Tanupriya Singh / Peoples DispatchApr 5, 2024
Millions across the region are facing severe hunger and livelihood losses, with smallholder farmers striving to cope with the climate crisis and colonial monoculture patterns of farming. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Nick Turse / TomDispatchApr 3, 2024
The new junta in Niger tells the U.S. to pack up its war and go home, insisting the current security pact violates their constitution. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Jacqueline Kubania / TruthdigMar 6, 2024
Organizers are fighting for wide-ranging reforms and an end to systemic violence against women. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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Pavan Kulkarni / Peoples DispatchFeb 26, 2024
With over half the population hungry and starvation deaths increasing by the hour, Sudanese brace for worse as the country enters the lean season on the heels of a harvest season lost to war. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Lisa Vives / InDepthNewsJan 3, 2024
A hearing at the International Court of Justice into the request is likely in the coming days or weeks. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Pavan Kulkarni / Peoples DispatchJan 2, 2024
After capturing Gezira, a State in central Sudan that was producing 40% of its wheat, the RSF is set to battle the Sudanese Armed Forces to consolidate control over the country’s agricultural heartland. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Jessica Corbett / Common DreamsNov 29, 2023
"It's like the tobacco companies that knew the addictive and lethal nature of cigarettes yet continued to get millions of teenagers hooked on them," said one African critic. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Pavan Kulkarni / Peoples DispatchNov 21, 2023
Rawia Kamal, a health activist displaced after the paramilitary attacked her home, recounts the travails of being in war-torn Sudan with looming threat of diseases. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Nick Turse / TomDispatchNov 15, 2023
America's forever wars have yielded an astronomical 75,000% increase in terrorist attacks. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Tanupriya Singh / Peoples DispatchNov 7, 2023
Mass displacement reaches record levels as M23, a proxy force backed by Rwanda, continues its offensive in the eastern provinces of the DRC in violation of a ceasefire. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Hossam el-Hamalawy / Africa Is A CountryOct 23, 2023
As the ruler of the most populous nation in the Arab world, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi should be concerned about the fallout of the ongoing Israel-Gaza war on his regime. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Gregory Shupak / Responsible StatecraftSep 28, 2023
The 2011 intervention was a link in the chain of events leading to last month’s floods and tragedy. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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