africa
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Why are hundreds of elephants dying mysteriously in Botswana?
Vicky Boult, The Conversation
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Watch: Can locusts be food? Kenyan scientists are exploring the question as a second wave looms
Scroll Staff
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In Pakistan, a community descended from East Africans is still fighting prejudice
Zofeen T Ebrahim, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Coronavirus crisis could fuel the rise of terrorist organisations in Asia and Africa
Nisha Bellinger, The Conversation Kyle Kattelman, The Conversation
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Lockdown reading: Eight novels from Africa offer reflections on disease, death and isolation
Isabel Hofmeyr, The Conversation Aretha Phiri, The Conversation Grace Musila, The Conversation Manosa Nthunya, The Conversation Nedine Moonsamy, The Conversation Sam Naidu, The Conversation Sarah Nuttall, The Conversation Susan Kiguli, The Conversation Tom Odhiambo, The Conversation
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Washing hands is key to containing coronavirus – but 2.2 billion people lack access to clean water
Anjal Prakash
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Coronavirus: Portable wash basins in Rwanda ensure bus passengers wash hands before boarding
Scroll Staff
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Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an unidentified ghost species
George Busby, The Conversation
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Burkina Faso: 35 civilians, most of them women, killed in twin attack
Scroll Staff
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Sounds of resistance: How the radio fuelled the revolution in colonial Angola
Marissa J Moorman, The Conversation
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Writers’ groups in Africa are disrupting the system and reshaping the region’s literary canon
Doseline Kiguru, The Conversation
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Liberation hero or monster? Robert Mugabe is as divisive in death as he was in life
Roger Southall, The Conversation
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Watch: British tourist abuses, attacks and bites Moroccan trader for keeping chickens in cages
Scroll Staff
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Human trafficking through football: Search for the next star is leading to modern-day slave trade
Ini-Obong Nkang, The Conversation
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A gentrified Addis Ababa has no place for street hustlers – the same people who helped build it
Marco Di Nunzio, The Conversation
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At 210,000 years old, broken skull from Greece cave is the oldest found outside Africa
Scroll Staff
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Botswana’s High Court decriminalises homosexuality
Scroll Staff
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This Urdu short story by Joginder Paul brings Indian readers a slice of life in Kenya
Joginder Paul
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Watch: A tropical cyclone wreaked havoc in Mozambique, destroying 90% of one city
Scroll Staff
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Africa: Rare black leopard captured on camera in Kenya
Scroll Staff