Warning: This is a hard topic, and some images may be triggering On March 11, Cyclone Freddy slammed into Southern Africa for the second time this year. Harsh winds and drenching rains pummeled Mozambique and then moved inland to Malawi, inducing widespread flooding and landslides. The effects were devastating. On […]
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A New Home for South African Penguins
A project has been launched in South Africa to create a home for African shore penguins, (yay!) whose numbers have declined in recent years ????. African penguins are found in southwest Africa ????, inhabiting twenty-four islands from the central coast of Namibia to Algoa Bay on the east coast of […]
Protests in Peru after the President’s Impeachment
In early December the former president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, attempted an illegal self-coup but failed when his ministers and the military stopped backing him. While he was president, he tried to take power for himself, and this is why people have called it a ‘self-coup.’ This failed as he […]
Effects of the Military Coup in Myanmar
On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military junta seized control of the government in a military coup with General Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of the army, in charge. Millions of people went to the streets all across the country in largely peaceful protests, wanting the previous multi-party election to go […]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo: Rebel Forces Marching Towards Goma
In the colonial era, two of the main powers that decided to colonize Africa were Britain and France. Over several months during the Berlin Conference in 1884, they divided up Africa just by drawing lines on a map. Britain wanted a series of colonies stretching from Cape-town to Cairo, and […]