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Benita Van Eyssen works from Germany. foreign correspondent/editor/native of nowhere Benita Van Eyssen has over 53 followers on Twitter.
Gambians get behind a movement to Barrow to his word
The constitution puts him on fairly firm ground but citizens of post-dictatorship Gambia are determined to hold their leader to account
What’s behind the Equatoguinean-Cameroonian border wall plan?
It is not unusual for Equatorial Guinea to seal its border with Cameroon. But a plan to build a solid border wall has Cameroonians fuming
Anger over dictatorship, not bread, fuelling Sudan uprising
The protest wave sweeping across Sudan was never about bread; it’s a nation fed up with a decades-old military dictatorship
Double debt risk for African countries that turn to China
Kenya owes more to China than it does to Western lenders, the traditional source of loans to the continent
SA arms deal back in the spotlight
The controversy surrounding South Africa’s biggest arms-acquisition deal has resurfaced. That prosecutors in Düsseldorf at the weekend confirmed a probe into allegations that a…
R900 a month, 12 hours a day
Phil Naledi has changed the lives of residents along a leafy street in the north-eastern Johannesburg suburb of Sydenham. He earns R900 a month for guarding the houses in the…
Amandla!: Tsotsi wins Oscar
Hollywood seems to have embraced the South African reality of crime, grime and poverty after Tsotsi won the best foreign-language film Oscar on Sunday. The story of a violent…
Durban gets ready for A1 grand prix
As the final preparations for the first of three A1 grand prix races were under way in South Africa on Tuesday, managers of host city Durban announced they have their sights set…
Rains wreak havoc in Southern Africa
Heavy rains in parts of Southern Africa have left more than 1Â 000 people homeless, caused structural damage, and played a part in spreading cholera . In Zambia more than 1Â 000…
Poor response to Malawi’s growing hunger
The twin infants wrestle for their mother’s breasts as the young woman stops to catch her breath. Weak and exhausted she is standing in the shade of a large tree at the United…
Swazis irritated by foreign ridicule
Tens of thousands of unmarried Swazi girls performed a final dance on Monday culminating a week-long celebration of chastity as Swazi authorities moved to defend the…
Swazi girls offer reeds to King Mswati
Tens of thousands of unmarried Swazi girls gathered at the royal residence on Sunday to lay down reeds as part of a week-long celebration of national pride that will culminate in…
Zambia works to shed corrupt image
In an African context, Zambia’s level of corruption is hardly the worst, but it is a problem and politicians, church leaders and ordinary Zambians are starting to speak out…
Zim torture victims pick up the pieces in SA
At first it appears as though the seriously ill Zimbabwean is speaking about someone else’s ordeal at the hands of the notorious Central Intelligence Organisation. Propped up in…
Cape Town college is simply magic
Situated in a large, old, red two-storey Victorian mansion in the Cape Town suburb of Claremont, the world’s only college of magic may lack the flying broomsticks of Harry…