Africa’s youth face high informal employment; decent jobs seen as vital for stability Key sectors with job potential include agriculture, construction, health, and digital economy Skills mismatch, ...

In Mt Kenya, Mutito Water Self-Help Group was awarded $1.5m in compensation for years of corrupt billing. Now 30,000 people are without water following alleged vandalism by WRA officials and police.

As President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package this week to help U.S. farmers hurt by tariffs, he placed ...

As South Africa approaches the festive season, the looming foot-and-mouth disease crisis threatens to disrupt the nation's ...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Delia Velculescu visited South Africa on December 1-8 to hold meetings with the economic authorities and other counterparts from the public and private ...

When a Ghanaian chef and chocolate maker left her homeland at the age of five, she carried with her the memories of her ...

South Africa faces serious water, energy and food problems. Drought, overuse and ageing infrastructure strain water supplies. Coal-fired electricity is not sustainable in the long term and causes high ...

Parts of Africa have experienced severe droughts over the past decade, leading to shortages of a staple food crop.

Africa’s drylands are often imagined as vast, empty spaces. Romantic wilderness on the one hand. Zones of hunger, conflict ...

South Africa plans to vaccinate its entire herd of more than 7 million cattle in an effort to contain foot-and-mouth disease ...

The trajectory of Tanzania under Nyerere stands as a decisive refutation of the petty-bourgeois illusion that national independence, state ownership, or Pan-African sentiment could substitute for ...

Dagoretti North MP Beatrice Elachi. Inset: Her son Elvis Murakana, who died in March 2025. When Dagoretti North MP Beatrice Elachi received the devastating news that her son, Elvis Murakana, had died, ...