Facebook's Free Basics is a dictator's dream
No matter how many plates of fish Mark Zuckerberg eats, Facebook doesn't get Africa.
Rio quits Guinea iron ore project
Rio Tinto has signed a preliminary deal to sell its stake in Guinea's Simandou iron ore project to Chinalco.
Curious links between France and corrupt African regime
For now, Hollande has refrained from intervening.
Zimbabwe threatens to seize farms of party defectors
High-ranking officials in the governing party received the best farms.
Silence of the animals
Africa's big mammals are disappearing. Photographer Nick Brandt is making sure we remember what we need to save.
Has South Africa finally moved away from politics based on race?
An electoral earthquake has just shaken South Africa, with the once dominant ANC being punished in its urban strongholds.
It's time to call it quits on the African Union
The AU has achieved spectacularly little in its decade and a half of existence.
ANC set to lose Pretoria
South Africa's ruling party may be heading towards its first major loss since the end of apartheid
Nigerian gunmen release MacMahon contractors
MacMahon Holdings said Nigerian gunmen had released all seven of its contractors who had been kidnapped last week.
Youth gangs close Rio Tinto mine
For five days this week Rio Tinto locked out workers from its Richards Bay minerals sands operation in South Africa.
The worst dictatorship you have never heard of
It is for this reason that the United States should move beyond rhetoric and sanction Jammeh's regime.
