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The state-run Grain Marketing Board, designed to promote food security, is being blamed for exacerbating Zimbabwe’s chronic food shortages.
Unicef estimates that 13% of Zimbabwean children are engaged in child labour, a problem spurred by the demise of the country’s manufacturing sector.
African diaspora savings, at US$53-billion every year, exceed annual remittances to the continent and could aid development, if tapped into.
Next week will mark a year since the Marikana massacre – a major turning point for South Africa. The M&G will bring you a special project on the day.
Thai teachers have been under attack from Muslim insurgents who see them as representatives of the state.
Government says there has been a poor response to the male circumcision programme which aims to circumcise about 3-million men by the end of 2015.
The financial crisis in Europe has brought an influx of Portuguese migrants to Mozambique, creating employment opportunities in the process.
Health centres in Uganda are struggling to help those affected by nodding syndrome, a condition that causes seizures and stunting in children.
About a third of Côte d’Ivoire’s cashew nuts are smuggled abroad every year, robbing the country of a valuable income stream.
Nineteen NGOs have written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon to express concern over a new "robust" brigade to be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Thousands of kilograms of food aid intended for Swaziland’s food insecure were recently found rotting in the government’s main storage warehouses.
A multimillion-dollar drive to circumcise the majority of Swazi males between the age of 15 and 49 within a year has failed to reach its target.
In the 1980s Iraqi women enjoyed more basic rights than other women in the region, but years of dictatorship has led to deterioration in their status.
Sporadic armed clashes, looting of orphanages, recruitment into armies, and widespread school closures have made life perilous for CAR’s children.
Uganda’s government and the UN Refugee Agency have launched a pilot mobile court system to improve access to justice for victims of crimes.
The M23 rebellion, the latest of a string of armed insurgencies in the DRC’s North Kivu province, has been active for one year now.
SA’s gold mines are estimated to have the highest number of new TB cases in the world, making the disease a leading export to neighbouring countries.
A major maize shortage has sent the price of maize meal spiralling in Zimbabwe, prompting traders to lobby government to consider importing GM maize.
New data from the World Bank has revealed African migrants pay more to send money home to their families than any other migrant group in the world.
Concerns have been raised that the International Criminal Court probe into Mali war crimes is placing serious strain on an over-stretched body.
