African

By Akilimali Saleh Chomachoma Fighting between the FARDC, M23 and other local militias is increasingly frequent in and around the park, complicating nature conservation work and blocking development projects for the benefit of the impoverished […]

By Virginia Van Zandt For rural Ugandans, jackfruit trees are abundant — now farmers are discovering that selling their jackfruits could increase their yearly income by 20 percent.  Quresh Fidahusein, the CEO of Zahra Food […]

By Courtney Travis The deadly and destructive journey for long-lasting Tropical Cyclone Freddy is nearly over after the storm made its third and final landfall more than one month after its initial formation, AccuWeather forecasters […]

By Alberto Arellano Israel on Wednesday slammed as “disgraceful” the South African parliament’s decision to downgrade Jerusalem’s embassy in Pretoria to a liaison office.  The measure in the South African legislature was backed by 208 […]

By Joseph Hammond Each year the residents of a modest town in central Mali work together to preserve one of the most iconic structures in both Islamic and African architectural history: the Great Mosque of […]

By Virginia Van Zandt On a red-soiled coffee plantation some 170 miles northeast of Uganda’s capital city of Kampala, a young woman sorts coffee beans headed for a Trader Joe’s in Milwaukee.  Endiro Coffee, a […]

By Renee Duff Fierce Tropical Cyclone Freddy has been on the watch of AccuWeather meteorologists since its beginnings in the far eastern Indian Ocean in early February. Now, the storm’s unusual path is closing in […]

By Jackson Okata NAIROBI, Kenya — Among the Kenyan pastoralist communities, women are traditionally tasked with the responsibility of building family homes this is a role that in other Kenyan communities is reserved for men who […]

By Bill Deger Powerful Tropical Cyclone Freddy, a long-lived storm that was churning across the Indian Ocean on Thursday more than a week after forming near Indonesia, is expected to continue taking an unusual track […]