December 2

• Ghana: Nation's 'New Path' for Handling Oil Revenue

  Seeking to avoid the ill effects of Africa's resource "curse" Read more »

• Africa: After Africa's Wars, a 'New Day' for Building Peace [interview]

  Concerned about the fragile state of countries that have recently emerged from war -- and their vulnerability to new bouts of violence -- the UN in 2005 established the... Read more »

December 1

• Africa: 'Ensure That Everyone Benefits From Economic Gains' [interview]

  In May 2012, Maged Abdelaziz was appointed as the UN's new special adviser on Africa, at the level of under-secretary-general. As head of the Office of the Special Adviser on... Read more »

• Africa: Surgery Brings Hope to Survivors of Genital Cutting

  Tonte Ikoluba was 13 years old when her grandmother came to her family home to circumcise her. She remembers it as if it were yesterday. Read more »

November 30

• Ghana: Nation's 'New Path' for Handling Oil Revenue

  When the oil rigs started pumping crude off the coast of Ghana's Western Region in December 2009, many people hoped for better living standards and development. Read more »

• Africa: Politics of Succession - Coping When Leaders Die

  In December 2008, a Guinean newspaper published a photo of a frail and ailing President Lansana Conté, who appeared to be struggling to stand up. The photo stoked rumours of... Read more »

• Africa: China in the Heart of Africa

  "China's gift to Africa." The new headquarters of the African Union, a towering 20-storey building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is so called because China picked up the $200 million... Read more »

• Malawi: Lessons From Food Crisis

  Once again Malawi finds itself in a tight spot. A food crisis set off by erratic rains, rising food prices and economic hardships is slowly unfolding. Read more »

• Africa: Continent's Food Policy Needs Sharper Teeth

  Amid raving economic forecasts that Africa will be the next big emerging market, chronic food shortages remain stubbornly immune to solutions. Read more »

October 29

• Seychelles: 'Invest in the People,' Says President [interview]

  The Seychelles, with its many Indian Ocean islands and beaches, is renowned as a high-end destination for tourists. Besides profiting from its beautiful landscape, it is also known... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: UN Launches New Emergency Operation to Assist 1.2 Million People

  The United Nations food relief agency today announced it has launched a new emergency operation for the next nine months which aims to assist some 1.2 million people in the... Read more »

• Burundi: Nation's Push for Universal Education

  Offering free education, making it compulsory and supporting it politically has been the winning strategy behind Burundi's successful bid to ensure that virtually all children get... Read more »

• Ghana: Beyond Mining Taxes, to Development

  Obuasi, about 200 kilometres northwest of Accra, Ghana's capital, is home to one of the world's richest gold mines. For more than a hundred years the precious metal mined there has... Read more »

September 17

• Burundi: Nation's Push for Universal Education

  Offering free education, making it compulsory and supporting it politically has been the winning strategy behind Burundi's successful bid to ensure that virtually all children get... Read more »

July 26

• Africa: Building Peace From the Ground Up

  With peace agreements ending wars across Africa, thousands of local communities have in recent years embarked on the long road of rebuilding and revival. The course is daunting:... Read more »

July 25

• Africa: Harnessing African Stock Exchanges to Promote Growth

  Days before Facebook became a public company on 18 May, the hype behind the social network giant went into overdrive. The media proclaimed it the biggest ever stock market... Read more »

• Ghana: Beyond Mining Taxes, to Development

  Obuasi, about 200 kilometres northwest of Accra, Ghana's capital, is home to one of the world's richest gold mines. For more than a hundred years the precious metal mined there has... Read more »

• Africa: Rio Summit Keeps African Hopes Alive

  African expectations were high for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the biggest UN summit ever. The conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June,... Read more »

• Mali: Northern Mali's 'City of Saints' Suffers Rebel Fury

  History dating as far back as the 5th century is literally being chipped away with pick axes and shovels at the hands of an extremist rebel faction in northern Mali. Holy Muslim... Read more »

• Africa: African Schools Keep an Eye On the Prize

  A small, dusty, sparsely furnished building of mud bricks serves as a classroom for pupils at a primary school in Buterere, a town on the outskirts of Burundi's capital. Read more »

• Africa: Blackberries, Google and Fibre-Optic Cables Spread

  It's elegant, it's hip and it's one of the hottest phones on the African market. Nothing says "I am important" like a man or woman whipping out a BlackBerry smartphone. It's easily... Read more »

• Africa: Private Equity - New Cash for Expanding Businesses

  Africa is growing, and African companies need cash to expand. Investors want in on the action, especially given low returns in many other parts of the world these days. But with... Read more »

• Africa: 'Green Economy' - Empty Rhetoric or Pathway to Future?

  With current trends leading the earth to disaster, world leaders and some 40,000 people converged on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June in the hope of charting a path towards a... Read more »

• Africa: African Tourism Comes of Age

  Jet-lagged, 500 delegates from around the world arrived in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in May to deliberate on the path to Africa's tourism future. Read more »

July 23

• Africa: New Book on Warfare in Africa [book review]

  War and Conflict in Africa, by Paul D. Williams (Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2011; 320 pp; $24.95) Read more »