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Kacaman: Burundi's YouTube star dies of malaria aged six
bbc
A six-year-old YouTube star
known in Burundi for his popular comedy sketches has died of malaria, his
manager says.
Darcy Irakoze, known as
Kacaman, was a primary school pupil who performed online and in theatres.
He contracted malaria on
Wednesday and died one day later.
Malaria has killed over 1,800
people in Burundi this year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
More than five million cases have been recorded in the country since January.
The disease is one of the main
killers of children in Africa, where it claims the lives
of more than 2,500 children each day, according to the UN children's agency, Unicef.
Darcy last performed on 2
August with Kigingi, a popular Burundian comedian, and was scheduled to perform
in another comedy event organised by Kigingi.
Kigingi told the BBC that the
death was a great loss personally and for Burundi's entertainment industry.
Darcy's death has sparked more
debate on the high number of malaria cases in the country this year.
The death toll for malaria in Burundi
is rivalling the Ebola outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo,
according to the WHO.
Malaria cases have reached
epidemic proportions, the organisation said in a report that has been disputed
by the Burundian government.
Health Minister Thaddée
Ndikumana told journalists that the figures were lower - 4.3 million recorded
cases, with 1,400 deaths this year.
He said this was a decrease
since 2017, which saw 4.9 million malaria cases and 4,300 deaths.
The WHO recorded nearly 220
million cases of the illness in 2017, with an estimated 435,000 deaths
worldwide. More than 90% of malaria cases and deaths were in Africa.
World’s first malaria vaccine is being piloted
in Malawi, Ghana and Kenya
Ten-year-old girls in Kenya put on contraceptives
Mercy Juma
BBC Africa, Nairobi
AFPCopyright: AFP
Girls appeared only to be
concerned about pregnancy and not infectionsImage caption: Girls appeared only
to be concerned about pregnancy and not infections
Some parents in Kenya are
putting children as young as 10 on contraceptives in an attempt to keep them in
school, the BBC has learnt.
Across the country one in five
girls between the ages of 15 and 19 are reported to be pregnant or have a child
already.
In Kwale County near the
coast, the rates of girls dropping out of school due to pregnancy are among the
highest in the country.
There, a reproductive health
nurse told the BBC that about 10% of girls who came for contraceptives were
below the age of 14.
He said it was worrying that
they were only concerned about pregnancy but not about contracting HIV or
sexually transmitted infections.
Proposals to introduce sex
education in schools have been harshly criticised by political leaders, and
termed immoral by religious leaders.
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'Half of Burundi population have malaria'
The parasite that causes
malaria is transmitted from the female mosquito's saliva
Some 5.7 million cases of
malaria have been recorded in Burundi in 2019, AFP news agency quotes the UN's
humanitarian agency as saying.
That's roughly half the
population of the country.
Malaria has killed more than
1,800 people in Burundi this year, AFP reports the United Nations Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest situation
report.
The death toll rivals that of
the Ebola outbreak in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo - where more
than 1,800 people have died in the last year.
OCHA reportedly said in May
that the outbreak had crossed epidemic proportions.
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