Africa
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Viewpoint: Why Ethiopia’s Tigray region is starving, but no famine declared
A report from Ayder Referral hospital in Tigray’s capital city, Mekelle, this week described children dying of starvation. Alex de…
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Relaunching Negotiations over Western Sahara
Yet outside powers would be wrong to assume that it will not escalate. ICG With U.S. support, the new UN…
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Algeria: Effort to Dissolve Prominent Civic Association
(Beirut) – Algerian authorities should drop their effort to dissolve a prominent civil society group over alleged violation of the law on…
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Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature
The Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the…
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War crimes likely committed since 2016, UN probe finds
War crimes and crimes against humanity have likely been committed in Libya by all parties to conflict since 2016 including…
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How Nadifa Mohamed became the first Somali person to be short-listed for the Booker Prize with new novel, The Fortune Men
She didn’t know at the time, the discovery would lead her to write what’s now become the first novel written…
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Want to know about vaccine rollouts in Africa?
There has been a lot of focus on COVID-19 vaccine inequalities between high-income and low- and middle-income countries. Catherine Kyobutungi…
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The cruel sea
First there’s only darkness as we pound across black water. Suddenly, the boat appears, illuminated in the moonlight. Eric Campbell…
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Africa: Escaping 9/11’s Long Shadow
As part of our series The Legacy of 9/11 and the “War on Terror”, Comfort Ero and Murithi Mutiga say…
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Morocco’s Elections Prove Democracy Can Work with Islam
They couldn’t be more wrong. Ahmed Charai The National Interest The Taliban’s seizure of Kabul and appointment of a cabinet…
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South Africa danger zone: Living in a ‘hijacked’ building
Photographer Shiraaz Mohamed gained the trust of some who live there to find out more about their home in one…
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Egypt’s Court sentences 3 members of “Daesh of Libya” group to death
Three other defendants in the case received life terms and four others got 15 years rigorous imprisonment each. Egypt Today…
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Hakainde Hichilema and the future of African leadership
This is an exciting opportunity for change in Zambia and has raised hopes that it may usher in a wave…
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Zimbabwe arrests after child bride dies giving birth at church shrine
Anna Machaya, 15, is reported to have died and been buried last month at a church shrine in the eastern…
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Dead white man’s clothes
Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill, creating an environmental catastrophe on the other…
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UN condemns child marriage in Zimbabwe as girl dies after giving birth
The United Nations has condemned the practice of child marriage in Zimbabwe following the death of a 14-year-old girl after she…
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