af­fect­ed.

On Pope Fran­cis’s vis­it to Kenya, rights ac­tivists ques­tion Church stance on re­pro­duc­tive rights.

Stag­ger­ing AIDS death toll has forced con­ser­v­a­tive Tan­za­nia to help gay peo­ple long re­ject­ed by its health sys­tem.

Drug use has soared on the African is­land and women are the most vul­ner­a­ble.

Pub­lic strip­ping and as­sault of woman and ri­val protests there­after high­light Kenya’s gen­der-re­la­tions di­vide.

Grow­ing ef­forts un­der way in Liberia to em­ploy mo­bile phone tech­nol­o­gy to bol­ster re­sponse to the dead­ly out­break.

One Kenyan doc­tor of­fers free op­er­a­tions for women suf­fer­ing from the con­di­tion, which of­ten makes them out­casts.

Ma­ter­nal mor­tal­i­ty rates are falling in every in­dus­tri­alised na­tion – ex­cept for the Unit­ed States.