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After a decade of strong growth, the expected crossover of smartphones finally overtaking feature phone usage in Africa did not happen...

It has been announced that the 2022 Commonwealth Games will no longer take place in South Africa due to severe financial constraints. The...

South Africa finance minister Pravin Gordhan has announced a new top tax bracket of 45% in his 2017 budget. The new tax bracket applies...

The analysis, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows nearly two thirds of cases (61%) were caused by 3% of...

Whenever Kampire Bahana, a Ugandan writer and DJ, walks into a salon the experience is the same. “They ask me what I’ve been doing with...

Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, a former prime minister and U.S. dual citizen, won Somalia's long-postponed presidential election Wednesday....

Telecom operators across the African continent continue to face significant risks when it comes to revenue growth. Despite the increase...

Since taking office in May last year, Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, has made fighting corruption in government a central goal of...

Internal displacement across Africa is almost always attributed to civil strife or full-blown wars. But a new report from the Internal...

Akufo-Addo won convincingly this time with 53.85% of the vote, according to Ghana’s Electoral Commission. The incumbent, Mahama won just...

Johannesburg Just as Freedom Park, south of Johannesburg, completed its transition from a shanty town to a lower middle class...

Kigali, Rwanda Every day the workers at C&H Garment Factory are required to learn a few words of Chinese. Today’s lesson, written on a...

Spotting evolution can be trickier than you might think. Take African elephants. Usually they boast massively overgrown (and...

Since it began operations in 2002, the International Criminal Court has secured just four convictions, fueling the perception that it has...

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to one of the largest, fastest growing youth populations in the world. But this “youth bulge” could hurt...

Gender inequality starts young: household-chores young. Around the world, girls between the ages of five and 14 spend 550 million hours...

In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a list of the top emerging diseases that are “likely to cause severe outbreaks in...

I had spent close to a week in Bangladesh presenting and participating in the Dhaka Literature Festival in November 2015. After the trip...

As state leaders and delegates descend on New Delhi this week for the third India-Africa Summit, Indian officials are working hard to...

Nominations are now open for the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work, which recognise outstanding young...