Increasingly brutal attacks on Christian villages have been explained as the result of conflict over diminishing resources.

John F. Kennedy wrote for America on the brewing crisis between France and Algeria in 1957. Algeria gained independence from France in July 1962.

Born in Togo in 1967, Sister Marie Stella Kouak attended nursing school in Belgium and returned in 1998 to work at a pediatric hospital in Dapaong run by her congregation, now known as the Sister Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The former president of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, gave voice to the thoughts of many in Africa when he wondered if George Floyd's murder "cannot shock the American populace to see evidence of their own decline, what can?"

The Mara region of Tanzania, of which Musoma is the capital, has some of that country's highest rates of child marriage and female genital mutilation, even though both are technically illegal in Tanzania.

As under Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s contemporary political elite continue to trample on civil libertie with what the same disregard of censure from both local moral authorities and international human rights organizations.