Global Fund to Fight AIDS

Nigeria Attracts Latest Criticism for Anti-Gay Laws

• January 15, 2014

In an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Michel Sidibé, the executive director of UNAIDS, the organization called AIDS-Free World wants answers to questions about how the UN will deal with Nigeria after the adoption of a sweeping law broadening the criminalization of homosexuality. Nigeria has the second-largest number of people …

Africa, Human Rights

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Business in Kinshasa Rolls On While Eastern Congo Simmers

Christina Juan

• September 11, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Democratic Republic of the Congo is riddled with negative media attention. In the midst of virtually persistent conflict in eastern Congo since 1993, what goes on far away in Kinshasa, the capital of this massive country? Economic reforms, health care developments and a culture of music and creativity are providing …