June 27

• South Sudan: South Sudan's 'State Actors' Turn On Journalists and Aid Workers

  Since age 18, Zechariah Manyok Biar fought in the revolutionary army that won South Sudan's independence from Sudan in July 2011. But now the 28-year-old is in exile from the... Read more »

June 26

• Africa: 'Smiling Coast of Africa' Works to Attract Tourists [analysis]

  Mr. and Mrs. Gridley* are among a handful of tourists laying pool side and working on their tropical tan at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, a five-star hotel on the idyllic coast of... Read more »

• Ethiopia: How One Woman Demands Answers and an End to FGM [interview]

  Bogaletch Gebre knows exactly what women in her Ethiopian community are going through. Along with her sisters, the women's rights activist was a victim of female genital mutilation... Read more »

June 25

• Mauritania: Farming in the Mauritian Sea

  "No fighting, please. Everybody will get their fish. Give us time to empty the crates and weigh today's catch," Patrick Guiliano Marie, leader of the St. Pierre Fish Multi-Purpose... Read more »

June 24

• Africa: For Africa Trip, Obama Urged to Prioritise Development

  Advocacy groups here are urging U.S. President Barack Obama to focus on more than just economic development during his upcoming trip to Africa. Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Women in Parliament Will Change Widow's Lives

  When Maude Taruvinga* votes in Zimbabwe's elections later this year, she will be voting for her local female politician as she has placed her hopes for a better future on the... Read more »

June 23

• Uganda: Teen Turns to Poultry to Fight Poverty

  When Eunice Namugerwa, an 18-year-old living in Kampala's Kisenyi slum, decided to start a business to support her family last August, she scrawled three ideas down on a bit of... Read more »

June 22

• Eritrea: Refugees Trapped in Middle

  In February 2013, 20-year-old Mohamed*, like hundreds of thousands of other Eritreans, fled the brutal dictatorship in that East African nation in search of a better life in... Read more »

June 21

• Africa: Biofortification May Hold Keys to "Hidden Hunger"

  The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which works to end malnutrition among more than two billion people worldwide, is expressing strong support for enriching the... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Time Still Not Right for Congolese Refugees to Return

  Tuyisenge*, a former teacher from the Democratic Republic of Congo province of North Kivu, sat on a tree stump watching his fellow refugees go about their lives along the terraces... Read more »

June 20

• Africa: Climate Change Promises Tough Times for Asia and Africa - Report

  Extreme heat, flooding and water and food shortages will rock South Asia and Africa by 2030 and render large sections of cities inhabitable, if the world continues to burn huge... Read more »

• Somalia: Somalia's 'Cultural Shift' Means Less-Severe Form of FGM

  Seven-year-old Istar Mumin lies on a bed, motionless, in one of the rooms of her family home in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne district. She has just gone through the horrifying ritual of... Read more »

June 19

• Zimbabwe: Rebuilding Zimbabwe's Health System

  A newborn baby lets out a feeble cry as midwife Anna Mungara tends to a small wound on its head, at the provincial hospital in Masvingo, a town in southeast Zimbabwe. Read more »

June 18

• Angola: Diamond Mining Could Push Angola's Antelope to Extinction

  Environmental campaigners are urging the Angolan government to halt plans to mine diamonds inside a national reserve that is home to the world's last wild population of a rare... Read more »

June 17

• Tanzania: Stealing Gas From the Poor to Power the Rich

  In Kilwa District in southern Tanzania local community leader and fisherman Salim Riziki stands next to a set of turbines, newly imported from Dubai, talking about the gas finds on... Read more »

• South Africa: Freeing Trade Between South Africa and Nigeria

  If a Free Trade Area were to be negotiated between Africa's two largest economies, South Africa and Nigeria, it would have a powerful effect on trade across the sub-continent and... Read more »

June 16

• Ethiopia: Examining the Depths of Ethiopia's Corruption

  Ethiopia may be one of the fastest-growing, non-oil producing economies in Africa in recent years, but corruption in this Horn of Africa nation is a deterrent to foreign investors... Read more »

June 15

• Swaziland: Seeds Beat Drought

  The overcast sky is a sign that it might rain, and Happy Shongwe, a smallholder farmer from rural Maphungwane in eastern Swaziland, is not exactly happy. Read more »

June 14

• Africa: Q&A - of Riots and Rice in Africa

  Thanks to food riots in several African cities fuelled by high rice prices between 2007 and 2008, sub-Saharan Africa is growing and eating more rice after governments were forced... Read more »

• Zimbabwe: Farmers Adrift Amid Power Struggles

  For the past five years, farmer Melusi Mhlanga has spent nearly 200 dollars each season for inputs, but the maize yields have not matched his investment. "With good rains I have... Read more »

• Kenya: Citizens Mobilise Against Taxing the Poor

  On a side street in Nairobi's bustling neighbourhood of Shauri Moyo, Faisal Ngila shouts to street vendors, motorbike taxi drivers and pedestrians. "Do you know taxes are... Read more »

June 13

• Kenya: Girls Take Charge in the Fight to End Female Genital Mutilation

  Some girls among the Pokot community in western Kenya are bravely defying what is considered cultural and traditional by refusing to be circumcised. More and more mothers, fathers... Read more »

• Africa: Is the 2030 Goal for Hunger Eradication Realistic?

  With less than three years before a 2015 deadline, the developing world is largely expected to miss one of the U.N.'s key Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): halving the number of... Read more »

• South Sudan: Ending Child Marriage Will Require a Comprehensive Approach [opinion]

  Akech B. loved to study and dreamed of becoming a nurse. But when she was 14, her uncle who was raising her forced her to leave school to marry a man Akech described as old and... Read more »

• Uganda: Putting Working Children Back in School

  Children around the world may complain about attending school and doing their homework, but not 14-year-old Raya*. Read more »