Africa Flak

There’s a part of me that has to hand it to Lansana Conte and his henchmen in Guinea Conakry. Like Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equator...

I've been busy for the past few weeks. Queue guitar, drums and keyboards: How does it feel … to be on your own, no destination home, a ...

From Washington Post : World rice production will hit a record high this year, but increasing demand and restrictions on exports will ke...

Yesterday, Zimbabwean police arrested independent editor Davison Maruziva for publishing an Op-Ed piece on April 20 by a prominent oppositi...

Maybe a command economy isn’t so bad, after all. Just days after a Gambian newspaper claimed that even with a poor rice crop, the country w...

It’s not everyday Liberians can be proud of their former leaders, writes Alien in Liberia . But they received some good news the other day: ...

Since the early 1980s, the Niger River has experienced a 55 percent decrease in flow, driving down fish stocks and making navigation difficu...