For Zambian subsistence farmers losing a crop means going hungry, leaving few resources to spare when the health system cannot help them.
Oxfam’s money transfer scheme in Malawi gives vulnerable citizens access to basic foodstuffs. The NGO’s <b>Nicole Johnston</b> visits the country.
In an almost forgotten corner of Zimbabwe, the BaTonga people try to scratch a living from the dessicated earth of the Binga district.
In an almost forgotten corner of Zimbabwe the BaTonga people try to scratch a living from the dessicated earth of the Binga district.
"Migration has been happening since time immemorial. The United States was built as a nation of immigrants. Migration happens. Fact."
Anne Marie fled the Rwandan genocide in 1994. But her new life in South African was shattered in the 2008 xenophobia attacks.
Dosso Ndessomin knows all about xenophobia — but he also knows how many South Africans are welcoming to foreign nationals.
Jacques Kikonga Kamanda is a gentle leader of refugees. But he wants the South African government to do its job — and avoid catastrophe.
Safia (17) has never been to Somalia and lived in South Africa all her life. But her "otherness" is often used to exclude her.
As part of a series on xenophobia, the <i>M&G</i> presents the Sowda Hussen Mohamud story…
While the nation may have rallied behind Ghana as "Africa’s hope", refugees and migrants fear that come July 12 the solidarity may have withered away.
Threats of more attacks on foreigners after the World Cup are already becoming a reality and many Somalis are fleeing to “Little Mogadishu".
Climate change is affecting the annual Kuomboka ceremony of the Lozi people of western Zambia –Ancient ways in deep water and their way of life.
The war in Mozambique may have ended 18 years ago, but its legacy lives on in the classrooms of rural schools in Zambezia province.
A series of quakes has left people too frightened to sleep indoors until a geological survey is concluded.
Vast swaths of a once-fertile country have become wastelands and life for rural Malawians is now even tougher, reports Nicole Johnston.
Nicole Johnston goes bed-hopping in the Western Cape, from boutique backpackers to five-star eco-luxury resorts.
Nicole Johnston savours the (vegetarian) culinary delights of Dubai.
Nicole Johnston goes on a survival course with author Lee Gutteridge and learns about the birds and the bees and the plants and the trees.
Incompetent prosecution often frustrates the intention of minimum sentencing legislation.
