Category: Rest of Africa

Or a rebellious “unconquerable,” beautiful young woman, who has explored all that life has to offer and returns to the basics. To the shy ex-boyfriend, who wears white shirts with vests, and oversized spectacles, and tells him she spent all the time running away because...

Our people lead precarious lives, even in the best of times, having to scrounge for the uncertain sustenance offered by outmoded agricultural and animal-husbandry practices that can no longer support a galloping demography pressing on a fragile ecology. What happened around Mount Hanang is just...

We live in multiple worlds, all at once, make contradictions work. We have traditions that compete with contemporary values, religions that have decimated indigenous belief systems and replaced most of them with alternatives like “witchcraft” that are devoid of the sa-cred.

The deadly Hamas incursion caught Israel flat-footed. It took the Israel Defence Forces an incredible 12 hours to respond to the massacres going on in their county.

In 1972, I was still in Primary school and, suddenly, in September of that year, the most pronounced words or name in my country became John Akii-Bua. The previous month, the military government had ordered Indians, who constituted one percent of our population, out of...

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"At around 11:00 am today, the Sierra Leone police served a summon to the former President of Sierra Leone, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma, inviting him to report at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department in Freetown within 24 hours," said the notice issued by the Ministry...

Currently underway in Gaborone, Botswana, the event has brought together hundreds of dignitaries across the continent including Heads of State, captains of industry, policymakers, entrepreneurs, influencers in the new digital space, and students in tertiary institutions of learning.

Last week, opposition politician and Boyo MP Evaristus Njong shocked parliament when he claimed 48 people had been killed in one incident in November alone. Those deaths were not isolated, as it has become routine since 2017, survivors say.

The ruling is the latest twist in a battle for control of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) amidst heightened political tensions in the mineral-rich nation.