List of Africa articles
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foreign-policy-invisible-children Kony 2017: From Guerrilla Marketing to Guerrilla Warfare
Five years after its viral video broke the internet, Invisible Children is on the front line of a covert war against the Lord’s Resistance Army.
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trump_crocker While the Trump Team Fiddles, the World Burns
Across Africa and the Middle East, a vacuum of U.S. leadership is exacerbating crises and emboldening abusers.
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zimbabwe-crop The Do’s And Don’t’s of Planning Birthday Parties: Robert Mugabe Edition
Who better to guide your birthday party planning than nonagenarian African autocrats?
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A doctor examines Wek Wol Wek (3 years), who suffers acute malnutrition, at the clinic run by Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Aweil, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan, on October 11, 2016. Every week, the MSF clinic attends 60 new cases of malnourishment and it registered the highest activity in August 2016 with 90. Since March 2016, more than 70,000 people from Northen Bahr al Ghazal migrated to the neighbouring country Sudan due to the lack of food and the inflation in the market. According to the Food Security Outlook Update released by Famine Early Warning System Network (Fews Net) in September 2016, in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, some households are in Catastrophe phase level (IPC Phase 5), as they suffer from extreme lack of food, with households facing significant food consumption gaps, high levels of malnutrition and mortality. / AFP / ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN (Photo credit should read ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images) South Sudan’s Man-Made Famine
The country's warring leaders have left their citizens with two options – flee or starve.
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sa-crop South African Court Tells Government It Can’t Withdraw From the ICC
In yet another blow to South African President Jacob Zuma’s government.
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un-food-crop World’s Ability to Feed Itself ‘In Jeopardy,’ U.N. Warns in New Report
Unless the world undertakes 'major transformations' to address world hunger.
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ssudan-crop ‘Our Worst Fears Have Been Realized’: The Famine We Could Have Stopped in South Sudan
South Sudan just declared a famine. But it’s been years in the making and it could have been stopped.
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People read a Kenyan daily newspaper with the front page showing newly elected US President Donald Trump in Nairobi on November 10, 2016. Donald Trump's extraordinary US election victory sent shockwaves across the world on November 9, 2016, as opponents braced for a "dangerous" leader in the White House while fellow populists hailed a ballot-box revolution by ordinary people. America's allies put a diplomatically brave face on the outcome of the deeply divisive presidential race, which has implications for everything from trade to human rights, climate change to global conflicts. / AFP / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Deafening Silence on Africa
President Trump’s repeated emphasis of “America First” during his inaugural speech leaves many to wonder what will be the basis for U.S.-African cooperation in in the Trump era.
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gettyimages-739181 America First Shouldn’t Mean America Alone
If Donald Trump can’t play nice with U.S. allies, his presidency could crash and burn in the Horn of Africa.
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sa-crop Watch: South African Presidential Address Turns Violent
Jeers, fistfights and pepper spray in the parliamentary chamber.
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armyworm-crop The Very Hungry Caterpillar From Hell
A nondescript pest is threatening African food stocks — and could be headed to Europe and Asia.
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pres-debates Catch Up on The Presidential Debates: Somalia Edition
Not to worry: Even Trump came up, tangentially.
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Somali refugees walk at the new Ifo-extension in Dadaab on July 31, 2011. The new site opened to some 5,000 refugees among an ever swelling number of Somalia's people coming into the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya's north-easterly province. The Ifo extension, which will provide tented accommodation to 90,000 refugees by the end of November, had been prepared several weeks ago but its opening was delayed owing to opposition from Kenyan government ranks citing a threat to the nation's security. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) My Family Waited 13 Years to Resettle in the United States. Then Trump Slammed the Door in Our Faces.
Weeks before they expected their visas, my parents learned they are banned under the president’s executive order. The new law will tear our family apart.
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mugabe-crop How Not to Handle Criticism, Brought to You By Robert Mugabe
The Zimbabwean dictator’s very public, very amusing fallout with a former political ally in South Africa.
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Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh arrives at the Elysee palace to participate in the Elysee summit for peace and safety in Africa, on December 6, 2013 in Paris. AFP PHOTO/ ALAIN JOCARD (Photo credit should read ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/Getty Images) The Fall of Africa’s Loneliest Despot
How West Africa forced out Gambia's dictator, and strengthened its democracy, without firing a shot.
