STONETOWN, Zanzibar
George and Mike are cocky about their sexual exploits until Ali arrives.
“I’m a f__ machine!” sings George,…
KHWISERO, Kenya
Three women clutching purple Christmas garlands walk towards us as a dozen or so rural farmers dressed in their Sunday best sing,…
NAIROBI
Depending on whom you talk to here, presidential hopeful Raila Odinga is a man, or a boy, with a problem.
NAIROBI
Is there a difference between gun-toting thugs robbing and murdering at will and a trigger-happy police force killing “suspects”…
Many areas in Darfur have never seen an African Union patrol, says Kenya’s Capt. Sankale Shamata, who served for more than a year in the…
NAIROBI
Kibera Kid touches — no, make that scuffs — a nerve in Nairobi’s emerging middle class.
KAJIADO
Kajiado waited for the president in silence.
A one-intersection town in the sun-bleached Rift Valley, Kajiado residents politely polished…
MOMBASA, Kenya
As I stared in disbelief at the five erect wooden penises, Chris, my disabled tour guide at the Bombolulu Workshop, leaned forward on…
KUMASI, Ghana
Bird flu has come to Ghana.
The “dangerous disease” was first discovered in the coastal town of Tema in early May,…
Information shared by a director of a public company with friends and family is closely monitored in Canada.
After three years of trying to find a job at Whitehorse Hospital and receiving “nothing but a run-around,” 30-year-old nurse Janet…
Grievances filed with the union representing nurses at Whitehorse General Hospital have gone up “significantly” over the past year.
Electricity bill changes arrive in bundles.
When it announced a new $12-million electricity deal between the territory and Sherwood Copper this…
The Yukon Energy Corporation and Sherwood Copper have a deal.
But it’s a far different agreement than the one scrutinized by energy critics…
There’s a critical nursing shortage in the Yukon.
But the biggest problem is sorting out the source of the shortage.
All 248 passengers aboard the paddlewheel cruise ship Empress of the North have been evacuated after it ran aground early Monday morning about 80…
Call it fortunate timing or sloppy damage control, but a dozen beds suddenly became available for long-term care patients this week when it was…
It has been an odd week when it comes to Yukon Energy Corporation deals with mining companies.
Officially, the $24-million electricity deal between…
Environment Minister Dennis Fentie is picking and choosing the environmental laws he follows and breaks, says Liberal MLA Darius Elias.
The $24-million power deal between Sherwood Copper and Yukon Energy Corporation may be critically wounded, but it isn’t dead.
