The Embobut Forest, a water-rich, 22,000-hectare protected public forest in Kenya’s Elgeyo Marakwet County, has been home to the Sengwer tribe since at least the 1920s.…
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Thanks to a law passed in 2011, millions of Cameroonians living abroad are licensed to exercise their civic duty on Sunday, October 7 as the country…
On a continent of 54 sovereign states and several territories made up of at least 3,000 distinct ethnic groups speaking over 2,000 languages, what makes the…
Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Denis Mukwege has dedicated his award to women around the world who have been wounded in wars and those “confronted with violence…
It’s not unusual to find everyday products that are overpriced because they’re branded “made from natural sources,” “organic” or “handmade in small batches.” But an African…
1. Mauritius Doing Business world rank: 25 Days to start a business: 6 Days to get electricity: 81 Days to register property: 17 *It takes men…
Lions once roamed free across the grasslands of Africa. These days, only about 20,000 of them are left on the continent – a reduction of approximately…
Zimbabwe has begun an oral vaccination drive to curb a cholera outbreak which has claimed at least 49 lives over the past month, a WHO official…
Cost of governance is at an all-time high across Africa, new reports suggest. But are Africans getting value for money from those in government, especially parliamentarians…
The deportation of Kenya’s Professor Patrick Mulumba by the Zambian government over subtle fears expressed by its trading partner, the Chinese, that a scheduled speaking event…