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Victoria Engstrand-Neacsu

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Victoria Engstrand-Neacsu

‘Dumping is big business’ in Kenya

Some of the luxurious, lush suburbs of Nairobi justify the slogan that tourism promoters have given the Kenyan capital; ”The Green City under the Sun”. Quiet streets are lined by…

Risk of armed conflict over Nile water

Water, say some experts, is a much more likely reason for countries to go to war than oil, and in the largely arid countries along the river Nile in northeastern Africa, the lack…

Is Central African Republic on verge of democracy?

As the citizens of the Central African Republic go to the polls to choose a new president and parliament this weekend, experts differ on whether it is a step toward true…

Thousands of children go to war

When Napoleon Adok was 16 years old he saw his best friend blown to bits next to him. That was when he decided he had had enough of being a soldier. But he was not allowed to…

Christmas values flourish in slum

Life is anything but easy in Nairobi’s sprawling Kibera slum, which has been labelled one of the biggest and worst on the African continent, with HIV/Aids and unemployment…

A long way to Oslo for the Mother of Trees

The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s choice to give this year’s peace prize to an environmentalist was not entirely uncontroversial. The Economist newspaper wrote after the…