Africa’s second liberation will be women’s empowerment
The Women Advancing Africa (WAA) Forum launched this weekend in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam with a call on women to take centre...
The MDC outlines its role in the new Zimbabwe
Following a military coup last week in Zimbabwe, the president Robert Mugabe stepped down on Tuesday evening after 37 years in power, paving the...
Dear Mmusi, getting kicked out of Zambia does not make you...
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane was refused entry into Zambia last week and came across as a hero for trying to support issues...
Children fall victim to state ineptitude and capitalist land-grab in Kenya
Kenya found its way into the international media for all wrong reasons last week.
Images of Kenyan police brutally breaking up a demonstration by young children waving twigs,...
How Trump’s #MuslimBan affected one Sudanese PhD student
On 28 January 2017, US president Donald Trump issued an executive order, which restricts immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, suspends the US refugee programme...
Does the rest of Africa feel as removed from the ICC...
The trial of former Ivory Coast president, Laurent Gbagbo is currently underway at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Rumana Akoob reflects on the day...
Listening to the voices of the oppressed: lessons from India and...
The Other Universals Project aims to bring together scholars from all over the world to interrogate the question of oppression and discrimination by focusing on...
Editorial: Why should we turn the other cheek?
Between the deaths of 84 South Africans in the collapse of a building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Nigeria,...
Africa Votes: these are the elections to look out for on...
With no less than five national elections taking place this year, 2017 is going to be an important one for electoral politics in Africa....
Rwanda’s Healthcare Workers Determined To Save The Lives Of Newborn Babies
A new Unicef report reveals a horrifying statistic: in lower-income countries, 27 newborns out of every 1 000 die before they are four weeks old....
Saving lives – and limbs – on the DRC/CAR border
Shot in the leg by members of the Séléka militia troops, with a bullet that shattered her tibia, passed through her body and grazed...
Understanding the political – and name – situation in The Gambia
This past week, the international community stood astonished as Donald Trump was officially inaugurated as US president, while the same country that elected him...
South African government condemns violence in Kenya
Government has denounced the violence in Kenya following the murder of 36 Kenyan workers in an attack at the Mandera quarry. The bodies were...
European Governments Play Politics With Refugee Lives
On June 10, Matteo Salvini, Italy's new far-right interior minister, said he would not allow the MV Aquarius to dock on the Italian coast....
Gambian high school robotic team granted US visa at long last
Five teenagers will head over to The Gambia in mid-July for festival.
Nigeria’s police: few promises of reform have been kept a year...
Police brutality is not unique to Nigeria. The menace is almost universal. It is the level of accountability and transparency in policing that makes...
A new report says the Kenyan government is failing victims of...
The 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya left hundreds of people scarred and years later, the government has done very little to assist those affected....
