By: Ana Garcia-Velez Child marriage is defined as any “formal marriage or informal union between a child under the age of 18 and an adult or another child.” It is an egregious human rights violation that robs children, predominantly girls, of protections, opportunities, and, most significantly, their childhood. Girls who marry before the age of […]
DANIEL CELAYA – Yahya Jammeh, former, proud[1] dictator of Gambia, cut his regime short of his projected billion year mark[2] when he finally accepted the official results of last December’s election on the early morning of January 21st, 2017.[3] The peaceful transition of power is the first in Gambian history, but it did not come […]
BY JUSTIN HUNTER – On October 30, 2014, protestors in the small West African nation of Burkina Faso stormed and torched the parliament building.[1] The capital city of Ouagadougou had faced unrest in the past days because President Blaise Compaore’s attempt to extend his 27 years of rule through the legislature.[2] During the protests, the president […]
