This is welcome news: An imam in central Afghanistan is giving full support to a government initiative to reduce maternal mortality by discouraging constant pregnancies and child marriage.
Mohammad Tawasoli, an imam at a mosque in Wardak Province, central Afghanistan, tells the local community to maintain a two-year gap between pregnancies and avoid child marriage – [...]

The little island with the funny three-legged flag has hitherto been popular as a tax haven, but it could soon attract visitors looking to download music from the internet.
Speaking at the MidemNet conference in Cannes, the Manx inward investment minister explained that the island has achieved 100% broadband penetration and now seeks that its citizens [...]

So says the head of Jamaica’s National Transformation Programme, which was established in the Office of the Prime Minister to counter rising violent crime. The church, he insists, can do a better job than the education system of inculcating personal morality.
DIRECTOR OF the National Transformation Programme (NTP), Reverend Merrick ‘Al’ Miller, is calling on [...]

Early childhood diet may influence future health — Science Daily, 15 Jan.

According to the UN, the West African country of Niger has the world’s highest incidence of early marriage. The custom of forcing young girls to marry was in the past limited to southern villages, but now it has spread to other areas and become a cross-border business transaction. Poverty-stricken families are selling their [...]