Africa

The long journey from ‘Indigenous’ to citizen in Mozambique

Under the Portuguese Empire (roughly 1505 until 1975), the word “Indigenous” was not just a descriptive word for the African population of Mozambique. It...

GiveDirectly’s AI experiment left vulnerable flood victims behind in Nigeria

This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. ...

Gulf war fallout: Somali households pay the price of trade disruption

Things have never been easy for Maako Sheikh Isaaq, who...

The City Between Two Armies: How El Obeid Became Sudan’s Humanitarian Epicenter

In El Obeid, the strategic capital of North Kordofan, Sudan, residential neighbourhoodsneighborhoods have been reduced to rubble,; battered by relentless drone attacks. Fuel shortages...

How Infrastructure Development Is Undermining Decades of Kenya’s Conservation Efforts

Two decades after the death of Africa's first female Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, the forests she dedicated her life protecting and the...

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