El Niño has hit Africa particularly hard this year. The unpredictable weather cycle has been more intense than past iterations, and is being blamed for everything,...
Makerere University researcher Dr. Misaki Wayengera’s story attracted interest when it emerged that the Ugandan government had not supported his ground-breaking invention, an Ebola rapid detector...
For a government which stresses that FOCAC – the Forum for China-Africa Cooperation – is not about demanding handouts from China, South Africa has a remarkably...
African countries have the most visa requirements in the world. Only 11 of the 54 countries on the continent offer 100% liberal access to all African...
The theme of the 2015 Lagos Photo Festival is ‘Designing Futures’ and photographers at the festival are stepping up to the challenge.