He has transformed sterile land into a forest by digging trenches in the hardened earth that hold water and other nutrients, allowing the growing crops to resist drought. This is an ancient unconventional technique known as zaï. The land is different in the province of…
Xenophobic attacks against immigrants are causing a lot of damage to South Africa’s image across the continent. Local politicians are partly to blame for…
The 2,720 kilometre wall, which separates the areas occupied by Morocco and those liberated by the Polisario Front in Western Sahara, is actually the…
In the Chadian region bordering with Libya, an area rich in gold, we find a crossroads of illegal trading, ethnic disputes and military positioning. The Tibesti…
Ever since it won the first democratic elections, held in November 1989 and supervised by the UN, by a comfortable 57%, the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO, now called the 'SWAPO Party of Namibia') has continued to enjoy an absolute majority over its opponents. A majority that grew even further over the years from over 70%…
With only 2.6 million inhabitants and an area of 824,292 square kilometres, Namibia presents a particularly complicated ethnic and cultural geography. Low population density and the absence of large urban centres of development (Windhoek, the political capital and the main city of the country, has little more than 300,000 inhabitants) deprive Namibia of the powerful aggregation…
The SWAPO movement succeeded in bringing on board the different ethnic groups, even co-opting some of the tribal leaders. In Namibia too, as in the rest of Africa, ethnic diversity is a difficult problem to manage. It may be said that the political fortunes of SWAPO were due, leaving aside the fidelity of the Ovambo and the…
The structure of the economy of Namibia reflects the contradictions that are typical of all southern Africa. On the one hand, the country may boast of one of the highest per capita incomes in the continent (almost 12,000 dollars which, in terms of 2017 real purchasing power, amounts to five times that of the poorest African countries),…
More than a half century after a group of bishops at the…
A Camillian and also professor at the University of Ouagadougou, Father Jacques…
Originally from the Argentine, Mons. José Luis Gerardo Ponce de León has…
She lives and works in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has…
The Butbut people of the larger Kalinga ethnic group live in…
For the Quechua, death does not mark an end but a…
The Bari, a South Sudan ethnic group who live on the…
There is no place in Mexico where the cult of the…
President Trump’s statements concerning a proposal to purchase Greenland from Denmark were met with derision throughout…
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Among all the natural resources that Africa possesses, minerals are the most coveted by developed countries…
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Advocacy is a strategy used around the world by NGOs, activists, and even policy makers themselves, to influence policies. Advocacy is about creating reform of…
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0nce upon a time there was a colony of little fishes who lived together in their own small pool, isolated from the rest of the fish…
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The world is afire again, the flames heartbreakingly consume shrubs, trees and forests in Australia, Portugal, Brazil, and recently in California and Siberia and elsewhere too.…
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