AFRICA

The Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, has been summoned to court for the first time since he was forced out of office more than a […]

There is a comforting mainstream narrative which tells us that African nations, like the rest of the developing world, are doing just fine. Look past […]

An hour and a half’s drive from Bamenda, in Cameroon’s north-west, is Belo, a village largely abandoned except for a military checkpoint manned by drunken […]

Ethiopia has pardoned an opposition leader with British citizenship who had been sentenced to death. Andargachew Tsige was found guilty of “terrorism” and sentenced in […]

A court in Cameroon has sentenced seven activists from the country’s Anglophone minority, including their leader, to up to 15 years in prison for rebellion […]

Five years ago, Yusuf Shegow visited the ruins of the once-grand Al-Uruba hotel overlooking the Indian Ocean on Mogadishu’s waterfront. His grandfather had worked at […]

The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has thus far been confined to remote rural areas, but one case has now been […]

Lecturers will on Thursday resume salary talks with the government days after rejecting an offer. The Universities Academic Staff Union (Uasu) confirmed that it will […]