Zambia’s August 2026 presidential election stands as a vital geopolitical watershed for Southern Africa. Strikingly contrasted against Zimbabwe’s executive overreach...
Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) came to town last week (from 30 September to 1 October) after a two-year COVID-19...
The theme of the 2015 Lagos Photo Festival is ‘Designing Futures’ and photographers at the festival are stepping up to the challenge.
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has agreed, in principle, to employ its workers directly, and charges were dropped against 23 protesters. But at Wits, students...
Human Rights Watch has released a report documenting the abuse, beatings and involuntary treatment of people with psychosocial disabilities in Somaliland’s private and public health centres
Breaking new ground, 28 year-old Lieutenant Ouma Laouali, becomes Niger’s first female pilot to serve in the country’s armed forces
There has been outrage over plans to racially segregate fans after a shocking video of four black fans being attacked during a Champion League match emerges
With as many as 14 sub-Saharan African states taking to the polls, 2015 has been a critical year on the election calendar. On Sunday Tanzania, a...
The education minister Lazarus Dokora says pupils ‘will be instructed in the languages that have been accepted in our Constitution’
Born in Paris in the 80s, Danielle Eog Makedah discovered music by leafing through her father’s vinyl collection. Descriptions of royalty seem to have followed Danielle...
Amidst the #FeesMustFall protests, a second #MustFall has emerged and has largely fallen under the radar: #ThePriceOfBreadMustFall. On Tuesday, a group of activists occupied the Shoprite...
US Republican Party's presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has once again caused a stir by expressing his beliefs that the world would be a better place if...
