Women in Africa suffer emotional, mental and spiritual problems when their husbands die, making it near to impossible to enjoy the best of health due to the pressure to conform to widowhood practice. There are also implicit sanctions placed on the widow by society, which makes it difficult for women to express their viewpoints in … Read more
The barbaric treatment of widows in the Upper East Region through some widowhood rites has compelled thousands of women who lost their husbands to live a miserable life. TV3 news explored some of the challenges widows in the Upper East Region go through after the death of their husbands as the world marks International Widows … Read more
Joyce Dzidzor Mensah, a former ‘Heart to Heart’ HIV/AIDS Ambassador has shaved off all her hair as part of mourning rituals in honour of her late husband. Ms Mensah, who announced her husband’s death on Facebook a few days ago, again took to social media on Thursday, 11 May to announce that she had been … Read more
The loss of a spouse is one of life’s most stressful experiences and people who find themselves in such a situation suffer devastation that sometimes makes them mentally imbalanced. Widowhood is the state, and a widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man in that situation. Stressful period To … Read more
Monthly cash handouts could be given to men whose wives have died in a groundbreaking new policy in the state of Haryana. Widowers could benefit as early as next year, according to state Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar who said the plan was to roll out the changes once laws had been amended. At present, … Read more
An Indian state said Monday it was considering giving monthly cash handouts to men who lose their wives, a first for a country that traditionally only provides such payments to women. Haryana state chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said the plan was to roll out the changes next year once laws had been amended. “We … Read more
An HIV-positive Malawian man has been sentenced to 24 months in jail with hard labour, after being found guilty for having unprotected sex with newly bereaved widows, local journalist Alfred Guta has told the BBC. Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika had ordered the arrest of Eric Aniva, a sex worker known locally as a “hyena”, after … Read more
An HIV-positive Malawian man has been found guilty for having unprotected sex with newly bereaved widows. The practice of “widow cleansing”, when a widow must have sex after her husband dies, was outlawed a few years ago. Eric Aniva, a sex worker known in Malawi as a “hyena”, admitted in a BBC interview to having … Read more