Society & Culture

On the night of May 27th, a dormitory at Utumishi Girls Secondary School in Gilgil, central Kenya, became a tomb. Fire swept through the building before dawn, killing at least sixteen students and injuring seventy-nine more. Among the survivors, many are fighting for their lives in hospital burns units that were already overstretched before this […]

The political temperature in Chad is rising dangerously, and the international community is watching with growing alarm. In recent weeks, the government of President Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno has intensified its crackdown on opposition figures, arresting key leaders, banning rallies, and moving to silence critical voices — a pattern that observers say mirrors the one-party

An Ebola treatment centre in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo was set on fire by angry demonstrators on Wednesday, destroying medical tents and setting back containment efforts in an outbreak that the World Health Organization has already classified as a global health emergency. The attack took place in Rwampara district, where residents clashed with

Uganda’s Ministry of Health confirmed three new cases of Ebola on Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country to five since the outbreak first spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The confirmation came as the World Health Organisation classified ten additional African nations as high-risk, based on proximity to affected

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s national football team has been forced to cancel its pre-World Cup training camp in Kinshasa after an Ebola outbreak in the country’s east made international sporting logistics untenable, in the latest illustration of how the ongoing public health emergency is disrupting life well beyond the health sector alone. The national

The humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo deepened this week as the Red Cross confirmed that two of its volunteers had died from suspected Ebola, highlighting the extraordinary personal risk that health workers and community responders are bearing in the latest outbreak of the deadly virus. The deaths underscore the growing alarm as

When DJ Black Coffee — born Nkosinomi Mphande — arrived at the Royal Albert Hall in London last week, he walked onto a stage that has hosted everyone from the Beatles to Beyoncé. What he did there was less a performance than a declaration: that Africa’s contribution to global electronic music is no longer a

When the World Health Organization declared the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a public health emergency of continental security, the world’s attention turned — once again — to the devastating capacity of a virus that has haunted central Africa for decades. But beneath the familiar urgency lies an unfamiliar problem: the

Uganda’s Ministry of Health confirmed on Tuesday that three additional cases of Ebola had been detected in the country, pushing the total number of confirmed infections to five. The announcement came as the World Health Organization warned that the outbreak, centred in the Democratic Republic of Congo but spreading across porous borders, posed a risk

When Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, in one of his final acts before being dismissed by President Faye, defended his government’s crackdown on LGBTQ individuals as a rejection of “homosexual tyranny,” he was articulating a sentiment that has been gaining ground across West Africa for the better part of a decade. Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Burkina

The World Health Organization has raised the public health risk assessment for the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to “very high,” a designation that triggers enhanced international protocols and signals that the situation is deteriorating faster than containment efforts can manage. The announcement, made Thursday, came alongside disturbing reports from eastern