Despite faltering economic growth with the crash in commodity prices, the prospects for Sub-Saharan Africa’s hotel industry remain positive, with a demand growth rate of 3% to 5% in the next three years, a new report says.
A court in the central African nation of Chad has ordered Exxon Mobil to pay $74 billion in fines, a record figure that is almost seven times the country’s gross domestic product.
The numbers say it all: more than 10,000 people have been rescued in the last 48 hours while trying to reach Europe from Libya, according to Italy’s coastguard.
Following the death of at least 55 people in the weekend, Ethiopia is coming out of a three-day national mourning with a complete internet shutdown and more protests engulfing the country.
Motorcycle taxis, locally known as boda bodas in Kenya and Tanzania or okada in Nigeria, are set to become a significant mode of transportation in Africa in the next five years, a new report shows.
Libya and Côte d’Ivoire are the two leading exemplars of the trajectory of African governance in the last decade, according to the 2016 Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance (pdf). While Côte d’Ivoire has continued to prosper under its current president Alassane Ouattara, holding the top spot for the most improved country in the continent, Libya’s governmental infrastructure has dissolved, leaving behind a country controlled by a myriad of armed groups ensuring it has dropped to the bottom of the ranking this year.
Susan Murabana’s work recognizes a modest, but important fact: that the telescope has been around for over 400 years, yet most people have never looked through one.
Before he settled in the United States and pursued his love for cooking, Alfred Olango was a child refugee who fled war and persecution in his home country of Uganda. Born in the capital Kampala, Olango and his family survived living in a refugee camp, before arriving in New York in 1991 in search of a better future.
Uganda’s government said it will deliver free Wi-Fi services in the capital Kampala as part of an initiative to broaden the reach of the internet access to the public.
A Canadian mining company is being sued for compensation by Eritreans claiming they worked for it while serving in the country’s conscription program.
A man shot by police in southern California on Tuesday (Sept. 27) was an unarmed Ugandan immigrant, who was also reported to be mentally ill. Alfred Olango, 38, was shot dead in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon, after his sister called the police saying that her brother had mental health problems and was acting out.
When the fighter jets drop the bombs, the White Helmets move in.
In African elections, discontent is the new frontrunner.
For a trip to the Puntland region in northeastern Somalia, Christian Matzenauer didn’t know what to expect. After traveling from Dusseldorf, Germany to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia he flew to the Somali city of Bosaso in January, drove along the coast to the towns of Alula and Bareeda, before finally arriving at Tohen.
The United Kingdom will support a plan to create 100,000 jobs in Ethiopia, as part of a wider campaign to tackle the migration crisis in the Horn of Africa nation.
An eight-year-old boy in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, takes a leap into the pounding waves of the Atlantic Ocean. A law student in Nigeria is sitting in a car, heading to graduation, her eyes focused and fixated, looking away from the camera. A man in Mauritania, wearing an indigo-dyed traditional garment, is pulling at a goat meant for slaughter for the Muslim’s Feast of Sacrifice celebration.
Gabon’s Constitutional Court on Friday (Sept. 23) upheld the re-election of incumbent president Ali Bongo, extending his family’s five-decade rule over the oil-rich, small Central African nation.
Somalia goes to the polls from this Saturday (Sept. 24) to elect a new government. The historic elections mark only the second time since 1969 (pdf, p. 12) that both parliamentary and presidential elections will be held on Somali soil—significant progress for a country scarred by decades of civil war and brutal terrorist attacks. They’re also taking place at a time when the country’s democratic institutions have never been stronger.
Despite the threats of terrorism, electoral tension, and political violence, air travel to East Africa has increased over the last year, a breakdown of flight reservations suggest.
Ana Taban. I am tired.
Kenya and Somalia are in dispute over a potentially lucrative, triangular stretch of 100,000 square kilometers of offshore territory believed to contain large oil and gas deposits. In the latest twist, Somalia has won a hearing on its case before the International Court of Justice from Sept. 19 to Sept. 23, in accordance with the application filed by Somalia in August 2014.
The West African nation of Senegal has a child problem: tens of thousands of street children, aged between 5 and 15, victims of forced begging and abuse, roam its streets.
At night, Feyisa Lilesa and his friends hid in the farms to evade the security forces who were arresting people across the country. As a 15-year-old growing up in Oromia region, Lilesa says he was always aware that many of his fellow citizens didn’t approve of the government’s treatment.
Large companies in Africa are growing faster than their peers in the rest of the world, raking in $1.4 trillion in annual profits and contributing to government taxes and higher wages, a new report finds.
