UK border rules are harsher for Africans

22 July 2021 Taimour Lay A Ghanaian business owner wants to visit London for a conference. A Ugandan student is awarded a scholarship at Oxford University. A political activist from Zimbabwe seeks humanitarian protection. A Sudanese girl stranded in Greece dreams of joining her refugee brother in Birmingham.Every year, just like […]

The Egypt-Sudan Border Dispute

22 July 2021 Sudan borders Egypt to the south, with both countries having a coastline along the Red Sea. The two countries share a 1,276 kilometers long border that runs eastwards from Gabal El Uweinat, a tripod area on the Sudanese-Egyptian-Libyan border, along the 22nd parallel north. The border follows a straight line from […]

Ethiopia’s controversial mega-dam

8 July 2021 By AFP Ethiopia’s controversial mega-dam construction on the upper Nile River has caused a decade of regional tensions. Ethiopia’s construction of a massive dam on a tributary of the Nile River, which the UN Security Council meets about on Thursday, is raising regional tensions notably with Egypt, which […]

Borders

10 July 2021 ART: QUARTZ/DANIEL LEE. PHOTO: REUTERS/HANNAH MCKAY   Borders are arbitrary lines on a map, but they have real impact on where we live and work, and the ways we trade and transact. How porous or rigid they are is determined mainly by policy, sometimes geography, and occasionally by […]