In this interview with The Africa Report, John Joseph Otim, advisor on agriculture 
to Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, explains why some parts of the resource-rich East African nation face food insecurity and why he believes genetically modified seeds are not a panacea. Intra-African trade, he says, should be intensified.

The Senegalese technocrat prepares to take over the World Bank's Africa portfolio from Nigeria's Obiageli Ezekwesili in the next few months.

President Jacob Zuma's campaign team is keeping a close watch on Paul Shipokosa Mashatile, the chairman of the African National Congress (ANC) in Gauteng Province, the country's economic hub, and for a good reason. 

If Marieme Faye Sall chose not to read the newspapers before her husband's victory, it was because the pro-Abdoulaye Wade propaganda.

The jostling over the ANC's leadership positions over the past few years has forced a host of new names and faces to emerge.

Partisans and plotters are joining together to oppose President Zuma's bid for a second term as ANC leader and national president. It has the  potential to be a brutal campaign...