November 19

• Africa: Fixing the 'Silent' Sanitation Crisis

  Organisers of this year's World Toilet Day, which falls on Nov. 19, are using the slogan 'I give a shit - do you?' to break the silence around the crucial issue of sanitation and... Read more »

November 16

• Nigeria: Teach a Woman to Farm... and She Creates Jobs

  Give a woman a hand-out and you feed her for a day. But teach her to farm, and how to add value to her product, and you feed her and her family for a lifetime. And if she happens... Read more »

• Uganda: How African Men Are Changing Traditional Beliefs [opinion]

  Charles Kayongo of Uganda is a father of two girls aged five and three. And even though age-old traditions among his ethnic group, the Baganda, say a man should have an unlimited... Read more »

November 15

• Uganda: No Contraceptives Means More Illegal Abortions in Uganda

  Every day at least five women are brought to the gynaecological ward of Uganda's Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala for treatment for complications caused by crude... Read more »

November 14

• Africa: Portrait of the Superstars of Celebrity Activism [interview]

  Start a global debate about the underlying reasons why poverty exists - and do it through cinema. Read more »

November 13

• Africa: Canada Eyes African Resources

  With an initial focus on oil-producing Nigeria and mineral-rich Ghana, Ottawa is bolstering its trade strategy in Africa, but some within the international development and economic... Read more »

• Mali: Will Prime Minister Resign?

  West African heads of state have restated their determination that no member of Mali's transitional government will be allowed to stand in the country's next presidential election.... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Ogaden Peace Talks Fail

  Many were hoping that recent peace talks between the Ethiopian government and Ogaden rebels would signal an end to the gruelling 18-year-old conflict. The latest round of talks,... Read more »

November 12

• Senegal: Senegal Villages Aspire to Self-Sufficiency in Rice

  The residents of five villages in the Boyard Valley, in southwestern Senegal, are freeing themselves from "the tyranny of imported rice" by stepping up local production of this... Read more »

November 10

• Africa: Major Malaria Vaccine Less Effective Than Hoped

  Researchers unveiling critical trial results of a potentially major anti-malaria vaccine are expressing disappointment that the drug's efficacy levels have proved lower than they... Read more »

• Malawi: Dark Days Loom for Tobacco

  The latest proposals by the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to stop farming of the crop could potentially affect about two million livelihoods in... Read more »

November 9

• Cameroon: The Sun Rescues Rural Cameroonians From 'Incessant Darkness'

  In the small farming village of Sabongari, in Cameroon's North West Region, the need for kerosene to light bush lamps and petrol to run electric generators has been replaced by the... Read more »

November 8

• Cameroon: New Vote Move May Bar Women

  Cameroon's new biometric registration of voters may end up disenfranchising many potential voters, especially women in the country's predominantly Muslim north where cultural... Read more »

November 7

• Congo-Kinshasa: Farm Holds Out Hope for Peace and Development [analysis]

  Dairy cattle are again grazing on the rolling green hills of North Kivu province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Twenty years ago, an explosion of ethnic violence... Read more »

• Sierra Leone: Women Shoot Themselves in the Foot in Elections

  Only 38 women - of a total of 586 candidates - will contest parliamentary seats in Sierra Leone's November elections, and the blame for this can be laid squarely on the shoulders... Read more »

November 6

• Kenya: Senate Candidate Runs Against Homophobia

  During an interview at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Nairobi, David Kuria Mbote, Kenya's first openly homosexual candidate for public office, stresses that his campaign will not be... Read more »

November 5

• Africa: Exposing the Good, the Bad and the Lack of Media Freedom [interview]

  Pansy Tlakula, the African Union's Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, has done her best to address the continued harassment of journalists in... Read more »

November 4

• Nigeria: Military Curfew Slowly Strangling Potiskum

  A recent military curfew imposed on the violence-wracked north-eastern Nigerian town of Potiskum has not only made life unbearable for residents, but it has also reduced their... Read more »

• Mali: U.S. Impatient With African Response to Northern Mali Conflict

  Despite growing western concerns about the continuing reign in northern Mali by an Al Qaeda-linked group, analysts here say it will take months before conditions could be ripe to... Read more »

November 2

• Kenya: Kenyan Women Set to Take On Men in Elections [interview]

  Brian Ngugi interviews Winnie Lichuma, chairwoman of the National Gender and Equality Commission. Read more »

• Kenya: Indigenous People Seek Profits From Forests

  Kenya's Ogiek community, the indigenous group of hunter-gatherers who were evicted from the Mau Forest three years ago, say they will no longer sit by and watch logging companies... Read more »

November 1

• Zambia: Foreign Farmers Undermine Food Security

  Increased agricultural development in Zambia will actually compromise the country's food security as peasant farmers continue to be driven off their customary land to pave the way... Read more »

October 31

• South Sudan: Ethnic Tensions on the Rise

  The huge Russian-made helicopter descended slowly towards conical mud huts clustered together and surrounded by endless grassland, lush and green with the season's rains here in... Read more »

• Guinea: What Price Rice May Do

  Rice remains the most popular staple in Guinea, but the high price of imported rice is pushing many consumers in this West African country to change their diet. Farmers have... Read more »

October 30

• Congo-Kinshasa: Students Torn Between School and Work

  Hanging from the door of a mini-bus taxi as it jerks and jinks through traffic, 16-year-old Gires Manoka calls out the van's destination to potential passengers as it crosses... Read more »