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Climate Change and Its Impact on Food Security

Global warming does more than change climates. It intensifies famine and droughts by shortening the rainy season and drying up lakes. This reduction in resources and livelihoods creates conflicts as people fight over fertile la...

by Allison Midori Reilly

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Guinea-Bissau: The Failed State You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

If popular online quiz website, Sporcle, is anything to go by, there is a chance you have never heard of Guinea-Bissau. Yet the West African state, situated between Senegal and Guinea, has been declared the continent’s first ...

by David Earnshaw

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Madagascar: Why I’m Not Giving Up On Politicians (Yet)

On October 25, 2013, my home country of Madagascar will finally be electing a new president. In recent years the citizens of Madagascar have witnessed their economy plunge into the abyss, its natural resources pillaged. Accor...

by Lova Rakotomalala

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WATCH: Religious missionaries are spreading homophobia in Uganda

In his latest documentary, God Loves Uganda, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams explores the role of the American Evangelical movement in fueling Uganda’s terrifying turn towards biblical law and the prop...

by Natasha Lipman

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White American Claims to Be Kenya’s First Female Maasai Warrior

Mindy Budgor is an American woman from Southern California who has released a book, “Warrior Princess: My Quest to Become the First Female Maasai Warrior“, detailing her controversial attempt to become the first female Maa...

by Ndesanjo Macha

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How Female Genital Cutting is Ending

Female genital cutting (FGC) is a harmful practice involving the forcible removal of a girl’s genitals. In Africa alone, 30 million girls are at risk of being cut over the next decade, and up to 125 million women and girls ...

by Julia Lalla-Maharajh

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The Gambia Quits British Commonwealth, Calling It ‘Extension of Colonialism’

The tiny West African State of The Gambia has announced via state television that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations, a fellowship of 54 countries that are mainly former colonies of the British Empire. A statemen...

by Demba Kandeh

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Community Key to ‘Green’ Tourism

Amidst the Westgate attack and terrorist threats to Kenya hundreds of tourism industry experts converged in Kenya to converse about green tourism. Events and management groups, travelers, conservationists, hoteliers, tours and ...

by Fridah Mlemwa

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Water, Water Everywhere

Last May, when Ethiopia began diverting the course of the Blue Nile as part of a project aimed at building the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa, Egypt’s reaction was fierce. Following the June 1st report of the trilateral...

by Anna Lazzarin

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Climate Change and Its Impact on Food Security

Guinea-Bissau: The Failed State You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Madagascar: Why I’m Not Giving Up On Politicians (Yet)

WATCH: Religious missionaries are spreading homophobia in Uganda

White American Claims to Be Kenya’s First Female Maasai Warrior

How Female Genital Cutting is Ending

The Gambia Quits British Commonwealth, Calling It ‘Extension of Colonialism’

Community Key to ‘Green’ Tourism

Water, Water Everywhere

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