Abdi Latif Dahir

Mauritius is a country of white coral beaches and low mountains located off the southeast coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. Since gaining independence in 1968, the country has been dubbed a miracle: a stable democracy with a robust economy that provides free education and healthcare to all its 1.3 million inhabitants. This middle-income country is often one of the few positive exceptions on global development indexes for Africa.

Kenya continues to make giant strides in its dedication to renewable energy.

After a year, three months, and 17 days, the Republic of Chad finally lifted restrictions on accessing social media outlets.

China has for years faced international pressure over its mass detention of ethnic Uyghur Muslims in the north-western Xinjiang region under the guise of “re-education” against extremist thought. Those moves have now drawn support from 37 countries, including from over a dozen African states some of them with majority Muslim populations.

“Hey, my name is Hodan. And I am Somali.”

Galal Yousif sat hunched in a quiet studio at the Kuona art center west of Nairobi, his fingers moving deftly over a new sketchbook.

The controversy over a planned coal plant in Kenya’s idyllic coast is far from over.

The decision to liberalize Africa’s largest closed telecommunications market comes with so many opportunities—but at a cost.

Amid the rolling hills on the outskirts of Rwanda’s capital Kigali, the Carnegie Mellon University Africa’s new campus is a prominent feature on the lush landscape.

Boeing has set aside $100 million to support the families of victims of its troubled 737 Max aircraft, which experienced two crashes in under six months that killed 346 people.

George Kabau’s family remembers him as a dedicated professional with unflappable geniality, innate warmth, and remarkable resourcefulness.

Bob Collymore, the Guyanese-born British businessman who oversaw the expansion of Kenyan telecoms firm Safaricom into East Africa’s biggest mobile network operator, has died.

Barely a week or month goes by these days without hearing of an internet shutdown taking place in an African state.

The scheme to build Kenya and east Africa’s first coal plant has been stopped.

History and religion converge at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.

The biggest obstacle to Ethiopia’s transition to democracy came knocking this weekend.

The internet shutdown that engulfed Ethiopia last week caught many by surprise.

The influence of Egyptian soccer star Mohammed Salah extends far beyond the pitch.

Nairobi’s residents like to complain that driving from the airport to the city center—a distance of only 17km (10 miles)—can sometimes take longer than traveling to a foreign country.

Getnet Assefa shuffled uneasily in his office seat and wondered aloud why he couldn’t connect to the internet on his laptop.

Ethiopia’s first e-hailing taxi service is scaling beyond the streets of Addis Ababa.

China’s aid outlay to Africa has grown rapidly over the last two decades, rising to its largest figure of $15 billion in 2018. In doling out these packages, president Xi Jinping has stressed the condition-free nature of the assistance and how Beijing wasn’t seeking “selfish political gains in investment and financing cooperation.”

Thousands of Liberians descended on the capital Monrovia today to protest the corruption that has bedeviled president George Weah’s administration. The government’s response: blocking social media outlets.

For the first time ever, residents of Glasgow were in late May treated to a cuppa with a twist: cappuccinos made from camel milk. The Willow Tea Rooms in the Scottish city introduced the new coffee drink as part of a project to support Kenyan female milk traders who are battling climate change in Wajir county located in the nation’s northeast.