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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa accused in corruption row
Posted on Friday July 19, 2019

President Cyril Ramaphosa accused by watchdog of misleading parliament and potential money laundering.

Africa Cup of Nations: Algeria beat Senegal to win final
Posted on Friday July 19, 2019

Algeria win the Africa Cup of Nations for the second time as a freak early goal secures a 1-0 win against Senegal in Cairo.

Eritrea Orthodox Church ex-leader expelled for 'heresy'
Posted on Friday July 19, 2019

Eritrea Orthodox bishops say the name of former patriarch Antonios "should never be mentioned".

South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma reverses course on corruption inquiry
Posted on Friday July 19, 2019

South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma agrees to give further testimony, withdrawing an earlier threat to pull out.

The African Cup of Nations: 'Fairy-tale' team, cursed jerseys and super fans
Posted on Thursday July 18, 2019

As Algeria and Senegal face each other in the final, we look at some of the tournament's high and low points.

Sudan's military and opposition power-sharing deal explained
Posted on Thursday July 18, 2019

After months of talks, Sudan's military and opposition have finally agreed to a power-sharing deal.

Beyoncé's Lion King album is more about Beyoncé than The Lion King
Posted on Friday July 19, 2019

The star champions African musicians and rhythms on her 14-track companion piece to the Disney film.

ICC suspend Zimbabwe Cricket for political interference
Posted on Thursday July 18, 2019

The International Cricket Council (ICC) suspends Zimbabwe for failing to ensure there is no government interference in its running of the game.

Ebola: Your questions answered
Posted on Thursday July 18, 2019

BBC health and science correspondent James Gallagher answers your questions on the disease.

South Africa: Inside the football-mad township 'too dangerous' for scouts to visit
Posted on Wednesday July 17, 2019

In one of South Africa's biggest townships, football is an obsession. But its crime rate means talented players go unseen by scouts, who deem it too dangerous to visit.

State capture: Zuma, the Guptas, and the sale of South Africa
Posted on Sunday July 14, 2019

South Africa's ex-president is giving evidence at a commission investigating "state capture", but what is it?

The inspiring Somali woman whose murder touched so many
Posted on Saturday July 13, 2019

Hodan Nalayeh launched a TV station in Canada and had recently moved to live and work in Somalia.

Sudan’s livestream massacre
Posted on Friday July 12, 2019

The story of the deadly violence in Khartoum on 3 June, told through those who filmed it.

Sudan: Is it being exploited by foreign powers?
Posted on Tuesday July 09, 2019

Sudan's opposition has accused its military leaders of allowing foreign powers to exploit the country.

Will Facebook's digital money Libra be good for Africa?
Posted on Saturday July 06, 2019

The crypto-currency Libra could have profound implications for a continent and its remittances.

West Africa's eco: What difference would a single currency make?
Posted on Saturday July 06, 2019

Experts are divided on the impact of the new currency will have in the 15 regional countries.

Sudan tomb diver reveals pharaoh's secrets
Posted on Thursday July 04, 2019

Archaeologists dive down to underwater tombs to access them for the first time in 100 years.

Afcon final: Visiting Sadio Mane's hometown
Posted on Friday May 31, 2019

BBC Africa's Babacar Diarra visits Sadio Mane's hometown in Senegal.

Afcon 2019: Algeria's Riyad Mahrez feels love of his home town
Posted on Friday July 19, 2019

Algeria's attempt to win the Afcon 2019 final will be led by Manchester City star Riyad Mahrez.

The Kenyan centre saving endangered chimpanzees
Posted on Tuesday July 16, 2019

Timothy Mwangi has cared for chimpanzees for nearly two decades at this rescue centre in Kenya.

Uber drivers in Nairobi explain why they are on strike
Posted on Tuesday July 16, 2019

Uber drivers are striking in Kenya have gone on strike over poor working conditions.

Bill Kasanda: 'Losing my leg didn't stop me biking'
Posted on Tuesday July 16, 2019

Billy Kasanda refuses to allow an accident, in which he lost a leg, to stop him biking.

The Gambia's revolution: What has changed?
Posted on Sunday July 14, 2019

There are concerns The Gambia's new President, Adama Barrow, may try and cling to power.

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Where are the world's most important countries?
Posted on Thursday May 24, 2018

If we take our information about the world from the news, we are likely to have a distorted understanding of the state of the world. This is because stories are not normally covered in proportion to their importance or scale. One dramatic death may receive more coverage than 1.2 million child deaths in India.

We created an interactive map to rank countries, according to some of the criteria by which the "world's most important countries" might be judged. You can see how well they match up with the top aid recipients.

This map aims to highlight some of countries that journalists, politicians, policymakers, international development professionals and campaigners, and the wider public may wish to pay more attention to.

Palestine: A Female Founder Providing Therapy to the Arab World
Posted on Wednesday October 21, 2015

World and Media aims to support journalists to improve media coverage of global development issues. It should not be surprising that we are highly critical of the quantity and nature of media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In common with most war reporting, media convey a distorted image of both Palestinians and Israelis. Acts of violence are highlighted, while normal life is sidelined, as are its voices. Joseph O’Connor travelled to the West Bank where he met a number of inspiring female entrepreneurs, among them the co-founder of a start-up providing therapy to the Arab world.

'Making it' as a female entrepreneur in Palestine is no mean feat. In fact, merely existing as any kind of entrepreneur poses particular challenges due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

For instance, there is currently no 3G network available in Palestine. The Government of Israel controls mobile networks there and has still to grant 3G licences to Palestinian operators. Businesses can invest in better connections inside their offices but they’re expensive, certainly for cash-strapped start-ups or SMEs.

There is also the challenge of restrictions on movement. It’s difficult for Palestinians to travel freely to and from the West Bank and Gaza, while receiving visitors can prove complicated too. There’s no airport in Palestine and without Israeli ID, Palestinians have to fly out of Jordan and then undertake an arduous three-hour journey through the Jordanian border to come home, and these are just the lucky ones that can obtain travel visas. Then there’s the various checkpoints scattered across Palestine that make the most basic journey feel like an eternity.

However, the situation in the Fatah-controlled West Bank is very different to that in Hamas-controlled Gaza; the latter is still recovering from its 50-day war with Israel in 2014.

It is to Ramallah in the West Bank, which serves as the de facto administrative capital of Palestine, where I focus my attention. It’s there that I meet a number of female entrepreneurs who seem undeterred by the social, political and cultural barriers that surround them.

Togo: Solar Grandmothers
Posted on Friday May 15, 2015

The lives of four grandmothers from the rural village of Agome Sevah, Togo in West Africa have undergone an amazing transformation. The women travelled 5000 miles to Rajasthan in India where they trained over a six month period in Solar Electronics at the famous Barefoot College. There, they were mentored by like-minded Indian women, some of whom were themselves graduates of the College.

Leaving their families in Togo for such a long period of time was difficult for them but their reward was to become Solar Grandmothers with the prospect of electrifying their village on their return.

On completion of their training at the college, the Solar Grandmothers returned to their villages to install, maintain, and train others in solar electrification. Schools, clinics, places of worship and private homes could now have artificial light, with the potential to improve the education, health and social lives of the villagers.

The women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Africa aim to improve the lives of the rural poor living on less than €1 a day in remote inaccessible villages off the energy grids in the 21 least developed countries in Africa, supplying their communities with clean, low cost household lighting from solar energy.

News24.com | WATCH: This 14-year-old's miniature football stadiums from around the world is incredible
Posted on Friday July 19, 2019

A 14-year-old student from Kinshasa is making a name for himself as a budding architect by building miniature models of football stadiums from all over the world and also from his home country.

News24.com | Morocco court condemns three to death for killing Scandinavian hikers
Posted on Friday July 19, 2019

A Moroccan court on Thursday condemned three Islamic State group supporters to death for the murder of two Scandinavian women beheaded while on a hiking trip in the High Atlas mountains.

News24.com | WATCH | WHO sounds international Ebola alarm as risks intensify
Posted on Thursday July 18, 2019

The World Health Organisation has declared Congo's Ebola outbreak an international health emergency, sounding a rarely used global alarm after the virus threatened to spread to a major city and into neighboring countries. WATCH NOW.

News24.com | SA not co-operating in arrest of genocide suspect - UN court
Posted on Thursday July 18, 2019

The chief prosecutor of a UN tribunal accused South Africa of failing to co-operate in the arrest of a fugitive sought over his role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.

Traveller24.com | #AfriTravel: Qatar Airways becomes the first Middle Eastern airline to fly to Gaborone
Posted on Thursday July 18, 2019

The airline will start flying to Botswana's capital from 27 October 2019 through Johannesburg.

News24.com | DRC Ebola outbreak an 'emergency of international concern': WHO
Posted on Wednesday July 17, 2019

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a "public health emergency of international concern," a rare designation only used for the gravest epidemics.

News24.com | Tanzanian press champion hopes prize 'lifts veil' on abuses
Posted on Wednesday July 17, 2019

A Tanzanian journalist awarded a prestigious prize for press freedom said he hoped the recognition will "lift the corner of the veil" on the plight of reporters in his homeland.

News24.com | Sudan: 'Political declaration' after 7 months of crisis
Posted on Wednesday July 17, 2019

The inking of a power-sharing deal between Sudan's protesters and ruling generals Wednesday comes after seven months of major upheaval, including the ouster of long-time president Omar al-Bashir.

News24.com | 13 killed in Nigeria building collapse
Posted on Tuesday July 16, 2019

Thirteen people in central Nigeria died after a three-storey residential building collapsed after torrential rain, emergency workers say.

News24.com | First Ebola patient has died in DR Congo city - governor
Posted on Tuesday July 16, 2019

The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma has died, the governor of North Kivu province says.

News24.com | Mozambique communities try to rebuild lives after cyclones
Posted on Tuesday July 16, 2019

People in Mozambique are still struggling to rebuild their lives four months after two major cyclones.

News24.com | Pastor confirmed with Ebola as disease spreads in Democratic Republic of Congo
Posted on Monday July 15, 2019

The first case of Ebola has been confirmed in Goma, the biggest city to have been affected by the disease since its outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last August, the health ministry has said.

News24.com | Sudan's paramilitary forces 'shoot at protesters, kill a man'
Posted on Sunday July 14, 2019

Witnesses say incident happened in El-Souk after residents rallied to demand paramilitary force to leave their town.

News24.com | 'What protests?': Sudan's desert nomads untouched by Bashir's downfall
Posted on Sunday July 14, 2019

Not far from Sudan's capital Khartoum, the epicentre of an uprising that toppled autocratic ruler Omar al-Bashir, dozens of camel traders are oblivious to the country's biggest political upheaval in decades.

News24.com | How to roast a chicken: Climate change and farming in Nigeria
Posted on Sunday July 14, 2019

Extreme heat is worsening economic inequality among African farmers - and raising the spectre of future food shortages.

News24.com | Eritrean cleared of being trafficking kingpin in mistaken identity case
Posted on Sunday July 14, 2019

An Italian court ruled Friday that an Eritrean accused of being a human trafficking kingpin known as "the General" was telling the truth when he claimed it was a case of mistaken identity.

News24.com | Sudanese protesters demand justice for army crackdown victims
Posted on Saturday July 13, 2019

Thousands of Sudanese protesters have poured onto the streets of Khartoum and other cities to mark the 40th day since the deadly dispersal of a sit-in outside the army headquarters that killed more than 100 people.

News24.com | WATCH: Car bomb and all-night hotel siege kill 26 in Somalia's Kismayo
Posted on Sunday July 14, 2019

Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians were among 26 people killed when Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in the Somali port city of Kismayo, officials say.

News24.com | Aid pledges to cyclone-ravaged Mozambique inadequate - UN chief
Posted on Saturday July 13, 2019

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said funds pledged to help Mozambique recover the devastation of two successive cyclones "is far below what is needed".

News24.com | Former Mozambique finance minister's extradition from SA halted
Posted on Saturday July 13, 2019

The extradition of former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang has been halted, after it emerged that Chang enjoys double immunity under Mozambican law.

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