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Kenya: Ruto’s tiff with media puts democracy at stake

It’s a long-standing Kenyan tradition to offer congratulations in paid print and TV messages to an incoming president. The bulk…

Liz Truss: UK-Africa ties face a gloomy future as political myopia reigns

Africa is likely to feature in British high-level politics only when it is in the government’s narrow self-interest.

Africa’s crypto future

African nations are at the vanguard of the new movement towards central bank digital currencies, in a desperate bid to…

Zimbabwe nurses are being caught in UK ‘bonded labour’ schemes

Care workers, lured from south east Africa to start their careers in the United Kingdom, are being scammed and exploited…

The tough decisions facing South Africa’s ANC

The Kenyan elections have just concluded with the outcome now being contested in court. Kenyans should, up until this stage,…

Securing the roles of the future for the next generation in Africa

Investment in the younger generations will be key in the future expansion of Africa’s economy and help create a workforce…

Zimbabwean study challenges notion that women are inherently close to nature

Zimbabwean women are trapped in a cycle of increasing labour and environmental degradation.

70 years on, pioneering art collection returns to Zimbabwe

For the first time in his life, Gift Livingstone Sango, 65, saw a painting by his father depicting Jesus as…

The key to treating TB may be in a common carbohydrate. What we know so far

There are very promising results on the potential treatment of TB using curdlan-based nanoparticles.

Black and Female: A woman’s defiant fight to write

Zimbabwean author celebrates the act of artistic creation while exploring the colonial, racial and gender biases she has faced