There are twelve different colours in the colour pencils pack but one stands out for Melissa Obeng-Kyereh, a 12 year old Ghanian girl. She barely...
Category - Africa
Stories and features from across the continent
Tumal Orto’s headgear could be merely a traditional regalia of the Gabra community in Kenya. However, at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, it is a crown of...
Climate change and urbanization are together increasing water scarcity where the water demand exceeds availability for the world’s cities...
Climate crisis is and still remains to pose a great threat. It is more than numbers, it is more than National Determined Contributions (NDCs)...
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...