Letter from Africa: Anxious start to 2015
In our series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene, a former government minister and member of the opposition, gives her predictions...
Ebola crisis: Reporting from the frontline in Sierra Leone
Five or six patients stood in the doorway of the Ebola treatment centre in eastern Sierra Leone’s Kenema town on 23 June.
By Umaru Fofana
Among...
Trafficking great ape body parts in Cameroon
New trade in lucrative ape skulls and bones stokes fears of annihilation of wild gorilla and chimpanzee populations. Eugene Nforngwa Writes:
Yaounde, Cameroon - For...
Soaring unemployment and problems of shorts
Deep in the archives of Yale University’s Babylonian Collection lie three small clay tablets with a particular claim to fame - they are the...
Boko Haram insurgency creates humanitarian crisis in Nigeria
By William Wallis
People displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency seek refuge in Yola
When Boko Haram strikes, it has the effect of a forest fire,...
