United Nations, United States | AFP | UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged governments to include the protection of women in their response to the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic. Reports of domestic violence have surged globally in the wake of massive lockdowns imposed to contain the spread of the disease. …
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Omoro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A man in Omoro district is in trouble for setting his estranged wife a blaze using petrol leading to her death. The suspect is 41-year-old Job Acellam Okot, a resident of Layibi Go-Down in Gulu Municipality. It is alleged that Okot stormed the residence of …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Aswa river region police is distressed by rampant cases of suicide, a number of which have been linked to frustration. More than 10 cases of suicide have been recorded between December 2019 and early January 2020, according to records by the area police. The …
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Moscow, Russia | AFP | Natalia Tunikova’s partner pushed her towards the open balcony in their high-rise Moscow flat, before punching her to the floor. Fearing she would die, she reached for their kitchen table and “grabbed the nearest object”. It was a knife. Tunikova, 47, said she was subjected to …
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