
WASHINGTON D.C.—Former top Hillary Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Jean-Louis Warnholz are quietly cashing in on State Department intelligence that Clinton received from her adviser Sidney Blumenthal about an energy crisis in Africa.
by Patrick Howley1 Nov 2015, 5:23 PM PST0

Contents: Burundi’s president Nkurunziza continues to provoke Hutu-Tutsi tensions; Greece’s Tsipras lashes out at his own party as new vote approaches; Where will Greece’s 86 billion euro bailout come from?
by John J. Xenakis22 Jul 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

The government of North Korea has rightfully gained a reputation in the West for isolation and obstinacy, but its diplomatic ventures in Africa have poised it to be significantly more influential on that continent than potentially anywhere else.
by Frances Martel17 Jul 2015, 9:04 AM PST0

Five albino children from Tanzania are receiving care at Shriners Hospital in North Philadelphia after witch doctors cut off their arms and hands, according to a superstition that says the limbs of albinos are good luck charms that bring fortune and wealth.
by John Hayward21 Jun 2015, 8:56 AM PST0

It is one of these stories that can be told in a single sentence: Cambodia is training an elite squad of giant rats imported from Africa to detect landmines.
by John Hayward21 Jun 2015, 8:25 AM PST0

As the 2016 election in Uganda approach, officials have begun working to crack down on an increasingly popular witchcraft trend in the African nation: child sacrifice, typically the result of extreme mutilations while the child is alive that leaves them unable to recover.
by Frances Martel18 Jun 2015, 10:12 AM PST0

Tanzania’s federal government has been forced to issue a warning to politicians competing in the October elections not to engage in witchcraft in an attempt to improve their odds of winning, reminding candidates that witchcraft was banned nationally in January and any attacks on people with albinism–whose bodies are used in good luck potions–will be prosecuted.
by Frances Martel3 Jun 2015, 7:19 AM PST0

20,000 refugees flee violence in Burundi, fearing Hutu-Tutsi war; Generational history of Hutu and Tutsi tribes
by John J. Xenakis30 Apr 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

As attacks on albinos continue to rise in Malawi, the government ordered all police to shoot anyone attacking albinos on the spot.
by Mary Chastain12 Apr 2015, 6:26 AM PST0

A man in Malawi was arrested this week for attempting to murder a 16-year-old albino boy. Authorities say attacks against people with albinism have risen in the past year, as witch doctors claim potions made with the body parts of albinos can change the fate of those willing to pay to kill them.
by Frances Martel13 Mar 2015, 7:59 AM PST0

In Tanzania, over 200 witchdoctors and soothsayers have been arrested for murdering albinos in order to sell their body parts.
by William Bigelow13 Mar 2015, 7:02 AM PST0

Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe has been hospitalized to treat an injury he sustained during an African Safari. The injury happened three weeks ago while the governor was in Tanzania with his family. On Christmas Day, McAuliffe was thrown from a
by John Sexton19 Jan 2015, 2:23 PM PST0

The government of Tanzania has outlawed witch doctors in response to the increasingly widespread practice of hunting albino individuals to use their body parts in magic spells. Witch doctors have convinced clients that the body parts of an albino can bring good luck and attract money, which has led to the killing of at least 70 albino individuals and the disfigurement of countless others.
by Frances Martel15 Jan 2015, 8:19 AM PST0

Concern is growing for the Christian populations of Kenya and Tanzania, as jihadists are widening their sphere of influence across East Africa, a leading charity for persecuted Christians has warned. Release International has identified Iraq as the worst place to
by Donna Rachel Edmunds30 Dec 2014, 6:06 AM PST0