Ireti Bakare-Yusuf pressed South African officials on a minister's "drug dens" remark. They demanded respect, while their government's cruelty toward African immigrants, evictions, evacuations, vigilante violence, went unaddressed
The continent that bled to end apartheid now has a name for what South Africa is doing to its children: Afrophobia. Four people are the main architects of the hate campaign, none has been charged.
Marches swept all nine provinces, a movement fractured in public view, a weekly protest declaration changed the shape of the campaign, and six African governments are still waiting for accountability.
A brief history of a country that owes its freedom to the continent it is now expelling, the men and women leading the charge, the politicians enabling them, and an election in November that explains everything Ramaphosa is not saying.
The skies turned blue again, the rivers turned clean again, but the ground occasionally sinks without warning. Inside Germany’s long complicated goodbye to coal.
President Ruto says hosting the facility is the humane thing to do. Washington's own diplomats say he misjudged his people. Three deaths in Nanyuki suggest otherwise. The domestic system to treat Americans exists. The U.S. is choosing not to use it. Kenya is absorbing the consequences of that choice.
Two movements have set a June 30 ultimatum demanding that undocumented African migrants leave South Africa. In reality, documented migrants are fleeing too. President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on June 7 and still would not name either movement.
Pope Leo XIV issued the most specific papal apology for slavery in history. The same week, the United States, Israel, and Argentina cast the only votes against a UN resolution declaring the slave trade the gravest crime against humanity.
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