By Kizito Makoye KILOSA, Tanzania (IDN) – Hidaya Juma looks gaunt and weary. Her sun-parched skin and tattered clothes tell it all. She is poor. Juma, a 43-year-old single mother of four, who lives in Kisanga village, Kilosa district, in Tanzania’s eastern Morogoro region, lives in a mud-walled house that is prone to flooding. Her […]
Advocates for Biafra and Journalists Against Corruption Face Gov’t Crackdown
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – The war may be over in a place called Biafra – a region of states in the southern part of Nigeria – but it remains a flashpoint for ethnic tensions that simmer just below the surface. This September, the leader of the Indigenous People of […]
Drought Catapults Zimbabwe into a National Disaster
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – In a new low water mark for Zimbabwe’s troubled economy, two million people in Zimbabwe’s capital have now been left without water after the government ran out of foreign currency to pay for imported water treatment chemicals. Zimbabwe’s capital city shut its main water works […]
Ugandan TV Host Wins Coveted Prize for Investigative Journalism
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Ugandan investigative reporter and news anchor Solomon Serwanjja is the 2019 winner of the Komla Dumor award. It goes to a journalist committed to changing the narrative about Africa. Serwanjja, a presenter at Uganda’s NBS TV, hosts one of the channel’s prime-time shows. He has […]
Russia Making Further Inroads into Zimbabwe
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW (IDN) – Russia maintains very friendly relations with Zimbabwe, thanks to ties which evolved during the struggle for independence. Since then, it has had a very strong mutual sympathy with and friendly feelings toward the southern African people, government and country. One of the fora in which relations between the […]
Kenya Must Move Fast to Reverse Deforestation
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Since independence, natural resources in Kenya have been on a fast track to extinction. Today, nearly half of all its forests are gone, resulting in more droughts, floods and other dire consequences for communities, ecosystems, food security and infrastructure. From 10% of the country covered […]
Rising Demand for Palm Oil Threatens African Culture
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – The palm oil industry is growing by leaps and bounds around the globe but its overnight success is worrying environmentalists. An estimated 7.5 million acres of land traditionally used or inhabited by local communities has been acquired by palm oil companies, according to GRAIN, a […]
Ghana’s First President Predicted Black-on-Black Troubles in Africa
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, warned as far back as the 1960s that political independence from European colonial oppressors without economic independence was a recipe for disaster.Nkrumah, who authored The struggle continues, Class Struggle in Africa and Neo-colonialism – the last stage of imperialism, among […]
Refugees Being Shuttled from Libya to Rwanda
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – European nations are building a wall – a sea wall – to keep African migrants from reaching their shores. With funds paid by the European Union and cooperating African governments, refugees are being sent to distant centers where they are expected to make their asylum […]
Violence Hits Nigerian and Other Businesses in Jo’burg
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – As state-sponsored violence threatens Latinos in the U.S., xenophobia is again threatening Nigerians and other Africans whose shops in Johannesburg are being targeted for looting and destruction by unknown groups. The latest spate of violence broke out in suburbs south of Johannesburg’s city center and […]