
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist and cultural critic Andrew Chatora has entered a new chapter in his literary life, not by stepping...




Kenya’s election shows that understanding how voters are influenced online is central to freer, fairer elections.














Paduol Ater’s inspirational story is one of determination, hard-work and hope. Ater fled Sudan to escape a massacre which claimed his whole family, arriving in Australia...

The traditional underground homes are sometimes described as "troglodyte" structures. They are found in Matmata, Tunisia.

HRW report documents the testimonies of women and girls as young as 12, abducted and held as sex-slaves in ‘rape camps’

Today the world commemorates the birth of a global icon. 146 years ago Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, or “Great Soul” was born....

Wangari Maathai may have passed on four years ago last Friday, September 25th, but it’s highly unlikely the spirit and the common sense that the founder...

The mega airport will surpass the new $475-million modern light-rail system and the project will only be second to the ongoing Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project

Why is it that people fake orgasms when it really does not help anyone? Social conventions have made it so that even when we do not...

Elijah Lemayan received a standing ovation at a United Nations meeting after sharing a moving story of living with HIV/AIDS

Noah has been congratulated for a ‘solid’ debut

There’s a palpable sense of crisis in Angola, say observers of the country. That’s largely because of the plummeting price of oil, the mainstay of the...