by Ivor Ichikowitz In a refreshing twist on what had been starting to look like a depressing U-turn to the days when coup d’etats were all too present in postcolonial Africa, 80 political parties and nongovernmental organizations in Mali joined forces this week to demand new ...
I am a reluctant adventurer. Home and work are my safe spaces, and routine is the glue that holds my comfort zone together. Change creates anxiety and leaves me disoriented, anxious to return to the familiar. That is one reason — but not the only reason — that I travel. I need to ...
by Samar Al-Bulushi and Lina Benabdallah Last week Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released the Biden administration’s long-awaited Africa strategy during his visit to South Africa. Perhaps the most notable shift in tone during Blinken’s five-day, three-country tour of the ...
by April L. Raphiou While the world’s scientists are scrambling to unravel the inner workings of the omicron variant, not enough people are talking about the elephant in the room: the southern Africa travel ban that remains in place. When South African scientists identified a new ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Bird-Proofing Wind Turbines Regular readers know that I’ve talked often about wind turbines killing thousands, if not millions of birds and bats every year. I know people believe that wind is the solution to some of our pollution problems, but without ...
COMMENTARY COVID-19 is creating the worst imaginable conservation crisis in Africa. Things are deteriorating rapidly, and given the growing number of animal rights legal pushes to end all hunting in Africa, chances are wildlife there won’t recover to levels before the virus. ...