Africa has started vaccinating against the coronavirus. But do citizens trust their governments on vaccine safety?
New Afrobarometer surveys help explain vaccine reluctance in five West African countries
The pandemic has worsened Africa’s debt crisis. China and other countries are stepping in.
Chinese banks have been restructuring African debt for the past two decades
How women helped rally mass protests against Nigeria’s police corruption
Too many people ignore African women’s political agency
The price of oil was actually negative last week. What happens next?
Cheap oil is causing pain from Texas to Nigeria.
The Trump administration approved the U.S. use of land mines. That’s a step back for global campaigns to ban their deployment.
It isn’t clear whether land mines offer any military advantages