Why African delegations in Sochi shocked with weapon selfies
On a continent desperate to ‘silence the guns’, images of officials admiring new weapons raise many questions. Scenes of African officials in Russia testing and [read more…]
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Gambia takes Rohingya’s case to the world court
DAKAR, Senegal — Gambia, the smallest country in continental Africa, took an unprecedented step this week in the realm of international justice: It filed a [read more…]
Elephants and other animals decimated by drought in Zimbabwe
Mana Pools, Zimbabwe (AP) — Weak from hunger and thirst, the elephant struggled to reach a pool of water in this African wildlife reserve. But [read more…]
The race against Africa’s ‘stubbornly high’ extreme poverty
While absolute poverty has been reducing rapidly globally, it remains stubbornly high in Africa, sobering facts and figures from research by the United Nations Economic [read more…]
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…]
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…]