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Why Thomas Sankara was not liked by some of his contemporary African leaders
Maybe it has been the inability to overcome the truncation of life and verve that fed hope of a better Burkina Faso – a better Africa, largely – but Thomas Sankara continues to be regarded...
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This is why France is determined to keep soldiers in the Sahel region
Over 5,000 French soldiers will continue to stay in the troubled Sahel region in what has been dubbed Operation Barkhane, the anti-insurgent military operation aimed at subduing the threats posed by Islamist...
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Why does a small Moroccan town celebrate the life of rockstar Jimi Hendrix?
The farthest point of Morocco‘s western region of Meṛṛakec-Asfi is the Atlantic coast and in this region is a town named Essaouira founded as far back as the 18th century by Mohammed...
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British conglomerate to pay $9.7 million to 85 women in Kenya and Malawi abused by firm’s security guards
At least, 85 women in the East African nations of Kenya and Malawi will be compensated with $9.7 million in a settlement reached by Camellia Group, a British umbrella corporation whose subsidiaries in...
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As unrest hits Haiti, President Jovenel Moïse finds confidence in American support
Since January 13, 2020, Haiti‘s President Jovenel Moïse has, despite tides of protests and a mountain-pile of corruption allegations, been ruling by decree, after the country failed to hold...
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Tanzania is headed by a man with a Ph.D. in chemistry but the country’s COVID-19 response doesn’t show it
John Magufuli, Tanzania’s 61-year-old president, is very much a moralist. He will not apologize for grounding his politics in conservative Christian values and neither is anyone to expect that the...
