In the heart of West Africa, Ghana has long been celebrated as a beacon of democracy and peace. But beneath this shining image lies a growing threat—one that transcends politics, tribe, and class: the ...

It is now almost three decades, when the crisis in violatile great lake Eastern regional city of Goma in Democratic Republic of the Congo started, with heavy violence carried out by the brutal ...

The spate and intensity of incidences of  domestic violence in Nigeria  are exacerbating the climate of fear and killings in ...

"Having the wrong Education as a start in his race career, the negro has become his own worst enemy. Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from the negros. Booker ...

He found himself going back and forth to sub-Saharan and East Africa to do humanitarian work. “A lot of displaced people there,” he said. “A lot of stories.” So almost on a whim ...

In a little-known 1957 conflict, Moroccos Liberation Army staged a bold offensive against Spanish colonial rule in Ifni and ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

As critics decry efforts to dismantle the humanitarian aid agency as a constitutional crisis and self-inflicted wound, a ...

Africa is often synonymous with its drylands that cover two-thirds of the continent. Relief is brought through rainfall ...

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 3 (Reuters) - South Africa's foreign ministry said on Monday that its expropriation act was not exceptional, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would cut off funding to ...

The World Bank estimates that by 2050 there will be 86 million internally displaced climate migrants in sub-Saharan Africa (Rigaud et al., 2018). In East Africa alone, there will be an estimated 10.1 ...

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