Kenya’s President, William Ruto, said recently that he will lift a ban on logging in the country.

The stated aim of the global charity International Justice Mission is commendable: rescue millions of people from being trafficked into forced labour by the year 2030.

Riots spread from Paris to many French cities after the killing by police of Nahel M, a 17-year-old boy of Algerian origin.

“I just wish the governments of South Africa and Lesotho would come together and help us to get the bodies”

Should there be a ban on the importation of the body parts of wild animals, like lion pelts, elephant tusks or zebra hides into Britain?

That’s a question currently being considered by British lawmakers.

Cases like Cecil the Lion - killed by an American dentist in Zimbabwe - have raised concern about the practice worldwide – and the image of white foreigners killing African wildlife disturbs many people.

But the leaders of some African countries argue that trophy hunting can be GOOD for the environment.

Botswana’s environment minister Philda Nani Kereng has been leading a delegation of officials from southern Africa to plead with lawmakers not to pass the law, or at least to make some amendments to it.

Botswana has a population of 150,000 elephants, the largest anywhere in the world.

So what are the arguments surrounding trophy hunting?

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Across Africa there are moves afoot to toughen laws against the gay community.

In May, President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill – giving Uganda some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ laws in the world.

But now Ghana’s and Kenya’s parliaments are due to soon start debating even tougher legislation.

Just after the Ugandan bill was passed, MPs from a number of countries across the continent attended a networking conference in Entebbe sponsored by the socially conservative US Mormon pressure group ‘Family Watch International’.

One of them was the MP behind the Kenyan bill, George Peter Kaluma.

The BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga spoke to him.

“Women are not used to being open to being 100% themselves and doing what they love…. We’re still building an industry”

What are the main challenges facing female Hip Hop artists on the continent? Today Africa Daily heads to Senegal to speak to two artists – Aida Sock and Sister LB (Selbe Diouf) – about the challenges they’ve faced and their hopes for the future of the industry. They also talk about their willingness to take risks in speaking truth to power.

For young people lucky enough to go into higher education, long hours of study are put in with the anticipation of a better job and life prospects.

The Uganda Wildlife Court began its work in 2017 because of concerns that crimes against wild animals weren’t getting the attention they deserved in the country’s criminal courts.

The term black tax is used to describe the financial burden borne by many black people who have achieved a noticeable level of success and find themselves providing support to less secure family members.