Imagine you are in Yokadouma, a rural community in eastern Cameroon with little electricity and inaccessible roads. You have an old, inexpensive mobile phone with which you can only make and receive calls.

After the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed and ultimately destroyed the News of the World newspaper in the UK, attention has been turning to how sensationalist journalism is managed around the world.

Shauna and her colleague Simon, who is quite the ladies' man, are on a mission to dissect an energy sector initiative that binds the national electricity utility and a private company together in a murky concession agreement. Some remote areas of the KwaZulu-Natal province are laden with inadequate electricity services and underdevelopment in a backdrop of partnerships among "parties that have no communication whatsoever", and Shauna wants to get to the bottom of it. Following a number of spats, one of which makes Shauna feel like a "prize idiot", the two colleagues evoke the philosophies of Ubuntu.

The ousting of the dazzling Bo Xilai, the head of the megalopolis of Chongqing, has seen the emergence of fierce battles between neomaoists, "Shanghaians" and...

The democratic development of West African States has been bipolar this past week.

March 28, Tunisian scientist Mounira Hmani Aifa will be awarded by the Unesco and the L'Oréal Foundation for genetic blindness.