Lifting the lid on the black box of informal trade in Africa
The share of internal trade in Africa remains low, as reflected by official statistics. This is despite numerous regional trade agreements that have led to […]
The share of internal trade in Africa remains low, as reflected by official statistics. This is despite numerous regional trade agreements that have led to […]
The 7 October vote is very unlikely to end the suspense and we will have to wait until the second round later in the month, […]
Twenty-eight years after independence, wealth in Namibia is still skewed along racial lines laid down in the colonial period. The level of inequality is one […]
Her eyes full of resolve and anguish, Samah Abdel Salam, a 36-year-old journalist working for the daily newspaper Al-Ahram explains to the family court judge […]
A lecture by Adam Hanieh sheds light on where the uprisings that started in North Africa and spread to the Middle East in 2011, are today.
Despite an arduous journey through known trafficking hotspots, Mustapha Sallah’s dream of a new life in Germany ended in Libya. “The day the police arrested […]
Under glass displays, nappies and coffee are sold as luxury items in the supermarkets of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. Customers’ baskets are mostly empty. […]
Like many of her art history classmates, Emmanuelle Nsun struggled to find a job after graduating from a university in Liège, a city in the […]
According to Amnesty International there are an estimated 30,000 living with albinism in Mozambique who faced discrimination and ostracization last year, while at least 13 […]
Africa’s efficacy in global climate negotiations may only have been the subject of a short session during a two-day workshop on climate change in Africa […]
In Syria, most babies are born by Caesarean section. There is no time for natural deliveries under the shelling. There are not enough doctors. Mothers […]
Industrial agriculture – farming that involves the intensive production of livestock, poultry, fish and crops – is one of the most environmentally destructive forms of […]