Legislation to protect wildlife from poaching in the Okavango River Basin of southern Africa was passed this week by the United States House of Representatives, where members who sponsored the bill raised the alarm over ties between wildlife trafficking and terrorist organization finance. “This ecosystem spans three countries,” said bill…
With the news this week that the 76-year-old President Alassane Ouattara won’t seek a controversial third term in Côte d’Ivoire – he’ll head up a new coalition party for a 2020 transition instead – some in neighboring Togo wonder if their own leader will take the hint that it’s time…
There was much speculation ahead of Congolese President Joseph Kabila’s speech Thursday before the parliament, as the international community waited to hear whether the defiant leader who has since 2016 refused to leave office plans to seek an unconstitutional third term. Claudel Lubaya, a member of the National Assembly with…
President Xi Jinping of China begins Thursday a trip that will bring him to Senegal…
A labor union in Spain is calling on its government to address security and working…
A new report from UNAIDS warns that HIV infections are on the rise in nearly…
General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) has recaptured Derna, the last bastion of Islamist…
It’s a story with all the hallmarks of a supermarket tabloid: sex, betrayal, spies and…
