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Waiting: Refugees from many countries including those in Africa sit near the Medyka pedestrian border crossing with Poland to flee the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)
AFRICAN UNION

African governments scramble to help its citizens in Ukraine

Africans, among them South Africans, Nigerians, Ghanains, Congolese and Ivorians, are trying to flee into Poland and other countries neighbouring Ukraine

  • Louise Dewast
4 min read
Colonisers’ boundary: A South African National Defence Force member guards suspected undocumented Zimbabwean nationals after they attempted to illegally. (Phill Magakoe/AFP)
AMAGUMAGUMA

Zimbabwe: How women are taking over cross-border smuggling

When Covid-19 hit and borders closed, people still needed to bring their groceries into Zimbabwe. Some women have taken the chance to earn a bit of cash

  • Marko Phiri
5 min read