Zimbabwe’s white farmers: Who will pay compensation?

In Zimbabwe, thousands of white farmers were forced from their farms, sometimes violently, between 2000 and 2001 under...

Can South Africa’s Ramaphosa turn his government around?

  Siobhán O’Grady/Washington Post  A quarter-century after the African National Congress first took control of South Africa’s government,...

Xenophobic attacks in South Africa evidence of leadership gone awry

If the marker of 25 years after the collapse of apartheid in South Africa is Xenophobia, Africa still...

Drought does not cause famine; bad politics does

Drought does not cause famine; bad politics does It is a harbinger of famine. But it is not...

Why the US is engineering political change in East Africa

The competition between great powers has triggered a string of major political developments in East Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea,...

Liberia’s ‘missing millions’: Charles Sirleaf charged

The son of Liberia’s ex-President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been charged with economic sabotage in connection with the...

Freeing the child slaves of Lake Volta

Letter from Africa: Kenya unveils biblical strategy to tackle corruption

In our series of letters from African journalists, Kenyan Joseph Warungu looks at the new strategy by the...

Kivu, the forgotten war in the heart of Africa

In Summary Fighting in Kivu, a region in the east of the vast powder-keg state of the Democratic...

SA, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya tops Africa wealth report

South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya are top five African countries with wealthiest individuals based on figures...