Kenya: Mt. Kenya Glaciers to Vanish By 2030 - Environmentalist Lewis Pugh

What's the context? Endurance athlete and environmentalist Lewis Pugh said witnessing the Lewis Glacier on Mount Kenya was a "shocking sight". Read more »

Kenya: After a Year of Big Cuts, Where Does U.S. Aid Stand Going Into 2026?

What's the context? U.S. foreign aid more than halved in 2025, leaving millions at risk of losing their lives to malaria, malnutrition and HIV. Read more »

Tanzania: How an Internet Blackout Affected Tanzania's Election

What's the context? A nationwide internet outage during last week's vote fits a pattern of electoral interference and may fuel abuses, activists say. Read more »

Kenya: Kenyan LGBTQ+ Safe Houses 'Overwhelmed' As Cuts Hit Refugee Camps

What's the context? Nairobi's queer safe houses are pushed to the brink as LGBTQ+ refugees flee hunger in Kakuma camp hit by aid cuts. Read more »

Madagascar: 'I Will Keep Marching' - the View From Madagascar's Streets

What's the context? Why are Antananarivo's young people on the streets? A protest organiser explains. Read more »

Kenya: Sex for Fish - U.S. Aid Cuts Revive Risky Behaviour in Kenya

What's the context? Every dollar of lost aid pushes a girl into risky sex and denies a gay man his HIV meds - Kenyan clinician. Read more »

Africa: Courts Push Back On Meta's Legal Strategy

What we have concluded about Meta's legal strategy following our cases against the tech giant. Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Digital Crackdown Having 'Chilling' Effect On Rights

What's the context? A year after Gen Z protests, rights group Access Now calls for repeal of Kenya's cybercrimes law as online crackdown intensifies. Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's International Justice Mission Says Police Must Be Held to Account for Killings

We need more than hashtags. We must swiftly hold police officers to account and conduct a radical surgery of the police system. Read more »

Kenya: 'Dignity for All Who Bleed' - Trans, Non-Binary Kenyans Face Menstruation Stigma

What's the context? Kenyan trans and non-binary people fear buying sanitary pads, but there are signs of change. Read more »

Kenya: In Kenyan Refugee Camp, U.S. Aid Cuts Mean No Period Pads, No School

What's the context? Girls in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp are particularly hard hit by U.S. aid cuts as period supplies run out, food is cut. Read more »

Kenya: Trans Refugees Fear Abuse, Death As Kenya Plans to Integrate Camps

What's the context? Some trans refugees say the Kenyan government's Shirika plan to integrate the camps into society puts them in even greater danger. Read more »

Kenya: LGBTQ+ Refugees Say Kenya's Reform Plan Risks Leaving Them Out

What's the context? Kenya plans to turn the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps into open cities. But LGBTQ+ refugees say their needs are being ignored. Read more »

Kenya: Righting Colonial-Era Wrongs in Land Rights

The continued dominance of colonial-imposed laws over pre-existing customary legal systems, has been the bane of land rights disputes involving indigenous peoples across the globe… Read more »

Sudan: 'It's About Freedom' - Women On the Frontline of Uprising

When public protests erupted in Sudan over the rising cost of bread almost two months ago, women's rights activist Hala Al-Karib did not hesitate to join the masses on the streets… Read more »

Kenya: With Refrigerated ATMs, Camel Milk Business Thrives

Halima Sheikh Ali is the proud owner of one of the few ATMs in Wajir town in northeast Kenya. But rather than doling out shilling notes, it dispenses something tastier: a fresh… Read more »

Tanzania: Maasai Clash With Tanzania in Court Over Eviction From Serengeti

Maasai herders near Tanzania's famous Serengeti wildlife park have asked a regional court to stop the government intimidating witnesses supporting their legal bid to return to… Read more »

South Sudan: Going to School Unlikely If You're a Girl - Report Says

"Over 130 million girls are still out of school - that's over 130 million potential engineers, entrepreneurs, teachers and politicians whose leadership the world is missing out on" Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Traders Battle Food Waste With a New Ally - Camels

A herd of camels have become a low-carbon food waste recycling system in a Nairobi market - and they produce milk Read more »

Madagascar: Eight Things You Didn't Know About Madagascar

Amid a punishing drought, more than 1.1 million people are unable to feed themselves Read more »

Eritrea: Forced Labour Built Canadian Mine in Test Case - Former Official

Hundreds of men drafted into Eritrea's army were used as forced labour to build a Canadian company's copper-gold mine in central Eritrea, according to a former construction… Read more »

Africa: Protecting Mangroves Can Lower Disaster Risks, Offer Cash - Experts

Better protecting the world's fast-disappearing mangroves could have big economic, social and environmental benefits, experts said at the U.N. climate talks in Lima this week. Read more »