Abdi Latif Dahir

Kenya has fired a direct shot at the nation’s endemic corruption: by issuing a new generation of banknotes.

For Chinese phone manufacturer Transsion, localization isn’t just a marketing strategy: it’s the secret ingredient that has placed it ahead of all its competitors in Africa. The company has bet on African consumers by making affordable handsets with advanced features using an aggressive distribution network.

If one is to credit the hypothetical, then the success of the Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho began very much in Africa.

Huawei is currently fighting a ban in the US aimed at curtailing purchases on its equipment and limiting its global reach. But that’s not the case in Africa, where the company has rapidly expanded since starting operations here over two decades ago.

Ciiru Waweru’s business is never devoid of challenges.

At first glance, Matthew Rugamba’s big break was the result of pure serendipity.

Kenya’s high court has declined to strike down a colonial-era law that criminalizes consensual gay sex, ruling that petitioners failed to provide “credible evidence” the law infringed on their rights.

The last time I saw the Kenyan writer and thinker Binyavanga Wainaina was on an afternoon in mid-December 2017. There he was, in a street near my home southwest of the capital Nairobi, donning an orange African print dress, a beaded necklace, earrings, and taking his dog for a walk. It was a sight that stopped many in the neighborhood’s shopping center in their tracks, with some openly gasping and others ruminating on the brawny man in colorful attire smiling in their direction.

Malawi has joined the list of African states that have experienced disrupted internet during crucial election periods.

Information is the new currency we trade in today’s digital world. That’s why there’s increasing concern about who has control over our ability to get online, who can access our information, and how companies and governments should improve the right to privacy and freedom of expression.

The historic burden wrought by World War II continues to equally shape the world today and haunt the lives of the young and old. For the Polish refugees who were exiled in Africa during that era, the war has come to define a loss of not just loved ones but of their homeland and history as well.

African nations have increasingly taken to blocking social media access during protests and contentious elections. Now, Somalia is doing the same—to stop students cheating.

*An earlier version of this story included The Gap as one of the apparel companies  supplied by the Ethiopian factories based on the NYU Stern report. The authors of the report have since corrected their report and say The Gap is not included.

You can now hail a motorcycle service in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

When it comes to Airbnb occupancy rates in Africa, a volcanic island that sprang out of the ocean three million years ago leads the way.

The Upper Guinean Forest is considered one of the world’s most biologically diverse ecosystems, a dense tropical rainforest in West Africa stretching from Sierra Leone to Nigeria.

After seven years of construction and over $1 billion in expenses, a new mosque in Algeria is set to break new global records.

Benin’s legislative elections today will have no one contesting from the opposition parties. Another thing that voters won’t have access to: the internet.

The relationship between China and the world is under focus again this week.

Beijing wants to deploy international media outlets to allay fears about its trillion-dollar global trade and infrastructure initiative.

It was a stroke of serendipity that led to a historic finding.

The future of Sudan is hanging in the balance.

In the photo, the ballerina’s twisted fingers dance towards the gloomy sky.

British police this week arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London in response to a US extradition request on charges that he helped hack Pentagon computers in 2010.