Regardless of how the elections are conducted on the new dates announced, losing parties will blame the postponement for their defeat.
Angola’s new President João Lourenço has shown some willingness to engage in more inclusive politics.
More than half of Nigeria’s 51% registered voters are aged between 18-35 years.
Medical and Health Humanities conversations and collaborations about health are growing and gaining momentum in Africa.
Lake Malawi is considered a biodiversity treasure because almost all its species occurs nowhere else on the planet.
It’s too soon for South Africa to start counting its chickens over the recent offshore gas find by global energy giant Total.
Opening up positions of political power to women will lead to effective and better implemented development policies.
Effective communication strategies will be crucial if scientists want to counter the worrying anti-vaccination trend.
Millions of people in Kenya still face poverty. But there's hope.
Data science is going to grow over the coming decades and requires trained graduates who can handle the work.
Kenya needs to tread carefully. It must avoid placing the country’s security ahead of people’s privacy rights.
Many of the crime prevention strategies South African President Cyril Ramaphosa proposed have been tried, with few positive results.
The new Ebola vaccine is yet to be licensed but evidence shows that it protects against the strain of the virus.
There’s no easy way for Eskom to claw its way out of the crisis it’s in.
Mental health care for teen mothers is not part of routine health facilities in Nairobi’s informal settlements.
South Africa’s president has committed to structural reforms in the energy sector.
Corruption has, over the past decade and a half, become one of South Africans’ biggest concerns.
South Africa students are protesting and have brought university campuses to a stand still. This could have been avoided.
Before democracy South Africa’s mining sector prioritised profits over the people and environment. Not much has changed.
The World Bank needs to change as part of rethinking the current world order, and giving rising powers and developing countries a meaningful voice.
Corruption in South Africa became increasingly organised under former President Jacob Zuma.
Countries that regulate political party funding do so to preserve their sovereignty and integrity of domestic politics.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has new aspirations in Africa in pursuit of his country’s assertiveness in the global arena.
One of the most potent promoters of Nigeria’s cultural soft power is arguably Nollywood.
At the turn of the century, the greatest threats were posed by infectious diseases today, the biggest threats are posed by lifestyle diseases.