The World Food Programme’s chief economist explains how a new resolution could make it easier to fight food insecurity driven by violence.

As the blockchain wave sweeps Africa new techpreneurs have moved beyond virtual currencies to find new uses of the technology.

What solid proof of nationality can any individual attempting to migrate really provide?

The Atiwa Forest, regarded as the biggest natural forest reserve in West Africa is facing its biggest threat by the government of Ghana.

Conspiracy theorists Alex Jones, the often meme’d character with, of course, a tin foil hat worn in the belief that it shields the brain from mind [...]

Media, political leaders, local authorities and the international community strongly condemned the brutal assault against journalist Kovačević.

From Nigeria to the Congo basin to Mozambique in South Africa, the rapacious Chinese appetite for unprocessed timber has left a trail of destruction.

A mother and her daughter have taken on the Herculean task of restoring the faded glory of Somalia while giving hope, safe haven and new lease of life.

Will robots actually take our jobs anytime soon?

A cocktail of population growth, climate change and Boko Haram terror group activities have conspired to choke a Lake that provides for millions of people.

Most Eritreans understand the horrors that await them as they travel to seek refuge. What are the coping mechanisms developed in response?

Retired accordionist Besim Velić from Kevljani, a small village in the north-west of Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives right next to the site of the [...]

Afghanistan's dreaded vice president, Gen. Abdul Rasheed Dostum – who faces charges of war crimes and sexual assaults – has returned home.

Over the past years there has been a surge in E.U. spending on borders outside Europe. The impact of this funding on West Africa has received attention now.

In numerous villages in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, the global demand for vanilla has translated into an orgy of violence and death.

The lack of accessible information available to most women victims of abuse led Hera Hussain to found, in 2013, the open-source organisation Chayn.