POLITICS-SUDAN
By Mar 20
African Leaders Call for Peaceful Elections - With less than a month to the historic multi-party poll in Africa’s largest country, Sudan, eminent African leaders are calling for a peaceful and calm election process.
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NIGERIA
By Mar 19
Acting President Consolidates Power Amid Unrest - This week, acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet, further securing his tenuous hold on the country's top post amidst rising unrest in the Niger Delta and flaring religious tensions in the central region of the country.
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ZAMBIA
By Mar 19
School Policy for Teen Mothers a Partial Success - Naomi Mulenga is determined to beat the odds by finishing her school education and becoming a nurse – despite being a teenage mother.
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KENYA
By Mar 19
Trying to Rebuild Communities After Floods - After torrential rains and floods claimed lives in Kenya’s North Rift region, hundreds of displaced people are now in dire need of relief aid.
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KENYA
By Mar 19
State Insists Counterfeit Law’s No Threat to Right to Life - Kenya’s Constitutional Court heard on Mar. 18 from counsel representing the government that the Anti-Counterfeit Act of 2008 does not threaten the importation or manufacturing of cheap generic medicines and therefore does not deny Kenyans their constitutional right to life.
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EDUCATION-MALAWI
By Mar 18
Local Language Dictionary Released - The thickest book on secondary school teacher Hellen Ndalama’s desk is her indigenous language dictionary. It is also her most-used book.
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ECONOMY-SENEGAL
By Mar 18
'Only The Rich Get Loans' - Despite the financial sector boom in Senegal, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), which represent over 90 percent of the industrial fabric of the country, struggle to access funding for their development, their representatives claim.
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WEST AFRICA
By Mar 18
Stopping the Polio Virus - The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners hope to eliminate the circulation of the polio virus in West Africa as soon as June by launching the first round of national synchronised immunisation days against the debilitating disease.
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POLITICS-RWANDA
By Mar 17
Woman Vies for Top Job - On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. The situation is however different in Rwanda.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
By Mar 17
Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls - Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters worse, the organisation is split over the future of its tariff pool that largely bankrolls the national budgets of its poorer members.
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