Mogadishu now has its first motorcycle hailing app
You can now hail a motorcycle service in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The Go! app launched in the Indian Ocean city today…
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West Africa’s cocoa farmers are trapped by the global chocolate industry
The chocolate industry is worth more than $80 billion a year. But some cocoa farmers in parts of West Africa are poorer…
Meet the Sudanese Filmmakers making International Headlines
The year 2019 has been monumental for Sudan and its people with a revolution that led to the fall of…
Sex work legal in Senegal
Sex work was legalised in Senegal in 1969. Under Senegal’s Penal Code (articles 318 to 327) sex workers must be at least…
UN Assembly: Ethiopia’s president addresses Nile dam dispute
Every year in September, all 193 members of the United Nations meet at the General Assembly at the organisation’s headquarters…
A pan-African perspective on Rwanda through a critical review of Judy Rever, In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, Canada, Random House, 2018
The author argues that the Rwanda-Burundi’s dark colonisation past helps us understand the deep-rooted causes of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. A common narrative…