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
Less aid and more trade will be the buzz words
The IMF and World Bank should use the crisis to divert cash to Global South countries to ease the effects of climate change
Even when only one result is possible, elections can tell us a lot about what’s really going on
Abdallae Ahmed Mumin recalls being shot at and threatened in the line of duty. He escaped with his life, but not all his peers were so lucky.
Of course Western countries should share the vaccine. But why do we still have to rely on their largesse?
Hundreds of opposition supporters have disappeared in the last few months, allegedly detained or abducted by Uganda’s security forces
Sitting presidents shouldn’t be given a window to legally hijack their countries
The African Continental Free Trade Area going live heralds exciting times for tech innovation in payments, e-commerce and trade across Africa
The pandemic has forced a digital migration in education. We must capitalise on that opportunity
Kembo Mohadi resigned this week after allegedly conducting not one but two extramarital affairs while in office
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention only launched in 2017, but between Ebola, measles and the Covid-19 pandemic, it has had its work cut out for it. The agency’s director Dr John Nkengasong speaks to The Continent about the vaccine rollout and the turn of the tide in Tanzania