ee Sovereignty, Today we (don’t) celebrate 40 years of independence ...

Unlike Congo, which is immense, boasting minerals, rubber, gold and uranium, Rwanda is resource-poor. “Rwanda was the backyard of the Belgian colonies. It was of no economic interest to Belgium,” says ...

In 1879-1880, as Henry Morton Stanley was secretly mapping the Congo River and procuring trade treaties from local leaders, ...

According to the Jordanian education system, treachery is a “natural Jewish quality,” and the peace agreement was signed “in ...

This year, the Visions du Réel Film Festival's national competition featured three Swiss documentaries set in Africa.

Authorities arrested two Belgian teenagers, a Vietnamese man and a Kenyan national ... where ant keepers maintain colonies in large transparent vessels known as formicariums to observe their ...

Belgian nationals Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijckx ... meaning that the illegal trade can jeopardise colonies critical to Kenya's wildlife ecosystem. KWS said the ants "were destined for the ...

The two cases were separate but all four were tried together. Lornoy was described as an "ant enthusiast" who kept colonies at home in Belgium and was member of a Facebook group called "Ants and Ant ...

The teenagers were found with the ants, which authorities said were destined for European and Asian markets, in an emerging ...

The research from Washington State University and APIX Biosciences in Belgium details successful trials where nutritionally stressed colonies, deployed for commercial crop pollination in ...

Published on April 16 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study from Washington State University and APIX Biosciences NV in Belgium reports that nutritionally stressed bee colonies ...

Two Belgian teenagers – David Lornoy and Seppe ... valued the seizures of queens taken from giant African harvester ant colonies at about 1.2 million Kenyan shillings (S$12,121).