Food

Showcasing Afrika’s food shortage crisis while demanding government policies that will spur agricultural revolution and ensure food self-sufficiency

Locusts infestation

Desert Locusts Invasion Cause Panic In Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Region

4 years ago
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — At first glance, Hilder Tarimo, a local farmer in a sleepy Ngai Nairobi village in Tanzania’s Siha district, thought the dark dense blot darkening...
Anna Guwe and her maize crops

Zimbabwe Farmers Embrace Conservation Agriculture To Beat Effects Of Climate Change

4 years ago
Marange, Zimbabwe — It is a windy day in Marange, Chanakira village. Small clouds scuddle the blue sky giving it a blurred look. About 110 kilometers southwest of Mutare, Norah...
Smart Foods Recipes improve nutrition in Tanzania schools

Researchers Tout Healthy Food Recipes To Boost Nutrition, Cut Costs In Tanzania’s Schools

4 years ago
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...
Birds destroy rice plantation by feeding on it.

Kenyans Stare At Hunger As Birds Destroy Rice

5 years ago
Kisumu, June 1 — At midday in the West Kano irrigation scheme in Kenya’s Nyando Sub-county of Kisumu County, Erick Otieno has just received his lunch from his employer...
The coronavirus outbreak has forced many to stay home, driving up the demand for tea.

Tea farmers in Kenya find reprieve as international market opens up for their produce.

5 years ago
Kericho, April 20 — On a fine Monday morning, and as the sun beats down on the tea farms in Kaptoroi village in Kenya’s Kericho County, Sarah Keter plucks...
The coronavirus outbreak stops Chinese fish imports, as business booms for Kenyan fish traders.

Fish traders in Kenya’s lakeside city of Kisumu enjoy an economic boom amid Coronavirus

5 years ago
Kisumu, April 8 — At 7 am in the morning, fishermen are docking in their fishing boats on the Dunga Beach in Kisumu’s Lake Victoria shores in western Kenya....
Farmers working on pawpaw fruit trees.

Could tree regeneration hold out hope for Africa’s vulnerable smallholder farmers?

5 years ago
Homa Bay, Kenya MARCH 4, 2020 — With more than half of the estimated 2.2 billion people to be added to the global population by 2050 expected to be...

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A police officer in camouflage detains a male protester wearing a red beret as a cameraman records the event during a youth-led demonstration against a proposed finance bill.

The New Frontline: Youth Uprisings Across Africa Spark A Fight For Democracy And Dignity

2 months ago
Across the African continent, an unprecedented wave of youth-led uprisings is shaking the pillars of political regimes that have held power for decades. In...
Heads of State for Burkina Faso, Captain Ibrahim Traoré (left) and Colonel Assimi Goïta of Mali (right).

Africa’s Coup Governments: When Elections Become An Exhausted Idea Confirming Democratic Fatigue

11 months ago
The trending successful military coups in West Africa today indicate the continuation of political processes and leadership by another method. Their executions have been...
The Labour Party logo and Peter Obi

Labour Party And The Future Of Radical Politics In Nigeria

11 months ago
Needless to say, the 2023 elections happened amid overwhelming disillusionment with the system and popular discontent with the major establishment political parties—the ruling All...
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Political Instability, Intra-state Conflicts, And Threats To AfCFTA Agreement’s ‘Made In Africa’ Aspirations

1 year ago
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is arguably the African Union’s (AU) biggest project since the launch of the continent’s Agenda 2063 in...
Picture of journalists and victims of forced evictions in Mosafejo-Oworonshoki

How The Lagos State Government Demolished Houses Of Low-Income Earners In Mosafejo-Oworonshoki, Forced Over...

1 year ago
In a sudden turn of events, piles of wreckage became the only remnants of what used to be homes to over 7,000 people, women,...
African leaders pose for a photo in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Russia-Africa Relations: Africa’s Entanglement With Politics Of Patronage Without Liberation

1 year ago
There are intense political and intellectual debates unfolding in Africa. Since February 24 last year, when war broke out in Europe following Russia’s special...
Protestors at a mine at the settlement of Uis in Namibia's Erongo region

Namibia Lithium Battle

1 year ago
On June 27, 2023, a judge of the High Court of Namibia, Ramon Maasdorp, ruled that the Southern African country’s Minister of Mines and...
Operation Dudula supporters marched in the Johannesburg Central Business District.

Operation Dudula

1 year ago
There is no direct translation for the word Dudula in the English language, but the president of the organization that started off as a...
Lunch hour in Windhoek's Central Business District (CBD) with residents walking through Post Street Mall, Windhoek's main business center..

The Tragedy Of Namibia’s Working Poor

1 year ago
At the dawn of independence in 1990, a public servant working in an entry-level position for the state could afford to buy themselves a...
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) celebrate 10 years at the FNB stadium in Johannesburg.

Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime

1 year ago
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters...
Monica Geingos, First Lady of the Republic of Namibia and President of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development.

Organization Of African First Ladies For Development

1 year ago
The Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) launched the #WeAreEqual Campaign on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at a banquet ceremony held in...
Dumisani Baleni EFF South Africa Communications officer for Gauteng Province, South Africa.

EFF Confronts Racism In South African Schools

1 year ago
An incident involving a thirteen-year-old girl child at the Crowthorne Christian Academy in South Africa led to the schools' closure and the re-sparking of...
African leaders discussed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) at the 36th African Union (AU) Summit held on 18th February 2023 at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Africa’s Rebirth At 60: Carrying Noble Ideas That Nobody Is Willing To Implement

1 year ago
To most academics, intellectuals, and pragmatists advocating for a genuine Pan-African renaissance six decades after the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU,...
Photo Of newly inaugurated President, Bola Tinubu, and immediate past President, Muhammad Buhari.

Tinubu’s Inauguration: End Of An Error, The Dawn Of Calamity

1 year ago
"I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015." President Buhari ended his farewell speech with this...
Zimbabwe’s President posing for a photo with his guests.

IMF And World Bank: The ‘Bad Samaritans’ And Neoliberals Cheating Africa Into A Cycle...

1 year ago
The Western liberal consensus has long been intervening and interfering in Africa. The first form of intervention was through the slave trade from the...