Blame the spike partly on complacency in the shipping industry, as vessels have cut down on self-protection measures
Africa’s Worst Crisis In 24 Years: Ahead Of Peace Talks, A Who’s Who In South Sudan’s Splintering Civil War
More than 4 million people, one third of the population, have fled their homes since South Sudans brutal war began in December 2013
Watching Ethiopia And Eritrea: Will The Two Bald Men Stop Fighting Over A Comb Soon?
The big question now is whether Abiy will pull Ethiopian troops from land around the frontier town of Badme, which an international commission in 2003 determined belonged to Eritrea.
Elephant Poaching In Africa Has Dropped For 5 Straight Years, But Faces New Threats From Southern Asia
2016 saw the highest level of seizures of illegally traded ivory by weight since 1989. These encouraging trends are primarily linked to developments in East Africa
The Aid Sector’s Horrible Problem: Oxfam Sexual Exploiter In Haiti Had Been Caught 7 Years Earlier In Liberia
“I remember thinking, oh, [unusual] there are some old unattractive white men NOT having sex with prostitutes – weird”, said an aid worker