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The commitment of African leaders remains the greatest obstacle to African renaissance and development. Consultation with citizens is also called...














The government of Malawi has passed legislation which outlaws child marriage and lifts the legal age for a girl to be married to 18

In an audacious move that is to revolutionise Tanzania's primary and secondary education, the country's Ministry of Education and Vocational Training has decided to ditch English...

UNAIDS, UNICEF and its partners launched the 'All In' platform in Nairobi on Wednesday, to take action against the adolescent AIDS epidemic

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) organised a rally on Wednesday, protesting the power cuts in Ghana which the opposition party says is hampering the economy

Today the west African nation of The Gambia observes it's 50th year of freedom from British colonial rule. Freedom of the sovereign state should equate to...

Technology is being used to create spaces where women feel marginalised, and threatened based on their gender. From 'cyber stalking' to 'revenge porn', women are almost...
On this day, 25 years ago, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after serving 27 years of his life sentence. Check out his first speech as...

Recently Chimamanda Adichie’s documenting of her struggle with depression was released by the Guardian Network. The article was subsequently removed but not before quite a few...

Rwanda has launched east Africa's first utility-scale solar energy project, effectively boosting the country's total electric grid capacity

A student in Northern Uganda hanged herself over the weekend after failing her national secondary examinations for a fourth time