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Medicine helps their HIV. Hunger makes it hard to take

Many Zambians living with HIV aren’t getting proper nutrition, putting them at even greater risk.

How to help people stay on ARVs when life gets in the way

Without consistent treatment HIV can be transmitted, leading to additional infections.

Young voters should be deciding Zimbabwe’s election in 2023, but are too preoccupied with celebrity gossip

Of Zimbabwe’s 15.1 million people, 70% are under the age of 35 and we should expect some level of focus…

The growing threat of terrorism along Ghana’s borders

There are disturning reports of Ghanaians being recruited into terrorist groups

Ghana’s unpopular tax on mobile money transfers is hitting the poor hardest

Scepticism about mobile money tax is rooted in concerns about equity and in mistrust of the government

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,…