Same-sex couples are a step closer to being able to share social security benefits after one government agency changed its policy in May 2013. Same-sex marriage has been legal for three years in Mexico City.
Without access to mobile phone networks or radio broadcasts, villagers in the Ngolo tribal areas of Cameroon say that the government has forgotten them. The government has ambitious plans for development by 2035.
Medical school graduates often have their pick of job opportunities in well-outfitted urban hospitals in Ghana. Meanwhile, the ratio of doctors serving the population of the rural Upper East region is just one for every 35,010 citizens.
The governor and first lady of Nasarawa state in central Nigeria are promoting skills trainings through public and private programs. Half of the state’s population is illiterate, and more than 35 percent is unemployed.
A group of mostly women remember victims of gender-based killings by embroidering their stories on handkerchiefs and displaying them at local demonstrations and events. There were more than 34,000 feminicides in Mexico from 1985 to 2009.
