The trans-Atlantic slave trade that sent 12.5 million human beings in chains from Africa to the Americas — killing about two million along the way — has been described by the historian David... Read more
By Simegnish “Lily” Mengesha/CPJ Guest Blogger On Sunday Ethiopians go to the polls in the country’s fifth general election since the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Demo... Read more
Spanish Police have found an eight-year-old Ivorian boy hidden in a suitcase that was smuggled across the border into territory in north Africa, officials have said. A 19-year-old woman took... Read more
By Adagbo Onoja We are all most likely still aware of this old but still very interesting theory of global politics which says that great powers constitute and are constituted by a tragedy b... Read more
By Kerry Paterson/CPJ Africa Research Associate It will be one year this weekend since six bloggers were arrested in Addis Ababa, just days after the group announced on Facebook that their Z... Read more