I must come clean: I love honorifics. Anything that imparts or implies respect must be cherished. I cherish my Alhaji, Ambassador and MOV and flaunt them proudly. Ambassador (Actually High C... Read more

One wife. Several husbands. Why not? The South African government is considering an update to the country’s marriage laws – and, earlier this month, it published a green paper outlining some... Read more

Despite many African countries struggling to obtain enough Covid-19 vaccines, some have thousands of expired doses which they have been unable to use. A few countries now plan to destroy the... Read more

Some children who have grown up in Africa being forced to speak English are facing an identity crisis. Khahliso Amahle Myataza’s family is from the South African township of Soweto in... Read more

The fate of this year’s African Athletics Championships is unclear after the Algerian government postponed the event, without giving any new dates, due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.... Read more

“Civil war has broken out in Lod.” That is how Mayor Yair Revivo described the situation after violence exploded in the mixed Arab-Jewish Israeli town, lying 15km (9 miles) south... Read more

The Zulu nation is still in shock. The death of Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu caught South Africa by surprise. She became leader of the Zulu nation last month, after her husband,... Read more

Despite many African countries struggling to obtain enough Covid-19 vaccines, some have thousands of expired doses they have been unable to use. Which countries have unused vaccines? Malawi... Read more

The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was once a force to be reckoned with in northern Uganda. “Close friends of mine were abducted [at the time],” says reporter Benson Ongom in the northern city... Read more

East Africa is not done with oil – not quite yet. A major oil pipeline will soon be built across Uganda and Tanzania: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. This could mean good mone... Read more

Idriss Déby has been a huge figure – three decades in power. The most significant military actor in the region, deploying forces to assist Nigeria in the campaign against Boko Haram, a... Read more

Twitter’s got its eye on Ghana. The social media giant wants to open new headquarters in Accra – the company’s first in Africa. Twitter’s also recruiting at least a dozen peo... Read more

President Samia Suluhu Hassan became Tanzania’s first female president when she replaced John Pombe Magufuli, who died in March. She’s also Africa’s only woman leader, apart from Ethiopia’s... Read more

West Africa is the home of cocoa. Roughly 60% of the world’s cocoa supply comes from Ghana and Ivory Coast. But farmers there complain they’re not getting paid fairly for their crops. “You n... Read more