Farmers face challenges with elephants raiding crops and sometimes causing harm ZELIPHA KIROBI & NICHOLAS KOMU A deadly conflict is escalating in Kenya’s Taita hills, where elephants, driven by ancient migratory paths, are increasingly encroaching upon farmland, destroying crops and posing a grave threat to human life. For farmers like 68-year-old Richard Shika, these encounters […]
Aug 24 2025 | Posted in
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South Africa has rejected a US government report accusing it of moving towards land seizures from white farmers, calling the allegation “deeply flawed” and “inaccurate”. The claim was made in the latest annual human rights report from the US State Department, which has faced criticism for softening language on the abuses of Washington’s allies while […]
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France’s President Emmanuel Macron has formally recognized what he called France’s “repressive violence” in Cameroon during and after the country’s fight for independence in the late 1950s – a rare admission of a long-overlooked part of France’s colonial history. In a letter to Cameroonian President Paul Biya, published on Tuesday, August 12, but sent last […]
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ASHLEY LIME Six people have been killed after a light aircraft belonging to a medical charity crashed in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, according to a local official. Charity Amref Flying Doctors said the Cessna plane took off from Wilson airport on Thursday, August 7 afternoon and was en route to Hargeisa in Somalia when it crashed […]
Aug 12 2025 | Posted in
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Several other government officials among the victims of the crash that occurred Wednesday morning, August 6 A helicopter crash has killed all eight people on board, including the nation’s defense and environment ministers, according to Ghana’s government. Defense Minister Edward Omane Boamah and Environment Minister Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed were among the victims of the crash […]
Aug 12 2025 | Posted in
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The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take them. But Eswatini says it will send them home. JOHN ELIGON & HAMED ALEAZIZ The tiny African kingdom of Eswatini announced on Wednesday, July 16 that it would repatriate the five migrants who had been deported […]
Jul 27 2025 | Posted in
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For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a tragic story of enslavement and commerce from the time of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. ROFF SMITH For three weeks, since the Portuguese São José Paquete d’Africa lifted anchor in Mozambique, the 512 enslaved […]
Jul 27 2025 | Posted in
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French government says it is open to dialogue but does not acknowledge responsibility in letter seen by the Guardian EROMO EGBEJULE More than a century after its troops burned villages and looted cultural artifacts in the quest to include Niger in its west African colonial portfolio, France has signaled willingness over possible restitution but is […]
Jul 27 2025 | Posted in
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President Biya is the world’s oldest serving head of state and could stay in office until he is nearly 100 if he wins the October election. Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, who is 92 years old, has announced plans to run for an eighth term in this year’s presidential election on October 12. Biya, who is […]
Jul 27 2025 | Posted in
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MOSES KOLLIE GARZEAWU Liberia’s former President William Tolbert has had a symbolic reburial, 45 years after he was murdered during a coup and his body was believed to have been dumped in a mass grave. Ten days after the president’s killing, following trials by a kangaroo court, 13 of his cabinet were stripped, tied to […]
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