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Many burning issues at the “headless” ICC, one of them it’s leadership

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November 29, 2016

The discourse about South Sudan these days is whether a genocide is in the making. The discussion is not about politics, not about power...

Once more thousands threatened by drought in Kenya

November 16, 2016

In traffic this morning a mighty bull caught up with me. The throbbing cars were soon surrounded by skinny beasts, a long tongue licked...

How Eritrean revolution produced an undemocratic and closed society

November 7, 2016

By Dawit Mesfin The book is an attempt to unravel why this small country with such a rich cultural heritage turned into one of the...

Eritrea has become a catastrophe

September 25, 2016

By Abraham Zere, head of Pen Eritrea It initially sounded like a joke; gradually it got serious and then tragic. A decade and a half...

Fifteen years ago, a deadly silence descended on Eritrea

September 23, 2016

The Eritrean exile Dawit Mesfin is a bitter man. "There is no news at all of the prisoners”, he says from London. "They have...

Who tells the African story?

September 3, 2016

Who tells the African story?

Sugar daddies are on the rise

August 14, 2016

Rwanda, around Kigali, September 2012 Girls at a private school. They say that all their friends have sugar daddies Photo: Petterik Wiggers/Panos Pictures Boys loiter at their usual...

Deep rooted historic schism fuels the fighting in South Sudan

July 18, 2016

Monday 18th of July: After the serious fighting that took place around the fifth independence anniversary of South Sudan on the 9th of July some...

How a village in Sierra Leone fought effectively against Ebola long before the aid workers arrived

April 20, 2016

Villagers in Sierra Leone effectively fought Ebola when the aid workers were not around

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