Category: Africa

In the relatively shallow waters of the upper Gulf of California in Mexico a ghostly menace has driven the world’s smallest porpoise to the brink of extinction: gill nets. Only … Read More

COMMENT In response to Will Africa’s best shot at at Covid-19 vaccine be enough?, Mail & Guardian (12 October) Laura López González doubts that the only truly global vaccine-based solution … Read More

In 1983, the novelist Chinua Achebe published a short treatise called The Trouble With Nigeria. With characteristic acuity, his very first paragraph answers the question posed in the title.  “The … Read More

On Tuesday evening, as people moved online to stand in solidarity with peaceful #EndSars protesters who were attacked by heavily armed Nigerian security operatives at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos, … Read More

It is 59 years since Tanzania, a country that pioneered pan-Africanism, liberated herself from colonialism and struck her own path in defining freedom and independence. When the history of pan-Africanism … Read More

COMMENT Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) is notorious for extrajudicial killings, extortion and sexual abuse amongst other crimes. Almost every Nigerian will have a story to tell of being harassed … Read More

Limpopo has not been spared the devastation caused by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global economy, but efforts are now underway to revive the ailing business sector. … Read More

Growing Seamless transport modes October is marked as Transport Month in South Africa. It is hosted by government to remind us just how vital an intermodal transport network via sea … Read More

With competition among Earth’s telecoms providers as fierce as ever, equipment-maker Nokia announced its expansion into a new market this week, winning a deal to install the first cellular network … Read More

It’s called the accident of birth: the millions of poor black South Africans had no say in where they were born, or who their parents were. The same can be … Read More