People in East Africa

  • Rwanda among safest countries globally

    RWANDA, 2015/09/29 Rwanda has been ranked part the safest nations in the world that provide conducive atmosphere to people who walk alone at night, according to the Gallup World Law and Order 2015 Statement. Gallup's Law and Order Index is a worldwide measure that gauges people's sense of personal security in their neighbourhoods and their personal experiences with crime and law enforcement. The statement released on Friday named Rwanda part few nations globally that have tightened safety and security of citizens hence enabling people to freely walk alone at night.

  • Africa’s demographics are driving global population growth

    AFRICA, 2013/09/15 Sewage spilling into the streets, shacks for homes and shanty towns stretching into the horizon. This is New York in the late 1800s, its grim scenes famously captured by local reporter Jacob Riis, who took chance of newly-invented flash photography to portray the city’s hard scrabble life The same was authentic of London, its own miserable conditions captured by the pen of Charles Dickens. The images conjured are little different to what one finds today across a lot of developing cities, whether Mumbai or Jakarta. And the experience of the New Yorks and Londons shows that a lot of of today’s most liveable cities were once anything but. So, how do cluttered urban sprawls become cities? And how do Africa’s people trends compare to other regions?

  • Famine and severe food insecurity in Somalia

    SOMALIA, 2013/07/21 Almost 260,000 Somali people, half of them children, died of dire hunger from 2010 to 2012, greatly additional than was feared at the time, an official statement said. Half of those who died were children aged below five -- almost a fifth of that age group died in the hardest-hit sector-- and UN officials admitted they could have done additional to prepare for the famine.  "Famine and severe food insecurity in Somalia claimed the lives of about 258,000 people between October 2010 and April 2012, inclunding 133,000 children under five," read the statement. 
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