To cope with increasingly recurring droughts and animal deaths, the…
01 Jul 2024, Churches July 2024
It is East Africa's first port, but its development is…
01 Jul 2024, Dossier July 2024
The most serious threat is that the extremists will expand…
01 Jul 2024, News July 2024
The DRC government accuses Apple of buying conflict minerals and…
01 Jul 2024, News July 2024
As Africa's largest port, Durban faces many challenges that are…
01 Jul 2024, Dossier July 2024
A climate activist, a cultural producer and a writer. Three…
01 Jul 2024, News July 2024
Her sixth album, Mawja, returns to traditional sounds, reconnecting the…
01 Jul 2024, Culture July 2024
The Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants (CEPAMI) and…
01 Jul 2024, Churches July 2024
The Lagos complex, with the new Lekki container port and…
01 Jul 2024, Dossier July 2024
President Sissoco Embaló does not tolerate dissonant voices and continues…
01 Jul 2024, News July 2024
When the flocks of the carmine bee-eater arrive in the…
01 Jul 2024, Culture July 2024
Since colonial times, African ports have been the main gateway…
01 Jul 2024, Dossier July 2024
In traditional Africa, dance is more than entertainment. It is…
01 Jul 2024, Culture July 2024
Violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has…
01 Jun 2024, News June 2024
Since its foundation by the Spiritan Missionaries in 1928, the…
01 Jun 2024, Churches June 2024
In Saint Louis, in the north of Senegal, boat building…
01 Jun 2024, News June 2024
How to improve the relationship between local communities and the…
01 Jun 2024, News June 2024
The country has long been going through a phase of…
01 Jun 2024, Dossier June 2024
Distrust seems to be growing not only among ethnic groups…
01 Jun 2024, Dossier June 2024
In Burkina Faso, the terrorist threat emerged after 2015, the…
01 Jun 2024, Dossier June 2024
A cultural institution representing the Acholi chiefs. Their rules for…
01 Jun 2024, Culture June 2024
In the country's most populous city, Muslim prayer groups have…
01 Jun 2024, Churches June 2024
Akas pygmy men spend a lot of time with their…
01 Jun 2024, Culture June 2024
The Congolese judiciary threatened to prosecute the Archbishop of Kinshasa,…
01 Jun 2024, Churches June 2024
While the world's attention is focused on Ukraine and Gaza,…
01 Jun 2024, News June 2024
The Muslim religion is the unifying feature of Mauritanian culture…
01 May 2024, Dossier May 2024
The presidential elections, scheduled for June 22, constitute a test…
01 May 2024, Dossier May 2024
The Sisters who belong to the Slaves of the Divine…
01 May 2024, Churches May 2024
This infrastructure will change the trade routes of Southern Africa.…
01 May 2024, News May 2024
In recent years the inhabitants of this northern city have…
01 May 2024, Culture May 2024
The two ethnic groups of the Agni-Baulé in Ivory Coast…
01 May 2024, Culture May 2024
Nouakchott has not suffered large-scale attacks for 12 years. There…
01 May 2024, Dossier May 2024
The marriage of the Kabaka of Buganda renews his royal…
01 May 2024, Culture May 2024
The country is closely watching the ongoing tensions in the…
01 May 2024, News May 2024
The government is focusing on green hydrogen to diversify the…
01 May 2024, Dossier May 2024
Kidnapping for ransom has long become a real industry in…
01 Apr 2024, Churches April 2024
In the shade of the pyramids and minarets of Cairo,…
01 Apr 2024, Culture April 2024
Recycled material reigns supreme in Nike's modern art galleries in…
01 Apr 2024, Culture April 2024
Although colonization contributed to its urban development, Africa had already…
01 Apr 2024, Culture April 2024
Thirty years after Nelson Mandela’s election, South Africa will hold…
01 Apr 2024, News April 2024
This is the time necessary, according to Mireille Yoga, director…
01 Mar 2024, Churches March 2024
From the savannahs of Africa to the global cosmetics industry,…
01 Mar 2024, Culture March 2024
A political earthquake in the Middle East with strong repercussions,…
01 Mar 2024, News March 2024
The Manjak people are an ethnic group living in Guinea-Bissau.…
01 Mar 2024, Culture March 2024
Over the last ten years, fourteen museums have been opened.…
01 Mar 2024, Culture March 2024
The West aims to sanction the Kremlin also in the…
01 Mar 2024, News March 2024
Africa’s most populated country and leading economy boasts the continent’s…
01 Mar 2024, News March 2024
In the southern region of Chad, in Bodo, to be…
01 Feb 2024, Churches February 2024
There is a trait that distinguishes the Congolese Episcopal Conference…
01 Feb 2024, Dossier February 2024
On 20 January, President Tshisekedi was sworn in for a…
01 Feb 2024, Dossier February 2024
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, 64 years after its…
01 Feb 2024, Dossier February 2024
The Ndowe people of Equatorial Guinea live along the banks…
01 Feb 2024, Culture February 2024
Africa has the lowest access to electricity in the world.…
01 Feb 2024, News February 2024
‘In My Father's House’, a centre for vulnerable children. A…
01 Feb 2024, Churches February 2024
In Madagascar, large centuries-old trees become cisterns to cope with…
01 Feb 2024, Culture February 2024
The thirty-year instability of the mining provinces of North Kivu,…
01 Feb 2024, Dossier February 2024
While the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine are attracting most…
01 Feb 2024, News February 2024
South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, and Egypt produce their own. However,…
01 Feb 2024, News February 2024
The Institute for Social Transformation (IST) in Nairobi is a…
01 Jan 2024, Churches January 2024
For desert shepherds, elegance and grace are antidotes to the…
01 Jan 2024, Culture January 2024
Walking around the neighbourhoods of Lemba or Matete in Kinshasa…
01 Jan 2024, Dossier January 2024
If the current dynamics in the security field continue, and…
01 Jan 2024, News January 2024
The Congo River flows between Kinshasa and Brazzaville. The distance…
01 Jan 2024, Dossier January 2024
The ongoing jihadist expansion in the Sahel region and attempts…
01 Jan 2024, News January 2024
In a remote corner of Chad, three missionaries of the…
01 Jan 2024, Churches January 2024
Kinshasa is the capital and largest city of the Democratic…
01 Jan 2024, Dossier January 2024
"Ebale ya Congo ezali lopango te, ezali nzela" (The Congo…
01 Jan 2024, Dossier January 2024
African traditional political leaders cover both the temporal and the…
01 Jan 2024, Culture January 2024
The Dipo rite is an integral part of the Krobo…
01 Dec 2023, Culture December 2023
The way electronic music entered the African scene in the…
01 Dec 2023, Dossier December 2023
Red and black are two of the fundamental colours in…
01 Dec 2023, Culture December 2023
Afrobeats, bongo, amapiano, rumba, and gengetone are genres that are…
01 Dec 2023, Dossier December 2023
A collective runs a cultural centre and a record company…
01 Dec 2023, Dossier December 2023
Every religion has some form of sacrifice. In fact, sacrifice…
01 Dec 2023, Culture December 2023
The military juntas of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have…
01 Dec 2023, News December 2023
For some years now, the Nigerian and Ghanaian Afrobeats music…
01 Dec 2023, Dossier December 2023
The World Bank continues to finance the upgrading of the…
01 Dec 2023, News December 2023
The Cairo metropolis, one of the most populous in the…
01 Dec 2023, News December 2023
If there is a sector in Africa that is giving…
01 Nov 2023, Culture November 2023
Many African governments continue to focus on fossil fuels. And,…
01 Nov 2023, News November 2023
The projects of young technological entrepreneurs in healthcare, agriculture, the…
01 Nov 2023, News November 2023
The country's diamond, copper, gold, and manganese mines are in…
01 Nov 2023, News November 2023
The Groupe Bogolan Kasobané, from Mali, revolutionized the art scene…
01 Nov 2023, Culture November 2023
A community of Comboni Missionary Sisters work at St. Joseph's…
01 Nov 2023, Churches November 2023
For many African countries, political independence from the colonial powers…
01 Nov 2023, News November 2023
There are now about fifty scattered in thirty countries. They…
01 Oct 2023, Dossier October 2023
It is called participatory genetic improvement of seeds, takes place…
01 Oct 2023, Dossier October 2023
The Yoruba people are one of the largest in West…
01 Oct 2023, Culture October 2023
The director of the Institute for Research and Promotion of…
01 Oct 2023, Dossier October 2023
It is mostly farmers who guarantee the production of food, not only in African countries but throughout the world. Estimates by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) speak of 33 million small farmers who…
There is no shortage of water, but floods are increasingly frequent. To enable families to have enough food and earn their living, a group of Salesians have promoted a project for the cultivation and transformation…
Last August, Southern African bishops filed a class-action suit against a mining company that has failed to compensate miners for black lung disease. This is one of the many cases in an industry where workers…
Less than one year after the war in Tigray, Ethiopia has been hit by another conflict in the Amhara region. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has seemingly embarked on a military strategy. Many intellectuals warn that…
The plant has been used over many years in African herbal medicine for the treatment of a wide range of human illnesses. It is a small to medium-sized bushy tree, about 4-7m in height. Bark brown,…
Zhao Baomei controls the country's gold market. With her IMC, she has received numerous licenses, particularly in the areas of Yaloké, Bambari, and near the border with Cameroon. The IMC has caused serious damage to…
The fishing tradition goes back a long way in Mauritania. But as more and more Chinese fishmeal factories have set up in the country, local fishermen are often left empty-handed. This unscrupulous business threatens the…
Last June, the UN Security Council ended the mandate of MINUSMA in Mali while the DRC government announced the end of MONUSCO’s mandate within six months. There are also tensions between MINUSCA and the Central…
The synod on synodality focuses on the call for interior renewal and constant conversion. To quote an African adage: "The one who does not dig his field dies of hunger". Life is like a seed. Those…
For over a hundred years, the Comboni Missionaries have been working in north-eastern Uganda. “Being a missionary here means living side by side with the people, knowing their language and culture, and, if necessary, giving…
It has been identified as one of the few plant species that should be integrated in the domestication process in farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa to support the medicinal, nutritional and income security of local…
It is one of the indigenous festivals in Ghana celebrated by the Anlo people of Southern Ghana to commemorate the escape from the region of Notsie in Togo to their present abode in the Volta…
The Asantes perform rituals for their dead kinsmen and loved ones generally known as ayie (funeral) in the Akan language. They hold a general belief that death is but a transition into a next world…
In the Akan societies in Ghana especially among the Asantes, names and the process of naming are essential since everyone and almost every living entity has a place and mission in the world. The name of…
The challenge of the Pentecostal churches. Young people who only want to leave. The importance of having African missionaries as a stimulus to the local church. We spoke with Father Saa-Dade Ennin provincial superior of…
The Asantes, have a unique style of marriage ceremony. It is an important community engagement as it involves the couple, the couple’s immediate and extended families, and the community at large. Each ethnic group in Ghana has…
The regional ramifications of the clash in Khartoum have important appendages in N'Djamena. In fact, the various attempts at coups always started from neighbouring Sudan, with protagonists belonging to the fragmented Zaghawa community as well…
In novels and plays, in politics and in university classrooms. A lifetime of fighting for Pan-Africanism and women's rights. A model artist and activist for multiple generations. On May 31, Ama Ata Aidoo passed away; an…
The Asante are a group of people who form part of the Akan ethnic group in the central part of Ghana in the West African Sub-region. The Asantes were one Akan-speaking people who settled in the…
Over the last months, democracy and human rights have been endangered in several African countries. But Western countries either turn a blind eye or offer weak responses, based on the quest for natural resources or…
Years of protests and violent repression. The results of the Motlanthe Commission, which called for accountability for the violence, have been disregarded. In August, the country will go to the polls to elect its president. On 23…
What the Catholic Church is doing and what role it is playing in this electoral process. But above all the Church must motivate Catholics and all people of good will to run as candidates and…
The plant is widely used in traditional medicine to treat and prevent a wide range of diseases like dementia, Alzheimer, gastrointestinal disorders, as well as epilepsy, headache, asthma, inflammation and malaria. Dichrocephala integrifolia (Family Asteraceae) is…
The Latin American cartels, from Bolivians to Mexicans. The Italian 'Ndrangheta. The ‘friendships’ with African entrepreneurs and politicians. Diffusion and complicity in an expanding market. It was May 2021 when in an Interpol operation, with the…
It is one of the most dangerous basins in the world for the gases contained in its seabed and for the possibility, not only theoretical, of explosions. For once, the extraction of gas would be…
A group of educators, supported by Tangaza University College, have embarked on a civic education path to prevent violence in Nairobi's populous neighbourhoods. A path that serves to bring out the Utu culture, full Humanity.…
Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda are the main transit countries for heroin. West Africa, that of cocaine. Morocco is the kingdom of cannabis. The African continent has experienced significant increases in drug trafficking in recent…
The most important and sacred Asante stool is the ‘Golden Stool’. It represents the authority of the Asantehene (king), enshrines the soul of the nation, and symbolizes the kingdom’s unity. Among the Asante and other Akan…
Africa's development prospects are increasingly linked to the ecological transition. Solar, wind and green hydrogen could help boost economic growth and generate wealth and jobs. Sun, water, wind. These are the essential elements for the production…
Within an expanding market, the role of Africa is also becoming increasingly important. Not only as a place of transit but also for consumption. Cocaine in West Africa, cannabis in the North, heroin in the…
North African countries, in particular, are trying to cope with water shortages with new desalination plants. However, they risk having a serious impact on marine ecosystems and fishing activities. The worsening water emergency is one of…
After decades of harsh prohibition, several African states have opted for policies that tend to liberalize or decriminalize the use of narcotic substances, especially those considered light. Drug use is on the rise across the continent,…
The project has taken its first steps and has a triple objective: to enhance local potential, finance missionary activities, and open new pastoral spaces. In the African context, a new experience of social enterprises is also…
Northeast of Lagos (Nigeria), near the city of Osogbo (also spelled Oshogbo), the last sacred forest of the Yoruba culture resists the advance of time and ‘civilization’. We are talking about Osun-Osogbo, a suggestive place,…
The country is trying everything to recover from the deep economic crisis deriving, first, from the Covid-19 pandemic, then from the continuation of the Russian-Ukrainian war, and is also trying to strengthen its international relations. The…
It is a series of six short films produced by Netflix made by young directors of the Continent. The project, supported by UNESCO, aims to enhance African cultural wealth. The young African cinema grows and develops…
Between 1600 and 1900 the city of Abomey was the pride of the kingdom of Dahomey (today's Benin). Court art developed there, in which genius, talent, and inspiration served above all to exalt the figure…
The honeymoon is over between the World’s first cobalt producer, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the main consumer and producer of batteries for electric vehicles, China. The terms of the existing infrastructure-for-minerals deals may…
The Kunama ethnic group resides mainly in the Gash-Barka region of Eritrea, between the Gash and Setit rivers, in the western and north-western regions of Tigray and in small areas of Sudan. There are an…
At St Michael’s Hospital in Donomanga, Chad, a team of health professionals, co-ordinated by the Mexican Comboni Missionary Brother and medical doctor, Juan Carlos Salgado, does everything possible to ensure that patients are treated with…
After the initiation ceremony (Anfura-la) or the passage from adolescence to youth, the young Kunama sets out to find a girl to marry. This phase is also marked by some rites, such as that of…
When the Kunama are asked: ‘Ayshila mekobino?’, they reply: ‘Ánnala'la makobinke’ (we believe in God). The word ‘Anna’ (God) comes from the word ‘Annena’ (in Kunama it means creator). The Kunama believe in Anna (God) who…
The life of the Kunama, from birth to old age – and even after death, is a tapestry of traditional rites and ceremonies handed down from the ancient fathers (ande) and scrupulously observed. The first of…
An initiative of the Huruma Self-Help Group, it makes credit accessible to that segment of the population excluded from formal economic circuits. It all started in the Christian communities of Kariobangi, a suburb of Nairobi. In…
The political instability seen before, the ethnic tensions both in the country and in the region, the collapse of the institutions in some of the neighbouring countries (first Mali then Burkina Faso) and other factors…
In the eastern regions of the country, strong presence of Wagner paramilitaries, arms traffickers, and former soldiers of the Foreign Legion. Former soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces, veterans of the French Foreign Legion, businessmen engaged in…
Competing for the continent are the French Groupe Castel and the Dutch Heineken. An informal economy strongly rooted not only in the villages but also in the big cities, slow and insufficiently extensive distribution channels for…
The revelation that 2.5 tonnes of uranium were missing from a warehouse in Southern Libya, by the International Atomic Energy Agency provides one more example of the damaging consequences of the 2011 attack by NATO…
The upcoming World Synod of Bishops and its preparations in synodal processes around the world show how the signs of the times challenge the Church today in the light of the Gospel. We can no…
A leading country in West Africa, Ivory Coast has weaknesses that could not only block economic development but also lead to turmoil. The consequences of two civil wars fought in the past decades are still…
Ingoma Nshya is the country's first female percussion troupe. Reconciliation, healing and peace are part of the group journey. We went to meet them. About 125 kilometres south of Kigali, and after an endless sequence of hills,…
The extraction and export of fossil deposits from the Mozambican province has grown in recent years. The benefits go into the pockets of Indian and Maputo companies. The local population not only does not see…
The wounds caused by the two civil wars are still open since they have not yet been healed. The politicians, the soldiers and the militias that committed crimes against the population for the most part have…
He received the appointment as auxiliary bishop with "fear and trembling". But with a great desire to serve the church. We spoke about it with the Combonian Msgr. António Manuel Bogaio Constantino was recently consecrated…
The prolonged phase of unrest reduced the influence of Ivory Coast on the international scene. During the Houphouet-Boigny era the Ivorian president was a powerbroker in the region. He was considered a pillar of Francafrique, the…
Fantasy and imagination but above all, ingenuity. 200 apprentices from different walks of life train their hands to demonstrate that magic ‘makes the impossible, possible’. It is difficult to escape illusion and optimism when you…
This April, Rwanda commemorates the 29th anniversary of the genocide. The bitter fruit of the ethnic division between Hutu, Tutsi and Twa has distant roots. Father Marcel Uwineza, a Rwandan Jesuit reflects on those tragic…
By mid-February of this year, an investigation team of journalists from 30 outlets, including the London Guardian, The Washington Post, Le Monde and the Israeli daily Haaretz, under the supervision of the French-based non-profit Forbidden…
It is commonly referred to as velvet bush willow and is a medium-sized evergreen deciduous tree with a larger, straight trunk, rough bark, and dense crown. Combretum molle has been used in traditional medicine since…
It is the most important event celebrated by the Chiefs and people of Ashanti in the central part of Ghana. We attend the celebration. It is a magnificent celebration centred on ancestral reverence, remembrance and acknowledgment…
Australians and Chinese are investing in a project that could soon make the Sahelian country the third-largest producer of the metal in the world. An area of 100 km² located in the district of Bougouni, in the…
Climatic conditions make agricultural work in the Sahel more and more difficult. One of the countries most affected by this reality is Niger, where a large majority of farmers work in precarious conditions. Many initiatives…
In northern Kenya, in the Samburu region, many young girls are married off to adult men at an early age against their will. A Centre run by nuns welcomes them to give them dignity and a possible…
The Acholi people live in Northern Uganda. They have a rich and diverse cultural heritage. Most of it is expressed in a wide variety of rites, dance, and music. We look at Acholi traditional marriage. Marriage…
Activists Nonhle Mbuthuma and Sinegugu Zukulu have stopped destructive seismic testing for oil and gas off South Africa’s Eastern Cape, in an area known as…
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Kaya was the most beautiful girl in the village. All the boys courted her, each bringing her small gifts. There were so many invitations from her…
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While the country is in the grip of a serious economic crisis, in the oasis city of Tozeur, the OxyJeunes youth Centre focuses on schooling and…
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