GULU, Uganda — Richard Kidega, a farmer in Lakalanganya village in Pader district, northern Uganda, has been cutting down endangered indigenous trees, despite government warnings. “I have…
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GABORONE, Botswana — Kenson Kgaga, the owner of Naga Safaris that offers day trips to Okavango Delta in northern Botswana, was hopeful of making a total return…
HARARE, Zimbabwe — African countries are set to benefit from an American initiative to donate excess Covid-19 vaccines. “We are unable to share vaccine doses procured by…
LAHORE, Pakistan — Activists and media persons gathered outside the Islamabad Press Club in Pakistan’s capital on May 29 to protest against the assault on independent journalist…
BEIJING — Hoping to rejuvenate the aging population and arrest the declining birth rate, Chinese President Xi Jinping recently allowed couples to have three children. China’s recent census…
KOLKATA, India — Y. Nuklu Phom spent his entire childhood foraging into the tropical and pine forests in Nagaland, a mountainous state in northeastern India and a…
NAKURU, Kenya — Pamela Nanjala, a 38-year-old mother of two, was among many sent home in March 2020 by Sosiani Flowers, a flower farm in Nakuru, 86…
An alleged hijacker, muttering that he wanted to “stop this plane”, was subdued with the help of the manager of a well-known Christian rock band on…
NEW DELHI — As India sees a shift from vaccine hesitancy to vaccine shortage amid a deadly second Covid-19 wave, the country’s tech community has found shortcuts…
ZBARBAR, Algeria — Zahir Bakhouche, 27, from the Zaâbib village in the Zbarbar commune, in Algeria’s south-east, vividly remembers his father’s tragic attack, kidnap, and murder by…