How refrigeration revolutionised global trade
Crazier than a half dozen opium-smoking frogs.” That’s how one observer described Guatemala’s former President Gen Jorge Ubico.
The general liked to dress up as...
After the Mugabes, which African dynasties remain?
With Robert Mugabe’s hopes of handing power to his wife in Zimbabwe over, which political dynasties are still going strong elsewhere in Africa?
Since the...
Returning to Kashmir, where our parents were shot in front of us
Seventy years ago, a young British couple was shot dead at a mission hospital in Kashmir, making orphans of their three sons - one...
Unending asylum: Refugees the world abandoned
By Ochiaka Ugwu
Mohammed Adamu was a happy man living a quiet life until Boko Haram fighters raided his community of Chibok, a sleepy town...
How missing weather data is a ‘life and death’ issue
A shortage of weather data is putting many African countries at an economic disadvantage, experts believe. The BBC’s Click team went to Tanzania to...
