As Kenyan Maasai abandon girls’ ritual cutting, elders lead the way
In the days leading up to Feb. 6, more than a thousand Maasai people traveled by foot to Loita Hills, in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. [read more…]
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U.S. Spent Millions Training Cameroon Forces to Hunt Boko Haram. They’re Hunting Gays Instead.
UYO, Nigeria—The U.S. State Department announced in early February it was halting some military assistance to Cameroon—terminating a C-130 aircraft training program, stopping deliveries of [read more…]
Calls for war court in Liberia
In July 1990, Victoria Duo sheltered along with two thousand others, her toddler strapped to her back, in St Peter’s Lutheran Church in Monrovia. “In [read more…]
Nairobi attack shows attempts to neutralize Africa’s terror threat have failed
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)The terrorists used ammunition with such merciless abandon their automatic gunfire tore through the Nairobi dawn like a chainsaw in long screaming bursts. [read more…]
What would make a woman go back to Boko Haram? Despair
In northeastern Nigeria, the militant group exploits a broken social system. There are lessons here for the rest of the world Zahra and Amina seem [read more…]
How Loans Help Kenyan Women Turn Idle Land into Gold
TULUROBA, KENYA — For the women of Tuluroba village’s self-help group, the goal was simple: use their combined savings to buy cattle, fatten them and [read more…]
To be Gay and out in rural Uganda? For some, it feels less impossible
The tight-knit relationships of small communities can be difficult for people who feel they don’t fit in. But those same relationships can be the building [read more…]
China-Africa Relations Hold Fast , AS US Tries ‘Debt-Trap Diplomacy’ Rhetoric
When U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton rolled out the United States’ new Africa strategy last week, he used the occasion to identify China as [read more…]
The Quest for a Moral Diamond
The Peace Diamond, and the miner who found it, are at the center of a new push to redeem African diamond mining. From a pickup [read more…]
Mauritanians who sought refuge in U.S. face deportation, then jail
NOUAKCHOTT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mo had nothing but a set of jail clothes and the name of a distant cousin when he boarded the [read more…]