Ukraine

Meandering through the bustling traffic in Nigeria's main city, Lagos, Oyewumi Azeez Olawale makes his way to a visa appointment. Just a year ago, the Nigerian medical student was scrambling to find safe passage out of Ukraine after the…

Fighting alongside pro-Russia separatists as part of Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine wasn’t mentioned in the brochures of Luhansk University when Jean Claude Sangwa, a 27-year-old student from the Democratic Republic of the…

Imagine leaving your home in search of education, in the hopes of coming back to make life better for your family, but this hope is cut short barely three months into your study. This is the story of a Nigerian student, Desmond Chinaza…

A subsistence farmer in Burundi, who used to be a refugee, is donating 100kg (220lb) of his maize crop to those fleeing violence in Ukraine. “As a former refugee myself, I thought of offering some help. I am a peasant farmer, I don’t…

Despite the United States' warning of the possibility of a war, I wasn’t really bothered about it and I really doubted the fact that there will be a war in 2022. I thought it was some kind of (empty) threat to bring Ukraine into…