Pur Biel, Olympic refugee athlete: “The first time I really ran, I ran for my life”
I grew up with my family near the village of Nasir in South Sudan, surrounded by livestock and crops. Our ...
Tag: Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV inequality: new infections fall globally but rise in 28 countries
Global HIV figures in 2023 hit two historic milestones: it was the year in which fewer people contracted the infection ...
Why the IMF is failing countries like Kenya
The recent protests in Kenya remind us that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) It is not doing its job well. ...
Protests demanding Kenyan president resign gain momentum, killing 50 in a month
Thousands of Kenyans took to the streets of Nairobi and other Kenyan cities on Tuesday to demand the resignation of ...
Gambia’s parliament rejects bill seeking to decriminalize female genital mutilation
Gambia's parliament on Monday decided to maintain the ban on female genital mutilation, a practice that was declared illegal in ...
The big push African women need to escape poverty
What do poverty, climate change and conflict have in common? They are some of the greatest challenges facing Africa, and ...
Breast ironing to avoid being liked or ‘provoked’: the hidden torture of thousands of Nigerian girls
One day after Mabel Peter turned 10, three older women held her legs firmly while her mother pressed a burning ...
Torture, kidnapping, murder and rape: Africa’s wars push refugees onto the hellish Sahara route
The migration route that crosses the Sahara Desert towards the Mediterranean has been reactivated in the last three years following ...
Between bees and bullets: beekeeping that creates life on the margins of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
It is six in the morning and dawn is breaking in Mugunga, 10 minutes from the center of Goma, in ...
The mobile messages that managed to trigger Monique Muhaza’s bean crops in Congo
“I recently put into practice a tip that consisted of sowing corn in the first agricultural cycle and then replacing ...
