Migrants who fail to reach Europe are not warmly welcomed home
THIAROYE-SUR-MER, Senegal — The fishing village has long sent its men to sea, but after foreign trawlers scraped the bottom clean, the men began coming [read more…]
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Africa should stop funding medical tourism
Robert Mugabe died on 6 September 2019 in a foreign hospital – linking his fate with those of millions of Zimbabweans who fled their homeland [read more…]
Vigilantes join forces to stop Kenyan families losing donkeys to China
NAIVASHA, Kenya, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kenyan families left destitute by the theft and slaughter of thousands of donkeys by criminal networks supplying skins for [read more…]
Gold, weapons, fighters: Sudanese Janjaweed’s international path to power
Now better known as the RSF, Sudan’s fearsome paramilitary group has a long history of involvement in foreign countries that has continued unabated since the [read more…]
Zimbabwe seeks to overturn a ban on the ivory trade?
Zimbabwe, along with three other Southern African nations, has submitted a proposal for the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Specials of Wild Fauna and [read more…]
Gifted young Kenyan chess champion kept in check by the bureaucracy
MUKURU KWA NJENGA, Kenya — With a nonchalance only teenagers have, the 13-year-old shook out the contents of a tote bag onto the table in [read more…]
The Great Elephant Debate: Legalising ivory trade will be a giant mistake
For most experts concerned about the survival of elephants, the idea that a global ivory market could be part of the solution was discarded as [read more…]
Despite resistance,LGBTQ rights have gotten better in Africa
Botswana’s High Court ruled for LGBTQI rights in the southern African country on Tuesday — another historic decision in favor of equality, diversity and dignity. [read more…]
Africa’s largest cold war battle ground could become an elephant sanctuary
It was the biggest battle fought on African soil since the Second World War: a titanic clash in a civil war that left swathes of Angola [read more…]
The new frontier of cold war
Last week, the 12th US-Africa Business Summit, a high-level event attended by 11 African heads of state and government and some 1,000 business leaders, was [read more…]