French troops suspended over child sex

UN peacekeepers regularly barter goods for sex with people in the countries such as Liberia, a draft UN report says.

Undercover filming showed the Ghanaian academics breaching university policies on sexual harassment.

The two officers in Paris were filmed using an extremely offensive word for North Africans.

French troops reach the town of Bossangoa in the Central African Republic, which has been paralysed by communal fighting

French troops in Mali free five aid workers who were kidnapped in the north of the country by suspected Islamist militants in February.

During the early grade-school years, children’s natural interest in their own bodies starts to give way — at least some of the time — to an increasingly compelling interest in their social world. They’re busy trying to make and keep friends and develop their social and physical skills on the playground and ball field. Their interest in sex at this age can vary widely.

Girls as young as eight in Mozambique and Zambia are forced to go to camps where they are shown how to please a man in bed in order to prepare them for married life, activists said at an international conference on ending child marriage.
These sexual initiations begin once menstruation starts and sometimes involve sticks being inserted inside the girls, Persilia Muianga of international aid agency World Vision said.
She added that some mothers force young daughters to sleep with a man in the...

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TANZANIAN troops will continue participating in international peacekeeping missions, with the view of ensuring that the world is a better place to live in. Minister for Defense and National Service, Dr Hussein Mwinyi, speaking at the commemoration of ...

On the occasion of French Cooperation Day, Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Hon. Dr. Seif Rashid, today joined the French Ambassador, His Excellency Marcel Escure and visiting dignitaries from the Agence Française de Développement (French Agency for Development – AFD) at the Aga Khan Hospital to mark the expansion of the Aga Khan Hospital.

AFD is providing a concessional loan of US$ 53.5 million (Tshs 90 billion) for the expansion.  The Aga Khan Development Network is contributing...