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Category - Africa
Stories and features from across the continent
Africa
How to Smuggle, Counterfeit and Steal: Cigarette Smuggling in the Busia (Kenya – Uganda) Border
Smuggling and Counterfeiting is a big threat to local import businesses in Kenya.
Africa
Timber Logging and Crime: How Rosewood is Stolen in Cameroon, Laundered in Nigeria and Exported to China
By Christian Locka As rosewood is getting rarer in Nigerian forests, traffickers wanting to continue to satisfy demands by the Chinese, have been...
By John Dell’Osso and Douglas Gillison If you live near buried treasure—huge deposits of oil and gas, eye-popping reserves of gold, copper, bauxite...
By Thomas Bwire “Don’t Kill me daddy Don’t Kill me, Don’t Kill me daddy was the screaming sound of the boy as I beat him with a belt without mercy...
By Maurice Oniango Benjamin Menza was walking along a small bushy footpath on their farm in Watamu on a relatively warm evening when he suddenly felt...
By Christabel Ligami Margaret Lodomo is a 62-year-old, reformed circumciser from Karon, Kapenguria in the Rift Valley region of Kenya. Lodomo...
By Kabugi Mbae If Equatorial Guinea’s president Teodoro Obiang will still be in power by August 3rd 2023, he will have broken the record of...
By Kabugi Mbae Obesity rates in sub-Saharan Africa are shooting up fast. With many countries’ health systems ill-equipped to tackle the diseases that...
As Uganda prepared itself for elections in January with an increasingly tense political atmosphere in the country, something else was simmering...