Deadly stampede at University of Johannesburg
Students had been waiting in line for days
View ArticleKitchen crusade
Toronto has more great restaurants than great chefs, but of the many places where the empire city’s first-rank power brokers hang out, none is more socially significant and brazenly chic than Canoe,...
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Grace under fire
Stefano Rellandini/Reuters There is always, in the spiritual and political life of the Roman Catholic Church, a fire smouldering somewhere: minority Christians under persecution here, an abortion...
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Crossing The Heart Of Africa
Where have all the heroic men gone? U.S. travel journalist Julian Smith may have unearthed a compelling subject in Ewart “the Leopard” Grogan, a 19th-century British adventurer, yet it leaves one...
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This week: Good news, bad news
Good news This dog was found drifting on a rooftop 1.8 km off the coast of Japan Japan Coast Guard/AP A Canuck Cup fave? The Vancouver Canucks captured the President’s Trophy, awarded to the NHL’s top...
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Congolese women are being raped at a rate of one almost every minute
Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images Statistics coming out of Congo are rarely uplifting, but a new study on sexual violence reveals a nearly inconceivable situation: Congolese women are being raped at a...
View ArticleWal-Mart goes to Africa
Globalization can be a risky business. Starbucks was forced to close its Israeli branches in 2003 because Israelis preferred their own coffee chains, and Kellogg’s expansion into India failed...
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Tanzania: land of constant complaints
Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images In Tanzania, is it that they complain too much, or they expect too much? Since the beginnings of economic and political liberalization in the 1990s, the nation has...
View ArticleIs this foreign aid?
Elizabeth Payne wonders what’s going on at CIDA. Oda announced four CIDA projects – totalling $26.7 million – in September that will “help developing countries in Africa and South America manage their...
View Article‘To the benefit of large corporations’
The Liberals are unimpressed with the Conservatives’ use of foreign aid funds. “The Liberal Party supports the efforts of Canadian companies working abroad to fulfill their corporate social...
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The trouble with ‘Kony 2012’
Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters Kony 2012, the YouTube film about the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa and its leader, Joseph Kony, took the world—at least that portion connected by...
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Dambisa Moyo on resource scarcity, and China’s race for deals
Photographs by Andrew Tolson Zambian-born, Oxford- and Harvard-trained economist Dambisa Moyo, 43, first rose to prominence with her bestselling 2009 polemic Dead Aid. In it she argued that development...
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The Cola Road, Week 1: How Coke crates could save lives
Photo: Getty Images; Editing: Maclean's Claire Ward is a former associate editor at Maclean’s and is pursuing a Master’s in news and documentary at New York University. For the next five weeks, she...
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A different kind of Chinese investment in Africa…
Eugene Hoshiko/AP The pipeline for Africa’s top soccer talent may lead through Europe, but the end point is now China. Chelsea star Didier Drogba, an Ivory Coast native, led the British squad to a...
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An African health minister’s dilemmas
Zambia Minister of Health Joseph Kasonde. Photo: Claire Ward. Claire Ward is a former associate editor at Maclean’s and is pursuing a Master’s in news and documentary at New York University. She is...
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When it comes to bogus health reporting and policy, it really is a small world
Getty Images The morning started late at the United Nations conference centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. On the gated compound—surrounded by muddy roads, and a mash-up of steel huts, unfinished...
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Why cheap phones are a force of good
(Beck Diefenbach/Reuters) In light of yesterday’s post about how the expensive iPhone may be counter-productive to societal goals, I thought it might be prudent to also touch on the other side as well....
View ArticleBill C-398 defeated
A sufficient number of Conservatives voted against Bill C-398 tonight to defeat the private members’ bill that was intended to make it easier to send generic medicine to developing countries. A...
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Cheap beer made from cassava and sorghum launched in Africa
Johannes Myburgh/AFP/Getty Images The era of home brew in Africa may be coming to an end. SABMiller, the world’s second-largest brewer, is wooing the continent’s illegal drinkers with dirt-cheap beer....
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Africa gets on the Monopoly board
Sunday Alamba/AP Forget Boardwalk: players scheming and dealing real estate in the latest version of Monopoly will have their sights set on Banana Island. The man-made island is home to the wealthiest...
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Nigeria under siege
Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images Is Africa’s most populous nation becoming the latest battleground in the global war on terror? Last week, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan proclaimed emergency...
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Obama in Africa: ‘It could have been so much more’
Doug Mills/The New York Times/Redux U.S. President Barack Obama made his first extended sub-Saharan African trip in style. His entourage included hundreds of Secret Service agents, cargo planes, 14...
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What most Canadians don’t know about Africa
Scott Gilmour. Photo by Blair Gable. In 2014, the gap between what Canadians think they know about Africa and what is actually happening will begin to narrow. For most, the continent only brings to...
View ArticleBinyavanga Wainaina reads from his coming-out chapter
The memoirist Binyavanga Wainaina is arguably the best-known Kenyan writer of his generation, a big-spirited iconoclast, the founder of the influential publisher/literary magazine Kwani?, was recently...
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The African memoirist who dared to come out
Binyavanga Wainaina. (Photo by Cole Garside for Maclean’s) For his 43rd birthday this past January, the Kenyan memoirist Binyavanga Wainaina, the best-known Kenyan writer of his generation, gave...
View ArticleBinyavanga Wainaina: ‘I want to be exhausted at the end of my trip’
Binyavanga Wainaina is the best-known Kenyan writer of his generation, one of Time‘s 100 most influential people, the founder of the influential literary magazine/publisher Kwani?—and a gay man in...
View ArticleEbola case count could rise to between 77,000 and 277,000 by year’s end
TORONTO – The case count in West Africa’s unprecedented Ebola outbreak could grow by tens or even hundreds of thousands of cases before the end of this year, a new study suggests. The work, published...
View ArticleCanada prepping for potential Ebola cases but still sees risk as low
Canada is considering placing doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine in hospitals around the country that have been designated to treat Ebola cases if any arrive in the country, the new chief public...
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M.G. Vassanji travels back to Tanzania
Jaime Hogge Not long ago, at the airport in Dar es Salaam, M.G. Vassanji was questioned by a Tanzanian immigration official. When the acclaimed novelist answered in Swahili, the official asked why a...
View ArticleColonel appointed transitional leader after Burkina Faso coup
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso – Burkina Faso’s army appointed a military colonel as transitional leader on Saturday, it said, after the West African country’s president resigned from 27 years in office...
View ArticleCanada’s visa ban is against the spirit of health regulations: WHO
TORONTO – Canada appears to have used a loophole — a rather large one — to justify to the World Health Organization its decision to stop issuing visas to residents and nationals of Ebola-affected...
View ArticleEbola in West Africa has hampered fight against malaria
GUECKEDOU, Guinea – West Africa’s fight to contain Ebola has hampered the campaign against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that is claiming many thousands more lives than the dreaded...
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Beyond the pale: Living with albinism in Africa
(Patricia Willocq/Art in All of Us/Corbis) On Boxing Day 2010, Emily Urquhart delivered a baby girl, the fairest of them all, in a hospital in St. John’s, N.L. With her ethereal shock of white hair,...
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Could legalizing the rhino-horn trade save the rhinos?
(MARCO LONGARI/AFP/Getty Images) Later this month, rhino breeder John Hume will appear in court to fight the South African government’s ban on the trade in rhino horn. Hume, a private owner of 1,157...
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Homegoing is a dazzling, million-dollar debut novel set in Ghana
HOMEGOING By Yaa Gyasi At the end of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, Milkman, the hero, leaps into the air, launching himself back in time to Africa before the advent of the middle passage. But...
View ArticleArmy headed for Africa, says top general
OTTAWA – Canada’s army will soon be bound for Africa, Canada’s top soldier said Thursday, fuelling speculation that it will be deployed on a peacekeeping operation to control the spread of terrorism on...
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Canada will join UN efforts in Africa for a ‘long duration’
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA — The federal government will soon announce a plan to bolster United Nations peace efforts in Africa, including trans-border operations, Defence Minister Harjit...
View ArticleSouth Sudan ‘sliding into catastrophe’ as famine spreads
AWEIL, South Sudan – Two months after the world’s youngest nation declared a famine amid its civil war, hunger has become more widespread than expected, aid workers say. South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el...
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