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Libya crisis: UN warns battle for Tripoli is 'start of a bloody war'
Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2019

The UN envoy says that unless the flow of arms to Libya stops there could be a descent into chaos.

Malawi election: Vote count starts in unpredictable poll
Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2019

Three men are seen as having a chance of winning this unpredictable presidential poll.

'He paid me $0.57 for sex all day'
Posted on Monday May 20, 2019

Two prostitutes who work on the streets of Freetown, Sierra Leone, tell their stories.

Asamoah Gyan quits Ghana national team over captaincy
Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2019

Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan retires from international football after being removed as captain of the national team.

Caster Semenya to run 3,000m in Prefontaine
Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2019

Caster Semenya will race in the 3,000m at the Diamond League Prefontaine Classic on 30 June without having to lower her testosterone levels.

Ahmed Abiy hosts glitzy fundraising dinner for the elite
Posted on Monday May 20, 2019

Ahmed Abiy's event at the Menelik palace was to raise funds for infrastructure in Addis Ababa.

Cosafa Cup: Angola withdrawal weakens tournament further
Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2019

Angola become the second Africa Cup of Nations-bound sides, with Madagascar, to withdraw from southern Africa's Cosafa Cup.

Africa Cup of Nations: South Africa wait on passports for players
Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2019

South Africa coach Stuart Baxter is waiting on passports for two players to join up with his 30-man provisional squad.

Malawi election: Albino killings, the president’s fake death and five more things
Posted on Sunday May 19, 2019

Seven million Malawians are registered for Tuesday's election - here are seven things about the poll.

Africa's top shots: 10-16 May 2019
Posted on Thursday May 16, 2019

A selection of photos from across Africa this week.

Zimbabwe's white farmers: Who will pay compensation?
Posted on Thursday May 16, 2019

The government is giving some compensation - but not for the land the farmers lost two decades ago.

The hidden lives of ‘housegirls’ in Kenya
Posted on Monday May 20, 2019

A charity in Kenya is calling for the introduction of laws to protect domestic workers to ensure their safety.

Lake Malawi: The man saving baby fish from mosquito nets
Posted on Monday May 20, 2019

Force Ngwira is fighting the use of mosquito nets for fishing, which depletes stocks in Lake Malawi.

Nigeria's 'giant' on what it's like to be 7ft tall
Posted on Saturday May 18, 2019

Hafeez Oladimeji Agoro says that, although many get scared of him at first sight, they end up wanting to take pictures with him.

Mothers speak out over Kenya femicide cases
Posted on Friday May 17, 2019

Kenyan mothers whose daughters have been killed are joining a national conversation about femicide.

'Bodybuilding helped me overcome my depression'
Posted on Thursday May 16, 2019

How Sheetal "Strong" Kotak from Kenya used bodybuilding to help overcome her depression.

Zainab Aliyu: Nigerian student's Saudi drug charge trauma
Posted on Wednesday May 15, 2019

Nigerian student Zainab Aliyu is back with her family after the dropping of her Saudi drug charges.

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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 | Angola to re-bury body of rebel chief Savimbi
Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2019

The exhumed body of Angolan rebel chief Jonas Savimbi, who was killed in 2002, will be reburied in his hometown next month, authorities said after DNA tests confirmed the identity of the remains.

News24.com | DRC must unite in Ebola fight amid 'high' risk of spread - WHO chief
Posted on Tuesday May 21, 2019

The World Health Organisation chief urged different political factions in the Democratic Republic of Congo to unite in the battle against Ebola, warning that the risk of spread "remains very high".

News24.com | Kenyan Somali refugees claim they are denied citizenship rights
Posted on Monday May 20, 2019

Poor Kenyan Somalis registered as Dadaab refugees to access benefits, but say they are now being refused nationality.

News24.com | WATCH: 'Rivers' of plastic block Kinshasa's waterways
Posted on Sunday May 19, 2019

In the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital city Kinshasa residents are fed up of the 'rivers' of plastic waste taking over the city's waterways as thousands of plastic bottles have piled up over the years, causing deadly floods when it rains.

News24.com | Egypt blackface sketch spotlights racism in region
Posted on Sunday May 19, 2019

An Egyptian comedian has sparked anger by using blackface in a sketch and mocking Sudanese people, drawing attention to what experts say is a deeper racism problem in the region.

News24.com | UN human rights expert denounces attacks on Sudan protesters
Posted on Sunday May 19, 2019

UN Sudan expert calls for 'thorough' probes into killings of demonstrators amid breakdown in political transition talks.

News24.com | Violent kidnappings-for-ransom spread across Nigeria
Posted on Saturday May 18, 2019

Aminu Magami, a taxi driver in northwest Nigeria, froze in fear when more than 20 gunmen stormed an expressway one night in February, shooting into the air.

News24.com | Uganda media in court after Bobi Wine coverage
Posted on Friday May 17, 2019

Media groups are challenging a decision by the country's communications regulator to remove dozens of senior journalists from their news management roles over coverage of music star turned politician Bobi Wine, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.

News24.com | South Sudan sacks 40 overseas diplomats for going AWOL
Posted on Thursday May 16, 2019

South Sudan says it has sacked 40 overseas diplomats for not showing up for work, some of them for years.

News24.com | Anglo American opens Zimbabwe's first platinum smelter
Posted on Thursday May 16, 2019

Mining giant Anglo American has opened a $62-million platinum smelter in Zimbabwe, the country's first such refinery, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed to boost the country's valuable platinum sector.

News24.com | Egypt's Sinai: At least 47 fighters, 5 troops killed in battle
Posted on Thursday May 16, 2019

Forty-seven fighters and five Egyptian soldiers were killed during Egypt's ongoing military offensive in the restive Sinai Peninsula, where it is fighting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

News24.com | Kenyan al-Shabaab returnees recount stories of pain and fear
Posted on Thursday May 16, 2019

Human rights campaigners say hundreds of Kenyans willingly joined al-Shaabab as fighters, porters and wives or were duped to do so.

News24.com | Zimbabwe earns foreign currency boost from sale of nearly 100 elephants to China
Posted on Thursday May 16, 2019

Zimbabwe has boosted its foreign currency reserves after the country sold nearly 100 elephants to China.

News24.com | Egypt's Sisi hosts Abu Dhabi crown prince amid Gulf tensions
Posted on Thursday May 16, 2019

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has met Abu Dhabi's powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the presidency says, amid rising tensions in the Gulf.

News24.com | Shots fired in Sudan ahead of crunch talks on ruling body
Posted on Wednesday May 15, 2019

At least eight people have been reported wounded by gunshots near a Khartoum sit-in , before crucial talks between military chiefs and protest leaders over a transitional governing body.

News24.com | UN demands Tunisia drop charges against arms expert
Posted on Wednesday May 15, 2019

The United Nations has rejected Tunisia's reasons for the arrest in March of a UN expert on suspicion of espionage and demanded that charges against him dropped.

News24.com | 24 Algerian police officers wounded in protest
Posted on Wednesday May 15, 2019

At least 24 police officers have been wounded in clashes with protesters rallying against unemployment in central Algeria, state media reported.

News24.com | Feud between Rwanda, Uganda strongmen takes toll
Posted on Wednesday May 15, 2019

The people living on either side of the Ugandan-Rwandan border at Katuna never much considered the boundary: Children crossed for school, workers moved freely and trade thrived.

Fin24.com | Military stake stymies R57bn Zim platinum project
Posted on Wednesday May 15, 2019

A plan to build Zimbabwe’s biggest platinum mine at a cost of about $4bn, about R57bn, is floundering because a military stake in the project has deterred potential backers, according to people familiar with the funding discussions.

News24.com | Grace Mugabe faces new assault charge
Posted on Wednesday May 15, 2019

Former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe is facing a new charge of assault, which stems from an incident with her housekeeper.

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