Poor Infrastructures, Rapid Urban Sprawl Increase Flood Risk In Tanzania’s Largest City
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — The breath-taking moment showing a family taking refuge on a rooftop as floodwater rapidly rushing into a submerging home at a low-lying Msasani neighborhood...
US Military Presence In Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Making SADC Volatile
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Some soldiers were on the rampage in Wa, the capital...
Oil Money Heralds Trouble For Uganda’s Indigenous Bagungu Tribe, Environment
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Indigenous communities in Tanzania map own land to deter foreign grabbers
MANYARA, TANZANIA — As you trek down a rocky terrain dotted with thorny shrubs, that form a rosette of gray-green leaves with sharp spines on the tips, you can...
Zimbabwe’s timber riding to extinction
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Towards The Progressive Acquisition Of Consciousness
Africans and other blacks abroad need to develop a historical consciousness that enables them to revisit their forefathers’ history to validate the true journey of the black race. Slavery,...
Tea farmers in Kenya find reprieve as international market opens up for their produce.
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South Sudanese TV journalist ditches own job to join rebel movement
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — A swell of laughs and chatter fills the air as men and women dine and wine.
The spectacle grabs the attention of a group of...
The Ghanaian Christians Working For The Salvation Of A Dying Earth
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Kenya’s Unlikely COVID-19 Hero
Nyeri, Kenya — On a chilly Tuesday morning at the Consolata Mission Hospital in Kenya’s Nyeri County, Jane Kagwiria attends to patients and visitors at the gate as they...
Researchers Tout Healthy Food Recipes To Boost Nutrition, Cut Costs In Tanzania’s Schools
MANYARA — The tolling of the afternoon bell marks the end of lessons at Babati Day Secondary School in Tanzania’s northern Manyara region.
It ushers in a moment of joy...
Fish traders in Kenya’s lakeside city of Kisumu enjoy an economic boom amid Coronavirus
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Kenyan Health Workers In The Pandemic Dance To Ease Their Minds
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“The root of the disease was political. The treatment could only be political. Of course, we encourage aid that aids us in doing away with aid. But in general,...
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The trending successful military coups in West Africa today indicate the continuation of political processes and leadership by another method. Their executions have been systematic; citizens protest against the...
Looming Conflict As Loggers Scramble For Waning Forest
Mzuzu — Around 1964, Malawi’s first Head of State introduced an ambitious project to turn one of the mountain ranges in the country into a forest. What followed was...
Ghanaian Women Band Together Under The Shadow Of Sexual Violence
A group of women gather on a synthetic lawn one Sunday in Labone, a suburb of Accra.
Clad in sports gear, they pick up little tricks from an instructor to...
Zimbabwe struggles with rural, urban poverty
GOKWE, Zimbabwe — A one-room home structure made of poles plastered with mud, roofed with a single zinc sheet, with a gaping wooden door stands side by side with...
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