Africa

A platform of hope: Creating compelling scenarios for the future of Africa

Rebecca Pitt
23 Jun

Doctors Without Borders runs mental health intervention in Zimbabwe camp

Tamsin Metelerkamp
22 Jun

Progress and setbacks on LGBT rights in Africa — an overview of the last year

Graeme Reid
22 Jun

Activists and researchers dismayed by IEA endorsement of tapping Africa’s natural gas

Ethan van Diemen
21 Jun

Ramaphosa calls Putin to discuss food and fertiliser supplies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine scrambled global markets

Peter Fabricius
16 Jun

The Invention of Green Colonialism — the roots of Africa’s wildlife NGOs come under withering scrutiny

Ed Stoddard
14 Jun

Wamkele Mene: South Africa’s jitters about free trade rules are ‘not supported by evidence at all’

Carien du Plessis
06 Jun

Glencore to pay $1.1bn fine after pleading guilty to graft and market manipulation

Ed Stoddard
25 May

The return of Africom – A recalibration of Biden’s US-Africa policy?

Odilile Ayodele and Mikatekiso Kubayi
22 May

Covid-19 corruption deepens wounds of pandemic across Africa 

Enoch Randy Aikins for ISS Today
19 May

Africa’s solutions to conflict failing in face of diverging interests and ideologies 

Paul-Simon Handy and Felicite Djilo
11 May

Sanlam beds down with Germany’s mega-insurer Allianz in a deal that makes sense — and yet doesn’t

Tim Cohen
08 May

What’s at stake in Ukraine? A dispatch from a country fighting for its very existence

Greg Mills
06 May

Africa has ambitious goals for 2063: plans for outer space hold the key to success

Etim Offiong
01 May

How to help smallholder farmers fight climate change

Sibusiso Nxumalo
28 Apr

Africa faces huge food-supply obstacles – and time is running out

Simon Roberts, Reena das Nair and Antonio Andreoni
24 Apr

Nigeria untangles its snarled highways in bid to expand and rehabilitate its road network

Carien du Plessis
20 Apr

Vaccine manufacturing in Africa needs a ‘business case’

Tamsin Metelerkamp
19 Apr

From Russia with a middle finger: Stagflation stalks Africa as Ukraine conflict fans inflation 

Ed Stoddard
14 Apr

The Tyranny of Growth examines the sacrosanct concept of GDP as a growth measure in Africa

Ed Stoddard
12 Apr

Secrets in the genes – how ancient DNA sheds light on social changes in Africa 50,000 years ago

Elizabeth Sawchuk, Jessica Thompson and Mary Prendergast
06 Apr