Can Zackie Achmat change South Africa from inside Parliament?
One of the most successful activists in South African history, Achmat crusaded against apartheid and, after the country’s democratic transition in 1994, to secure LGBTQ+ equality. He drew international attention in the late 1990s when he launched the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), a grassroots movement that helped win affordable access to HIV treatment globally. But […]
If African governments won’t act, the people will
With frustration rising over haphazard responses to the coronavirus, community networks are filling the void across the continent. Read more.
A light unto some nations
Israel is offering tens of thousands of asylum seekers from Africa only one alternative to deportation: detention with no known end date or guarantee of asylum. Read more.
Inside Israel’s secret program to get rid of African refugees
It begins with furtive promises by Israeli authorities of asylum and work opportunities in Rwanda and Uganda. Once the Sudanese and Eritrean asylum-seekers reach the East African countries, they describe a remarkably similar ordeal: They meet someone who presents himself as a government agent at the airport, bypass immigration, move to a house or hotel […]
The Olympic team with no flag
The first time Yiech Pur Biel boarded a plane, in 2005, it was to escape the war-torn corner of southern Sudan where he grew up. He has lived in a refugee camp in northwestern Kenya ever since. If all goes as planned, the second time he boards a plane, in just a few weeks, it […]
Obama dreams of an AIDS-free generation
But if Washington doesn’t put more money behind its ambitious rhetoric, HIV could make a major comeback. An investigation on the front line of the disease. Read more.
A real debate before Uganda’s fake election
Museveni’s unexpected appearance at a presidential debate over the weekend, just days before Ugandans head to the polls on Feb. 18, came as a shock to the country’s political chattering class. Up until the moment he appeared on stage, journalists and pundits were predicting he’d skip the event — just as he had the inaugural […]
Uganda discovered the Zika virus — and the solution for it
It’s the Zika virus — which has infected tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people in the Americas in recent months and may be linked to a spate of children born with underdeveloped brains in Brazil — that’s now bringing Ugandan epidemiologists unexpected attention. Uganda Virus Research Institute scientists first discovered Zika in the […]
Burundi votes, and violence looms
Residents are scrambling to leave Burundi as voting in parliamentary and local elections threatens to turn ugly fast. Read more.
To forgive a warlord
The wheels of justice are turning for Joseph Kony’s top deputies. But could rehashing the worst days of the Lord’s Resistance Army at The Hague tear Uganda apart? Read more.