Africa faces ‘deadlier’ test as malaria season sets in against backdrop of Trump’s US aid cuts weaken the fight against it
Uganda in 2023 had 12.6 million malaria cases and nearly 16,000 deaths, many of them children under 5 and pregnant women, according to WHO. Opigo said the US has been giving between $30 million and $35 million annually for malaria control. He didn’t say which contracts have been terminated but noted that field research was also affected.
Ethiopia teeters on brink of another conflict a year after Pretoria peace deal ended a brutal civil war in Tigray region
Over the last 18 months, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has launched a campaign to reclaim landlocked Ethiopia’s sea access, which it lost when Eritrea seceded in 1993. This prompted an angry row with Somalia that has only just been patched up.
Contested between Sudan and South Sudan’s oil-rich Abyei territory’s years in political limbo renews ethnic hostility
There have also been longer-standing clashes between the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya pastoralists, who migrate seasonally through Abyei and have historically acted as proxies for the Sudanese government; although there has been a reduction in tensions in recent years.
Karachuonyo ‘happy’ monkeys in Kenya’s Lake Victoria Basin carve a reputation as wildlife that sneak into kitchens for cooked food
Beside monkeys, some villages in Homa Bay are also invaded by hyenas that kill domestic animals. Officers from KWS are setting up traps to capture them and relocate them to their natural habitat,” Kibor said.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela play explores Black women’s long wait for absent husbands during South African freedom struggle
Madikizela-Mandela, who died in 2018 aged 81, was accused of kidnapping and murdering people she allegedly suspected of being police informants under apartheid. She also faced allegations of being unfaithful to Mandela during his 27 years in prison.
How community policing is silencing guns and banditry in northern Kenya, promoting livestock trade
Speaking during IMPACT community accountability and feedback forum in Juakali, Laikipia County, Rachachore said the two-year campaign has resulted in some 62 moran age group leaders abandoning criminal activities and become peace ambassadors.
Kenya, Egypt, Cameroon and South Sudan implicated again in smuggling of Sudan’s gum Arabic used in manufacture of Coca-Cola
In the year after Sudan’s civil war began, the country’s gum arabic exports to the EU fell, even as exports from countries like Egypt, Kenya, Cameroon and South Sudan rose.
Serious funding questions raised as new Somali peace support takes over from previous under-resourced military mission
Past missions – the AU Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and ATMIS – depended heavily on donor funding. The EU paid for troops’ stipends, while the UN provided logistical support packages to the missions and Somalia Security Forces through the UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS).
High-altitude Kenyan town Iten adapts as Olympic champions and amateurs flock to rarefied air
Iten is home to some 42,000 people, mostly subsistence farmers and it has also been a temporary home to plenty of world champions, including two-time Olympic gold medallists Eliud Kipchoge (marathon) and David Rudisha (800 metres), both of Kenya. British four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah would train in Iten for months at a time.
‘Wildlife corridors’ are encouraged to support Kenya’s recovering animal populations
Lewa’s elephant population increased from 350 individuals in 2014 to over 450 in 2024, according to figures provided by the conservancy. Similar growth was seen among white and black rhinos, a major draw for visitors.
