Category: Africa

An international conference aimed at the empowerment of women has caused a stir in the host country’s capital Monrovia after slums were bulldozed to give delegates world-class views from their hotels. Hundreds of men, women and children who live on beaches in the war-torn West-African country have been told to move out of their homes […]

Anti-corruption campaigns are increasingly geared towards silencing leaders’ political opponents, say accused… Cases in countries such as South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Nigeria show that in the course of removing the rot from the public service and instilling fiscal discipline instilling fiscal discipline, African leaders will apply all sorts of deception – be it politics […]

Only animals had not written off Lake Ngami, an inland lake in north-west Botswana famous for the birds that breed on its shores… For residents of Sehithwa, 80 kilometres south of Botswana’s resort town of Maun, the fate of the once popular bird sanctuary had been written and sealed. The area that was once Lake […]

Malawi’s president warns foreign tobacco merchants he will expell them if they continue to offer low prices… Mutharika’s warning comes at a time when tobacco sales have just commenced at the auction floors where farmers sell their tobacco to buyers who dictate the prices. He branded the buyers as colonialists “who are taking advantage of […]

Malawian Vice President Cassim Chilumpha has won the sympathy of the clergy who are demanding his unconditional release from house arrest… The clergy, who belong to the Pastors Voice Association, are asking the government to free Chilumpha, who was arrested on April 28 last year on treason charges, because “detaining the Vice President of a […]

The queen of pop returns to Malawi to meet her adopted son’s father and check aid work she is involved in… Her first trip to the impoverished southern African country of Malawi last year was not without controversy. US pop star Madonna adopted David Banda, now 18 months old and was accused by the civil […]

Africa’s largest country has been at war with itself for nearly a half century, but as peace returns so are its people… Conflict in Sudan began just before independence in 1956 and, after a pause from 1972 to 1983, exploded with a fresh fury. It has been Africa’s longest, costliest, and deadliest war with parties […]