Scientists bring hope of better crops Frequent warnings about approaching agricultural epidemics must be balanced with the solid advances made in producing hardier and higher-yielding ... varieties of Africa's staple crops. We round up the latest discoveries.
Thuli Makama on conserving Swaziland The winner of the 2010 Goldman Prize for Africa fights to link environmental conservation, human-rights protection and sustainable community ... development in Swaziland.
Uganda: Museveni takes on the three musketeers Opposition leaders are preparing to choose a single candidate for next year's presidential election but the three biggest parties do not trust ... each other completely,a situation that the incumbent is bound to exploit to his advantage.
Last Word by Staff Benda Bilili You can't see what is on the inside says Congolese sensation Staff Benda Bilili. ...
difficult task Ethiopia: Abiy’s pick for bank governor faces spiralling inflation and shrinking reserves
difficult task Ethiopia: Abiy’s pick for bank governor faces spiralling inflation and shrinking reserves
West Africa’s cocaine coast The volume of seizures is going down but drugs are now being produced in laboratories in West Africa. ...
Guinea Bissau: Back to basics With the military increasingly tied up in battling the drugs trade, the civilian government is struggling to enact security-sector reform to ... support the judiciary
LRA building base in Congo’s Bas Uele The Lord's Resistance Army is brutally displacing people from the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, reports Ledio Cakaj from the ... Enough Project.
North Africa, a new consulting El Dorado Deloitte, KPMG, McKinsey: In Casablanca, Tunis and Algiers, auditing and consulting firms are arriving in force. The market in North Africa and ... the Middle East is already worth more than €2bn.
NGOs fight companies over a peanut patent When humanitarian ideals come up against intellectual property restrictions. ...
Long View: Creating bounty for a billion Chinese China has already approved some genetically modified crops, though policy-makers and researchers remain undecided about their safety. ...