List of Africa articles
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GettyImages-682833726 Refugees Are Paying German Men to Claim Paternity of their Children
It’s unseemly, but legal -- and gives refugees a way to snag EU residency.
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REPORTAGE_Sobecki029 Somalia’s Land is Dying. The People Will Be Next.
Images from the front lines of Africa's battle with climate change.
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Garowe, Somalia: Abdulkadir Hasan Farah is a former pirate who now makes a living driving a taxi in Garowe. Growing up in the seaside community of Eyl, Abdulkadir followed his father into the fishing business. But the rise in illegal fishing made it increasingly difficult to earn a living. Twice foreign crews destroyed Abdulkadir’s nets, which were costly to replace. Broke and livid, he and some friends started taking guns out on their fishing trips to await foreign trawlers to hijack. Somali pirates are some of the world’s most infamous villains, immortalized by Hollywood and feared by ships traversing the waters off the Horn of Africa. But when these gangs first emerged they were just fishermen, made desperate by the destruction of their seas by illegal fishing and toxic waste dumping. International patrol vessels now guard Somalia's coastline, keeping the pirates at bay but doing nothing to address the return of illegal fishing activity by Asian and European companies. Until the root causes of piracy are addressed this threat will linger, waiting to reclaim its waters. (Photo by Nichole Sobecki) The Making of a Climate Outlaw
Extreme weather pushed a farmer and a fisherman to take up arms. These are their stories.
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Youthes raise wooden and metal sticks as running battles broke out between protesters and soldiers in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, on April 18, 2011 after President Goodluck Jonathan headed for an election win. Protesting youths challenged soldiers deployed to the streets, who sought to push them back. AFP PHOTO / SEYLLOU (Photo credit should read SEYLLOU DIALLO/AFP/Getty Images) The Gentleman’s Agreement That Could Break Apart Nigeria
The stability of Africa’s most populous nation has hinged on an unwritten political rule that might be coming apart.
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Outside Geerisa, Somalia: An armed policeman stands beside a riverbank swelled from a flash flood the night before that left several people dead. As Somalia gets hotter and drier, it is also more susceptible to deadly flash floods when eventual rain hits the parched earth. To be Somali used to mean to roam the land with your camels and others herds, surviving on their milk and meat and making home wherever the rains fell. Three out of four Somalis depend on the land to survive, either by herding or farming. Yet the rains are becoming less frequent and drought the norm. Land is degraded out of desperation, and people’s historic resilience is broken down. As access to water and pasture shrink, so do people’s options. The result is a growing wave of violence that swells with each short rain, dry well and failed crop. Men with guns are as common here as dusty roads, and as the fragile ties linking communities together break down the choice becomes clear: fight or die. (Photo by Nichole Sobecki) The Key to Saving Somalia is Gathering Dust in the British Countryside
What if there were a blueprint for climate adaptation that could end a civil war? An English scientist spent his life developing one—then he vanished without a trace.
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mugabe crop Mugabe and Entourage Live it Up in Cancún While Zimbabwe Suffers
What’s a $1,500-a-day travel allowance for hard-working flunkies?
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final_1tristan_kenya_1 Gunfight at the K.C. Corral
Why the Kenyan government won’t do anything to stop attacks on cattle ranchers, including the last remaining white "Kenyan cowboys.”
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Workers hold a donkey's hide before curing at a licensed slaughterhouse specialised in donkeys in Baringo, on February 28, 2017. The emergence of the global trade in donkey hide attributed mainly to the rise of Chinas middle class and an increased perception of the medicinal efficacy of a gelatine derived after boiling the hides, that is a key ingredient in a medicine called 'ejiao' has raised the price and the rate of slaughter of the animal. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) Chinese Smugglers Are Buying Up Hundreds of Thousands of Illegally Slaughtered African Donkeys
When they’re not smuggling ivory and rhino horn, Africa’s most notorious criminal syndicates are stealing farm animals to make a 2,500-year-old traditional Chinese remedy.
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school crop Students in Kenya Block Streets With Desks to Protest Their School’s Demolition
They're not letting class be dismissed without a fight.
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Protesters demonstrate against South African President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria on Nov. 2, 2016. This Is What Happens When a Family of Business Moguls Takes Over a Country
The Gupta family’s shadowy business empire is a symbol of all that’s wrong with South Africa.
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Passengers get their temperature measured as part of prophylactic measures against the spread of the Ebola virus upon their arrival at Boende's airport, on October 8, 2014. AFP PHOTO KATHY KATAYI (Photo credit should read KATHY KATAYI/AFP/Getty Images) Ebola Returns in Congo, a Test of ‘Next Time’
Is the global health community ready to stop another outbreak?
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: U.S. President Donald Trump salutes as an American flag passes the inaugural parade reviewing stand in front of the White House on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump was sworn in as the nation's 45th president today. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) From a Shining City on a Hill to a Banana Republic
The essential step to restoring faith in American democracy is authorizing an independent investigation into the president’s ties to the government of Russia.
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us forces somalia U.S. Navy SEAL Killed, Two Wounded, in Counter-Terror Raid in Somalia
Trump steps up the fight against terrorists in Africa and Middle East, leading to a wave of combat deaths.
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tillerson crop Rex Tillerson Spurns Africa In Botched Meeting with African Union Chief
Tillerson invited African Union chief Moussa Faki to Washington to meet, then backed out. His last-minute snub could sour U.S. ties with Africa.
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malaria First-Ever Malaria Vaccine To Begin Tests Next Year
If effective, it would be a big deal for Africa, which bears the brunt of malaria cases and deaths.
