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Tunga penetrans. (Linnaeus, 1758) Tunga penetrans is a species of flea also known as the jigger, jigger flea, chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, nigua, sand flea, or burrowing flea. It is a parasitic insect found in most tropical and sub-tropical climates. In its parasitic phase it has significant impact on its hosts, which include humans ...
Tungiasis. Tungiasis is an inflammatory skin disease caused by infection with the female ectoparasitic Tunga penetrans, a flea also known as the chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, jigger, nigua, sand flea, or burrowing flea (and not to be confused with the chigger, a different arthropod). The flea and the disease that it causes are found ...
Cordylobia anthropophaga, the mango fly, tumbu fly, tumba fly, putzi fly, or skin maggot fly, is a species of blow-fly common in East and Central Africa. It is a parasite of large mammals (including humans) during its larval stage. [1] C. anthropophaga is found in the tropics of Africa and is a common cause of myiasis in humans in the region.
The chigger, also known as redbugs, jiggers, and harvest mites are the parasitic larvae form of a mite in the Trombiculidae family. They are nearly invisible at around 0.15 to 0.3 millimeters and ...
Discrimination. Persecution of people with albinism (sometimes abbreviated PWA [1]) is based on the belief that certain body parts of albinistic people hold supernatural powers. Such beliefs are present in some parts of the African Great Lakes region, and have been exploited by witchdoctors who use such body parts as ingredients in religious ...
Aïgbado massacre. On 16 and 17 January 2022, at least 65 civilians were killed by Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group who were supported by armed forces in the villages of Aïgbado and Yanga near Bria in the Central African Republic during an operation against rebels from the Coalition of Patriots for Change.
Child sacrifice in Uganda. In Sub-Saharan Africa, "the practice of ritual killing and human sacrifice " continues to take place despite the illegality as described by the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and other human rights instruments. [1] In the 21st century, Nigeria, Uganda, Swaziland, Liberia, Tanzania, Namibia, Zimbabwe, [1 ...
Cannibalism in Africa. Sale of human flesh in the late 16th century. Engraving by Theodor de Bry illustrating Filippo Pigafetta 's Report of the Kingdom of Congo, which contains the oldest known account of cannibalism in Central Africa. Acts of cannibalism in Africa have been reported from various parts of the continent, ranging from ...