Abdi Latif Dahir

Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn has stepped down.

African countries notched a 12%-growth in active social media users to 191 million last year, according to a report by global digital agencies, We Are Social and Hootsuite. Of those, mobile users accounted for 172 million, most of whom used only two Facebook-owned platforms: WhatsApp and Messenger.

After a year of being in the works, the official presidential portrait of Barack Obama by painter Kehinde Wiley was unveiled on Monday (Feb. 13).

When Ethiopia announced last month that it would release political prisoners and close a controversial detention facility, many viewed it as a promising sign that the Horn of Africa nation was shifting toward real democracy.

After twice skipping announcing a winner, the 2017 Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has been awarded to Liberia’s former president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

There’s a general misconception that whatever passes for popular art in Kenya are the curios sold to tourists or the murals that hang in restaurants and airport lounges.

Carl Joshua Ncube was away in the resort town of Victoria Falls, more than 430 miles from Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, when his countrymen took to the streets in mid-November last year to protest former president Robert Mugabe’s rule.

Miguna Miguna, a lawyer who administered the swearing-in ceremony of opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga as the “people’s president,” was deported to Canada on Tuesday night (Feb. 6).

Esmond Bradley Martin, one of the world’s top ivory investigators, who also helped persuade China to shut down its legal rhino horn and ivory trades, has been killed in Nairobi.

Evidence continues to mount that refugees deported by Israel to third countries in Africa face grave dangers and death, including risking their lives by taking perilous onward journeys to Europe.

More than two years after it launched in Kenya, the ride-hailing app Mondo Ride has closed a second financing round of $2 million, bringing its total seed investment to $5 million.

Somalia has the longest coastline in mainland Africa, stretching more than 3,000 kilometers (1880 miles) across the Horn.

It was a tense Wednesday night (Jan. 31) at the Nation Television offices in downtown Nairobi after the media outlet reported that plainclothes officers had gathered outside its headquarters to arrest three of its top journalists.

The African Union (AU) has rebuked Mauritania for failing to prosecute the perpetrators of slavery—a prevalent, and at times institutionalized, practice in the North African nation.

Months after balking at the plan and raising doubts about whether it would make good on its promise, Kenya’s opposition coalition has sworn in Raila Odinga as the “people’s president.”

China’s government has denied reports that it spied on the servers at the African Union’s Chinese-built headquarters for more than five years, gaining access to confidential information.

Two international digital rights advocacy groups have joined the growing clamor to stop Cameroon’s government disrupting internet services in its Anglophone regions.

Updated headline: Clarifies the civilian inspectors being paid a bonus of $9,000 are not ordinary civilians. 

A lot has been written about how the deployment of new technologies could help African countries solve, or even leapfrog, some of the many developmental problems they face on a daily basis. But technological advances also do bring their own challenges.

On the day it launched in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, the movie Watu Wote: All of Us bagged its biggest win yet: a nomination at the Oscars’ Live Action Short Film category.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has in recent years emerged as one of the most important nations to watch for digital rights violations in Africa. As the political reality in the central African nation heats up, authorities have resorted to a distinct tactic to keep demonstrations and anti-government rhetoric in check: shutting down the internet and SMS services.

American conservatives and alt-right media outlets are not happy with a US program that aims to address the links between masculinity and violent extremism in Kenya.

Tanzania’s populist president John Magufuli strode into office in late 2015 promising to tackle corruption and introduce large-scale reforms.

With a mix of strategic investments and partnerships, airline acquisitions, and efficient service delivery, Ethiopian Airlines hopes to take over Africa’s skies and change air travel on the continent.