Voodoo economics: How wildlife trade for ritual use is wiping out Africa's vultures

For some people, the mention of voodoo evokes something like a scene from the James Bond novel "Live and Let Die," featuring ...
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Bridges of Liberation: Jewish & African Paths to Freedom

The titles and roles I hold—including Honorary Consul for the Republic of Togo, Former Special Envoy for Diaspora Affairs for ...
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Ciara's Beninese Citizenship - Marketing Ploys Can't Heal the Past

African American singer Ciara received citizenship from the Republic of Benin in 2025 as a descendant of enslaved Africans. The images of her ceremony at Ouidah's slave route memorial site, "Door of ...
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Iyad Ag Ghaly: Nomad who became Sahel's top jihadist leader

Ag Ghaly, the son of nomadic herders, became radicalised in the 1990s. He was "in contact in Mali with members of Jamaat Dawa Wa Tabligh that was promoting Salafism in north and west Africa," said ...

The new terror map of Africa: How continent is becoming a hotbed of terrorism as Islamist slaughter spreads

Once isolated insurgencies in remote deserts and jungles have turned into full-blown wars of terror, turning several regions into some of the deadliest battlegrounds in the world.
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Remarkable Documents Lay Bare New York’s History of Slavery

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.