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Beatrice Debut works from Johannesburg, South Africa. AFP journalist for Southern Africa. Formely in Nairobi, London and Paris. Views my own, RTs not an endorsement Beatrice Debut has over 1495 followers on Twitter.
The new tax, the first of its type in Africa, was cautiously introduced last month in the first of several gradual step
Against the backdrop of an already tense situation due to the presidential poll, a new fisheries deal with Chinese investors has provoked an outcry
Many voters see accessing water, electricity and jobs as their priorities
With the emergence of armed gangs operating in illegal mining, rival miners kidnap and force each other to work in slave-like conditions underground.
Thousands of students have marched through London against cuts to university funding, facing off against police armed with rubber bullets.
Britain and Bill Gates have pledged more than half of the $3.7-billion sought to vaccinate nearly 250-million children against preventable diseases.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Friday it was "increasingly likely" the US would try to extradite him.
The minibus throws itself into reverse on a busy road in Pretoria, after 30 minutes of driving in circles around the city.
Fancy world-class soccer in SA alongside a trip to the Victoria Falls or a Namib desert safari? This is possible, according to Fifa organisers.
In the remote west Kenyan village of Koiluget, a deadly attack by a rival ethnic group just over a week ago left behind more than just twisted sheet metal and charred walls —…
Beating the air with her homemade net, Aicha Ali chases a swirling black and turquoise butterfly. Far from indulging in a frivolous pastime, this Kenyan mother is earning crucial…
Gaudencia, a Kenyan woman in her fifties, works barefoot preparing her fallow field for sowing corn. Until two years ago, she had no idea leaving the land untilled some seasons…
A day after the United Nations endorsed an African Union peacekeeping force for Somalia, and almost two months after the ouster of the Islamists from Mogadishu, analysts on…
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Supreme Court will announce its ruling in failed presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba’s challenge to the election results on Monday,…
Bwinja Bwinja points his digital camera at a ripped election poster of presidential hopeful Jean-Pierre Bemba and snaps away. The 12-year-old boy’s camera has given him a special…
It is fast-growing, drought-resistant and sprawls over hectares of land in Kenya’s arid regions, providing fuel and furniture material for thousands of impoverished herders and…
His rebel group is one of world’s most notorious, reviled for an incongruous mix of religion and brutality, but Joseph Kony, the chief of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army, is a…
One-by-one the words, bizarre and horrific, spout from the mouth of Alice as she recounts the terror and abuse she suffered as a child slave for Uganda’s notorious Lord’s…
After three bitterly contested polls in the politically volatile Tanzania’s offshore state of Zanzibar, religious and political leaders fear that the island’s Muslim population…
Zanzibar opposition leader Seif Sharif Hamad on Tuesday claimed victory in the hotly contested race for the presidency of the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago amid new…
