Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
The Zafimaniry people of Madagascar are confronting a difficult choice about their future as deforestation and globalization reshape their way of life. Fewer than 15,000 members of this forest-based community live in the “land of mist” on the southern edge of the country’s central highlands, where decades of heavy deforestation have left many hills bare. […]
TENDAIISHE BEREJENA & FLORENCE MALONGANE African indigenous food groups present an exciting area to explore when it comes to taste and nutrition. They may even offer potential as nutritional therapy for people with health problems. Foods like jute mallow, pearl and finger millet, wild medlar, caterpillars and bambara nuts all have nutritional properties that could […]
“I would rather die before I returned to Burundi.” CLAYTON BOEYINK, JEAN-BENOIT FALISSE & STEPHANIE SCHWARTZ For years, Burundian refugees living in Tanzanian camps have faced coercion by the Tanzanian authorities to return home to where they risk crushing poverty, government persecution, and the potential violence of local land conflicts. Now, yet again, the Tanzanian […]
Drought-hit counties face alarming malnutrition and water shortages as livestock perish and hunger intensifies. Severe drought has left more than two million Kenyans facing hunger with northeastern cattle-raising communities suffering the most, according to the United Nations. Disturbing images of starving livestock near the Somali border have recently underscored the devastating impacts of climate change […]
DOMINIKA TOMASZEWSKA-MORTIMER Relentless violence, famine and disease are fueling a rising death toll among children in Sudan, while attacks on healthcare and a lack of aid access hamper efforts to help them, UN aid agencies warned on Tuesday, February 10. As heavy fighting continues between former allies the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid […]
JAN-PHILIPP SCHOLZ The crossing between Western Africa and the Canary Islands is considered the most deadly sea migration route to the EU. People who attempt to cross face rough seas in overcrowded boats, and, in some cases, violence. The boat carrying Ismael Outtara and his family had been adrift in the Atlantic Ocean between southern […]
THOMAS COX If you are a Ghanaian boy of Akan origin who was born on a Sunday, it is very likely that you are named Kwasi. You share the same name as a bitter medicinal plant whose importance in the food and beverage industry is unrivaled as far as bitters go. The plant is a […]
Despite US pushback, officials in west Africa say controversial hepatitis B study on pause amid ethics concerns MELODY SCHREIBER US health officials insisted it was still on. African health leaders said it was cancelled. At the heart of the controversy is the west African nation of Guinea-Bissau – one of the poorest countries in the […]
US air strikes, rival military blocs and competing foreign backers are reshaping security in West Africa and pushing states closer to conflict. AYODELE S. OWOLABI After launching what he called “a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS [ISIL] terrorist scum” in northwest Nigeria on December 25, United States President Donald Trump promised “many more”, reaffirming […]
INES M. POUSADELA When Ugandans went to the polls on 15 January, the outcome was never in doubt. As voting began, mobile internet services ground to a halt, ensuring minimal scrutiny as President Yoweri Museveni secured his seventh consecutive term. Far from offering democratic choice, the vote reinforced one of Africa’s longest-running presidencies, providing a […]