Diplomatic shows have always produced unforgettable scenes: Henry Kissinger shuttling between capitals; Kofi Annan staring down warlords; Francois Mitterrand lecturing African presidents about ...
As Kenya reflects on the Africa Sevens, the focus is shifting from immediate results to the broader trajectory. With consistent backing, growing experience, and improved infrastructure, the Lionesses ...
Rachael Mwikali remembers the hope she carried into the streets: to be heard and to see justice done. A long-time human ...
There’s a significant shift towards the recognition of customary rights and the strengthening of women’s land rights.
On November 22, 1992, Léon Mugesera, the MRND vice-president for Gisenyi prefecture, and a civil servant in the Ministry of the Family and the Promotion of Women, gave an incendiary speech at Kabaya, ...
Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...
The third narrative exposes the lie taught to Africa: that history’s smallest people — whose destruction parallels Africa’s ...
The militias are also accused of targeting Uvira's Banyamulenge population - Congolese Tutsis in South Kivu who are often perceived as supporting the Tutsi-commanded M23 - in acts of harassment and ...
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Filip Reyntjens and his colonial hangover

There are many ways to illustrate the lingering grip of colonial arrogance, but few are as undiluted, and as unmistakably absurd as the behaviour of certain European academics who still imagine that ...
In June, when Trump announced that he had brought peace to eastern Congo, he described it as “a glorious triumph.” But the ...
African Union Special Envoy for the Prevention of Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities Adama Dieng, awarded the Kemet Boutros Ghali Foundation for Peace and Knowledge Award in Cairo this week, explains ...
The Kenya Lionesses are through to the 2025 Africa Women’s Sevens final after outlasting a stubborn Uganda side 17-10 in a pulsating semifinal clash at the RFUEA Grounds on Sunday. Uganda struck first ...