Senegal The voyage from the struggling Senegalese fishing town of Fass Boye to Spain’s Canary Islands, a gateway to the European Union where they hoped to find work, was supposed to take a week. But the wooden boat carrying 101 men and boys was getting blown further and further away from its destination. No land … Read more
China’s expansionist approach throughout the African continent has been much debated across various international platforms. Its financial contributions to the African region in the past couple of decades have substantially increased many-folds and has made the Chinese state amongst the largest contributor and lender to the continent. However, in the varied discussions and debates that … Read more
Aug. 13, 2021 — A virus known as “Ebola’s deadly cousin” has been spotted for the first time in West Africa. The Marburg virus, which causes a severe disease that is in the same virus family that causes Ebola, has been identified in southwest Guinea near the borders of Sierra Leone and Liberia, according … Read more