The Gambia’s Supreme Court began hearing a case this week brought by religious traditionalists who are hoping to topple the ...

The Gambia has one of the highest rates of FGM in the world, with 73 percent of women and girls aged 15 to 49 having ...

A kiss of eternity -a Jewish kiss in the Jewish homeland. They lit up that night’s darkness, moonlight notwithstanding—just ...

N. Dhar, advisor to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, recorded the chilling intent behind this violence by driving out Hindus in ...

It's been nearly three weeks since 18-year-old Onke Komsana from the rural village of Sithebe in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape left home for initiation school - the rite of passage for Xhosa boys ...

The Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Prince Zolile Burns-Ncamashe, is on an urgent oversight visit to the Eastern Cape, following a rise in the deaths of initiates ...

The question is not whether India can defeat terrorism. It is whether India can defeat those who manufacture the conditions ...

Indeed, any one of their military triumphs against the Syrians could have been considered the “miracle of Chanukah,” but it was the retaking of Jerusalem and the rededication of the Temple that ended ...

This discovery, involving mummified children from over 1,400 years ago A recent study published in the Proceedings of the ...

Headlines of initiates dying or losing their penises due to botched circumcisions are common as families face the fears of initiation school.

Mosop Member of Parliament Abraham Kirwa has raised an alarm over potentially ineffective and harmful medication in Kenya, days after returning to the country. The lawmaker spent months abroad ...

In May 2023, my son, Lauren, and four of his male friends visited New York, right after the end of their freshman year in college. My son had just turned 18. His friends were between 18 and 19. It was ...