Uganda

Campaigners hope that the global reckoning that has followed the killing of George Floyd and seen statues of men involved in the slave trade being toppled in the US and across Europe will re-ignite the push to "decolonize" the country. … [Read more...] about From Uganda to Nigeria, activists are calling on their governments to remove colonialists’ names from streets

The Rev. Sammy Wainaina, of Kenya’s All Saints Cathedral, who received treatment for the virus in an intensive care unit in June, said he felt compelled to publicly share his status. Consequently he was "treated badly,” he said, recalling people in his neighborhood who seemed eager to avoid him. … [Read more...] about In Africa, stigma surrounding coronavirus hinders response

Since the 1970s, it has been the focus of one of the most intensive, high-profile campaigns to recover an endangered species, after a census by the Chinese government found around 2,459 pandas in the world -- proof of its precarious position, according to the World Wildlife Fund. … [Read more...] about Good news and bad news for the animal kingdom