The first recorded cases of covid-19 in South Africa and Kenya in March 2020 spawned a maelstrom of tweets reflecting some people’s fears and anxieties about the virus, as well as surfacing other deeply rooted prejudices.
Female MPs in Africa have a lot to fear with 80% of them having experienced psychological violence in parliament, 67% having been subjected to sexist behavior or remarks and 39% of them having faced sexual violence. Disturbingly, the main perpetrators of this violence are their male counterparts.
Matt Hancock, the former UK health secretary who was ousted earlier this year after an affair with an aide, has lost another big job.
When the Kenyan government launched a centralized digital identity project in 2019 to store the biometric data of its nearly 50-million population, the initiative was met with massive resistance from digital rights advocates who said it raised questions over human rights, ethics, and privacy.