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"Today there is a supply of food in Angola, one cannot say that today there is [serious] hunger in Angola, it is a question of some malnutrition," remarked Angola's president.

4 April 2019

Mauritanian bloggers face defamation charges for reporting on corruption

Written by Afef Abrougui · Mauritania

The public prosecution accuses the two bloggers of spreading what it deemed were "false" reports of corruption allegations against the Mauritanian President.

Pope Francis to visit Mozambique in September, during election campaigning

Written by Dércio Tsandzana · Mozambique

Mozambique will hold elections in October and is still recovering from a cyclone which virtually destroyed Beira, the second largest city.

Ugandan police shoot and kill man mistaken for a political assassin

Written by James Propa · Uganda

The story of Ronald Ssebulime is bigger than meets the eyes with different accounts of who shot the "suspected assassin" and how he was killed. Will justice prevail?

28 March 2019

Tanzania's opposition ‘heavyweights’ are bouncing back to the ruling party

Written by Samuel Kabulo · Tanzania

In recent years, defectors from the leading opposition party, CHADEMA, include four members of parliament, 75 councilors and several village chairmen, who have all joined CCM, the ruling party.

25 March 2019

Burundi: Scribble on the president's picture — go to jail

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike · Burundi

"If I did this in Nkurunziza’s Burundi, I could be jailed."

24 March 2019

Cote d'Ivoire's chocolate waste spurs second industry in cocoa butter

Written by Jeslyn Lemke · Cote d'Ivoire

An Ivorian woman makes cocoa butter to sell to soap makers, using chocolate scraps from Cote d'Ivoire's booming cocoa bean industry, the largest in the world.

20 March 2019

Tropical Cyclone Idai: Animal rescues overlooked in this climate disaster

Written by Prisca Daka · Malawi

The cyclone's devastation did not discriminate. Animal activists encourage citizens to remember not to leave animals behind during rescue operations and remember to look for injured, distressed animals.

18 March 2019

Cyclone leaves trail of devastation in Zimbabwe and throughout Southern Africa

Written by Kudzai Chimhangwa · Malawi

"Sadly, lives have been lost and properties destroyed."

16 March 2019

Hundreds gather in Nigeria to mourn professor Pius Adesanmi: ‘A juggernaut of African thought’

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike · Ethiopia

"A thousand years from now, I am hoping that fragments of my writing survive: not all accepted to live as slaves of the most irresponsible rulers of their era."

13 March 2019

Sudan's youth activists want you to pay attention to deforestation in Darfur

Written by Temo Dias · Sudan

Sudan’s complex political situation and rapidly degrading climate have intensified the daily struggle for Sudanese people.

What do we know about Mozambique's next general elections?

Written by Dércio Tsandzana · Mozambique

In October 2019, Mozambique will elect provincial governors for the first time in its history. Previously, they were nominated by the president.

12 March 2019

Nigerians grieve the death of Pius Adesanmi, postcolonial scholar and public intellectual

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike · Ethiopia

"A towering intellectual with a mind that cut through issues like a scalpel who still remained curious about the issues of a younger would-be thinker ..."

8 March 2019

One year without internet in Chad: Citizens have been offline since March 2018

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · Chad

It appears that the government is attempting to muzzle citizens' freedom of expression and to prevent the free circulation of information.

6 March 2019

The French Yellow Vests movement seen through global lenses

Written by Marie Bohner · Canada

As we witness the rise of the Yellow Vests, France revisits its bloodthirsty history.

Burundian troop withdrawal from Somalia leads to another diplomatic standoff

Written by Liam Anderson · Burundi

Amidst Burundi's ongoing political and economic crisis, funding from international peacekeeping missions is a significant source of foreign currency. Now, AMISOM has asked Burundi to reduce their troops from Somalia.

3 March 2019

One month after Ghanaian investigative journalist's murder, activists seek answers

Written by Rosemary Ajayi · Ghana

Divela told the Committee to Protect Journalists via WhatsApp that some "powerful figures in Ghana sought to harm him" after an image of him was published on TV.

28 February 2019

The repatriation of African artifacts to countries of origin is tricky business

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · Western Europe

Many of Africa's "stolen artifacts from colonial times were generally given or donated to French public collections. Thus, these artworks ... have become a property of the French state."