The Hollywood star speaks about misspelling her name, Zimbabwe’s political crisis and her love of sadza
Africa’s last absolute monarchy is experiencing its worst unrest in years
Africa is nowhere near achieving the promises of the African Charter, which only underscores its importance
For all the excitement generated by the news of an mRNA vaccine hub being established in South Africa, the country is still going to need help making Covid-19 jabs
Telecoms networks are the real drivers of financial inclusion on the continent
The first batch of locally manufactured jabs could be expected in the next nine to 12 months
Governments’ interruption of social media is censorship is a way to control the flow of information online and amounts to censorship
A man who took on cellphone data regulators over out-of-bundle rates is featured in this edition of a series on human rights defenders in the SADC region
The well-being of about 3.2-billion people, 40% of the world’s population, has been harmed
We must act now to secure the world’s oceans as a common good — and prevent catastrophic repercussions, argues Halemariam Desalegn
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that South Africa could count on him to fix the inequalities associated with combating the virus
The country has a national mental health emergency but only a handful of psychiatrists to deal with it
The semifinals tip off on Saturday, with a champion to be crowned on Sunday
African states are starting to withdraw from rights bodies when rulings go against them
Testing and isolating the infected are still the most effective response to the pandemic
Osmond Tshuma’s ‘Colonial Bastard’ typeface shakes the canon of typography in Africa
The United Nations Population Fund is the world’s largest provider of contraception to poor countries. The UK’s cuts to the agency are almost three times more severe than anything imposed previously by the Trump administration
With no cases of Covid-19, a Zimbabwe informal settlement’s residents are more concerned about making ends meet – and their imminent eviction
Franck Biya, a Cameroonian businessman is also the son of President Paul Biya. Does this mean he will be president, too?
Fight the equity divide so that African families have adequate food, social protection and access to technology
The SADC states have failed to deliver on their human rights obligations by not securing vaccines
Although still needed, the relevance and credibility of electoral observers requires assessment
“Family fortunes” in Chad reflect further-reaching dynamics of ruling
First-ever recorded stranding in more than 30 years in Namibia, South Africa and probably the continent
Can Nigeria’s #EndSars protests restructure electoral politics? Or will they simply become a dramatic, but ineffective interlude, to the status quo?
Setting up a continent-wide medicine regulator could be crucial to getting Africa’s people the treatments and Covid vaccines they need. Here’s why more countries need to put their weight behind it
Michela Wrong debunks the myth of Rwanda as a model developmental state and a poster child for Western aid, the theme of her latest book
The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us should want
The damning Muse report, commissioned by the Rwandan government, labels France a ‘collaborator’ of the Hutu regime, but falls short of labelling the country as complicit
In mere months, Moderna transformed an old Polaroid factory in America into a state-of-the-art vaccine-production centre. Why can’t we do the same?
COMMENT: The AU has laid out a clear path for the continent to produce its own vaccines
Restrictions to battle the pandemic offer ideal cover for authoritarian regimes to undermine and clamp down on opposition parties