Azad Essa

A two-day in­ter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence is urg­ing col­lec­tive and de­ci­sive ac­tion against Myan­mar.

Anti-Se­mit­ic in­ci­dent at Co­lum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty comes as ris­ing num­ber of hate crimes are re­port­ed across the US.

De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Re­pub­lic of Con­go has seen mul­ti­ple out­breaks of Ebo­la, but this time it faces more chal­lenges.

Be­fore the cru­cial midterm elec­tions on No­vem­ber 6, ad­vo­cates put spot­light on Trump’s im­mi­gra­tion ‘scare tac­tics’.

S’bu Zikode leads a shack dwellers’ move­ment and says city of­fi­cials crack down on those who high­light a hous­ing cri­sis.

Rwan­dan traders sell­ing used clothes suf­fer as the gov­ern­ment tax­es used im­ports, but lo­cal de­sign­ers wel­come the move.

Rwan­da’s push for gen­der equal­i­ty hailed by some, but oth­ers call it ‘smoke­screen’ for gov­ern­ment re­pres­sion.

De­spite its im­por­tant role in the econ­o­my, cof­fee isn’t part of dai­ly life for most Rwan­dans but things are chang­ing.

Land re­form a key is­sue be­fore elec­tions next year, ex­perts say, turn­ing up de­bate over lega­cy of apartheid.

As thou­sands of min­ing jobs are cut, fam­i­lies of strik­ing work­ers slain in 2012 still await com­pen­sa­tion and jus­tice.