Sahel Conflict Set to Worsen in 2022: Analysts
Islamist militant attacks increased this past year in the Sahel region, leading to political instability that saw a coup in Mali, an attempted coup in Niger, and calls for Burkina…
Mongabay’s 10 most popular posts of 2021
Published by Mongabay Mongabay will end up publishing about 5,000 posts in 2021, with original content in English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as translations across Chinese,…
Mali Conference Recommends Election Delay of Up to 5 Years
A conference in Mali charged with recommending a timetable for democratic elections following a military coup said on Thursday that polls scheduled for February should be delayed by six months…
Four Soldiers Killed in Mali Attack
Four Malian soldiers were killed and around a dozen others were wounded when they were attacked in the west of the county, the army said Thursday. Mali’s Armed Forces said…
South Africa Lifts Curfew, Says COVID-19 Fourth Wave Peaked
South Africa has lifted a midnight-to-4 a.m. curfew on people’s movement, effective immediately, saying the country has passed the peak of its fourth COVID-19 wave driven by the omicron variant,…
Atrocities, War Expand Beyond Ethiopia’s Tigray
What began as a conflict between the Ethiopian Federal government and a local military in late 2020, exploded into a civil war in 2021 that has forced two million people…
Uber, Electric Vehicle Group Partner to Deploy Electric Motorcycles Across Africa in 2022
NAIROBI — Just as in most cities across Africa, motorcycle taxi drivers are in almost every corner of Nairobi. Josephat Mutiso is among the first drivers here to make the…
Tutu’s Advocacy for LGBTQ Rights Did Not Sway Most of Africa
Desmond Tutu is being remembered for his passionate advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ people as well as his fight for racial justice. But the South African archbishop’s campaign against homophobia…
Low Vaccination Rates a Concern Amid African COVID Surge
Low vaccination rates are of mounting concern amid a new wave of COVID-19 infections in Africa, where nearly 227,000 deaths have been reported, according to the Africa CDC’s COVID-19 dashboard.…
Have Refugee Camps Escaped Mass COVID Infections?
Roughly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, no massive outbreaks have been reported in refugee camps to date. Health experts have some theories about why, but they also urge continued…