A small firm in Ethiopia is recycling old tyres and turning them into funky fashion that’s gone global, reports Xan Rice.
Abdulmutallab remained a humble, if solitary young man who shunned material possessions and craved knowledge.
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/ 4 December 2009
As a gay Ugandan, Frank Mugisha has endured insults from strangers, hate messages on his phone, police harassment and being outed in a tabloid.
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/ 20 November 2009
Western Sahara’s most prominent human rights activist has gone on a hunger strike at an airport in the Canary Islands.
An amnesty deal by the Nigerian government for militants in the Niger Delta aimed at reducing unrest in the oil-rich region came into effect this week
A bleak desert becomes useful as Kenya plans the continent’s biggest wind farm. Xan Rice reports.
Rwanda’s suitability for Commonwealth membership this year has been questioned because of its human rights record.
The giraffe population of Kenya’s Masai Mara game reserve has declined up to 95% because of increased human settlement around the unfenced park.
Up to 650 000 people in Darfur have been left without access to full healthcare, writes Xan Rice.
Police killings during the post-election violence in January 2008 and a counter-insurgency campaign have been criticised by human rights groups.