Until recently, Molly struggled to imagine life beyond the end of each repetitive day: work in someone else’s fields and earn enough to eat, rinse, repeat.…
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Half-man, half-beast, the tall African statues dominate a busy gallery in Paris’ Quai Branly museum. But few of the visitors are aware they are looking at…
It is a conflict at once cultural, generational and political: rap music in DR Congo is staging a frontal assault on rumba, accusing its ageing stars…
In 2016, Sierra Leone’s Human Rights Commission lashed at the squalor and lack of rehabilitative or educational programmes in the country’s prisons as ‘inhumane.’ These pictures…
A perpetually unctuous, self-lubricating latex developed by a team of scientists in Boston could boost the use of condoms, they reported Wednesday in the journal Royal…
One Saturday night in August, Deurick van Blerk, 26, climbed into his small boat off the coast of Cape Town on another of his illegal fishing…
Life fell apart last week for mother of four Dorcas who was among 200,000 Congolese attacked and then forcibly thrown out of neighbouring Angola despite having…
An aerial view shows Malian workers loading sand collected from the Niger river bed into a truck at the port of Bamako on. Increasing construction in…
In the Malian capital of Bamako, eight young dancers from all over the country have been taking part in Faso Don, a six week-long dance-based reality…
An 11-man entourage – travelling on a government plane – landed in Viracopos International Airport in Campinas in Sao Paulo. Upon searching the plane, police found…