Three of Africa’s most dangerous militant groups are co-ordinating their operations and represent a deepening threat to security, the US has warned.
Uganda has announced a ban on 38 non-governmental organisations it accuses of undermining the national culture by promoting homosexuality.
A new website is aiming to give a voice to Zimbabwean women, and is fast gaining attention since its launch three months ago.
Malawi is returning to its 1964 independence flag, replaced in 2010 in an "attack on the country’s nationhood" by late leader Bingu wa Mutharika.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, accused of ethnic cleansing and bankrupting his country, has been asked to by the UN to champion tourism.
South Africa’s governing party, born in a township church in 1912, found it could liberate in poetry but had to govern in prose.