Tag: Africa

Germany has become the latest European country to announce a potential ban on the import of hunting trophies. The move ...

The UK's minister for Africa has condemned talks between the Malian government and a Russian mercenary firm. In a statement, ...

A recent trophy hunting controversy in Zimbabwe has strengthened the argument that the practice is damaging to conservation. In the ...

Millions of vaccines manufactured in South Africa are being sent to Europe despite concerns about global vaccine inequality. 32m doses ...

Major NGOs that run clinics in Kenya and Tanzania also pledge action against ‘abhorrent’ practices to ‘change’ individuals’ sexual orientation ...

On 24 February, National Security raided the offices of LGBT+ Rights Ghana. It came not long after the organisation opened a ...

Armed security forces have suppressed a planned peaceful protest in Lagos, Nigeria. End SARS protesters planned to occupy Lekki toll ...

Angola has introduced a new penal code which decriminalises same-sex relationships and prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. The colonial-era code, which ...

Exactly 60 years ago today, Congolese national liberation leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. Those responsible were most likely troops of ...

If 2020 has taught people anything, it's that our relationship with the rest of the natural world needs to change. ...

The continent of 1.3 billion people is being warned against ‘prevention fatigue’.

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front warned such strikes would continue ‘unless the attacks against us stop’.

On 12 November, three activists scaled the Houses of Parliament to hang an oversized open letter to the people of ...

In his youth, Professor Yash Tandon was a presidential adviser to Uganda's government soon after the country's political independence. Because ...

The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention said it is good to plan for a ...

Boris Johnson unveiled his proposed coronavirus (Covid-19) recovery plan on 1 July. He promised to splash cash on hospitals, schools ...

John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that testing capacity is ‘very limited’.