I’m ashamed to be African and an asylum seeker
I am so ashamed as an African, l am so ashamed as an asylum seeker here in Cyprus. We left our home countries because of...
Africa
Germany will offer Africa up to 70 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses, Merkel says
Germany will make up to 70 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday, more than...
Risking jail to leave Cyprus
Surge in cases of African migrants using fake or stolen ID to get to other EU countries Stricter controls at airports due to the pandemic,...
Macron says France will help Africa make more Covid-19 vaccines locally
President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday France would invest in boosting the production of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa, to help close a gap in the...
Where have all the Greeks gone? The story of Greeks in Africa
From Egypt to South Africa, the Greeks came in their thousands, and then they left By George Philipas Today there remain only few Greeks in...
Slavery, history and the past being another country
By Gwynne Dyer “Assessing the people of America’s past by today’s standards would compel us to cast the majority of our heroes as villains.” That seemed...
Suspected people smuggler arrested in the north
Authorities in the north arrested a Turkish Cypriot man who was caught trying to smuggle four third-country nationals into the government-controlled areas, reports said on...
Shakespeare would recognise Lady Macbeth of Maseru
By Gwynne Dyer First there was ‘Macbeth’, the Shakespeare play (1606). It’s a bloody play even by Shakespeare’s demanding standards, with Lady Macbeth as the chief...
Thousands flee deadly violence in Cameroon’s separatist regions – sources
Thousands have fled a fresh flare-up of violence in Cameroon’s separatist English-speaking regions in the past few days, a local security source and a government...
Congo races to contain Ebola after gold miner contaminates several in Goma
Congolese authorities were racing to contain an Ebola epidemic on Thursday, after a gold miner with a large family contaminated several people in the east’s...
