May 31

• Liberia: Sex Educators Struggle to Break Taboos

  Liberian journalist Mae Azango says she spent a year living "like a bat, going from tree to tree" with her daughter in order to escape religious fanatics who were threatening to... Read more »

• Somalia: Warlords and Vague Constitution to Blame for Renegade Somali State

  Attempts by clan elders and militia commanders in southern Somalia to form an autonomous state, without the consent of the central government but with the apparent backing of... Read more »

May 30

• Ghana: Dreams of Education Fly Away for Ghana's Working Kids

  It is a school day but 13-year-old Musah Razark Adams, a Grade 5 primary school pupil in Wuba, northern Ghana, is standing in a rice field wielding a "koglung" - a sling shot to... Read more »

May 29

• Liberia: The Bitter Taste of Liberia's Palm Oil Plantations

  Sackie Qwemie works for Equatorial Palm Oil, the company that took his land in northwestern Liberia. Read more »

• Africa: Sharing Indigenous Knowledge From All Ends of the Globe

  This city in northern Australia brought them together to share their experiences this week. They are indigenous Shipiba people fighting indiscriminate logging in Peru's Amazon... Read more »

May 28

• Africa: Africa "Net Creditor" to Rest of World, New Data Shows

  Over the past three decades, Africa has functioned as a "net creditor" to the rest of the world, the result of a cumulative outflow of nearly a trillion and a half dollars from the... Read more »

• Uganda: From Playing for Food to World Chess Prodigy

  Phiona Mutesi was a muddy, desperate nine-year-old foraging for food in Uganda's biggest slum, Katwe, when she discovered, through her older brother Brian, a chess programme. Read more »

May 27

• Mozambique: Rapping the Country's Praises and Faults

  Mozambique is proud home to not one, but two female rappers who are both qualified lawyers. Yveth "Vauvita" Matunza is striking. She is tall, wearing shoes with enormous stilettos.... Read more »

May 26

• Cameroon: Activists Claim Win As Herakles Halts Cameroon Operation

  After coming under fire from environmental and social justice organisations for violations of land protection laws, Herakles Farms, a New York-based agricultural company, has... Read more »

May 25

• Africa: African Union Must Do More for Peace

  "My husband and older son, unable to cope with the war, became mentally ill. Two of my sons became child soldiers and an eight-year-old daughter was abducted - they were never to... Read more »

May 24

• Africa: 'From Slaves to Generals and Rulers' [interview]

  Say "Africa" and myriad images flood our minds. Like its landscape and peoples, the continent's history is rich and diverse. While numerous books have been written and films made... Read more »

• Africa: Making Every African Child Count [opinion]

  There is much to celebrate this week as the African Union marks 50 years as an independent pan-African entity. In the last half century, Africa has witnessed an era of... Read more »

• Africa: Continent Leads Fight Against HIV

  With its youthful population, fast growing economies and an expanding middle class, Africa has much to celebrate on 25th May, Africa Day. Read more »

• South Sudan: Marrying Off South Sudan's Girls for Cows

  "Our daughters are our only source of wealth. Where else do you expect me to get cows from?" asks 60-year-old Jacob Deng from South Sudan's Jonglei state. Read more »

May 23

• South Africa: Water Debt and Leaks Plague City Residents

  Nokuzola Bulana has a problem with leaks. The water that drips from the pipes of the toilet outside her home in Khayelitsha, a large semi-informal township on the fringes of Cape... Read more »

May 22

• Africa: Can South Africa Help Nigeria to Industrialise?

  The lack of economic diversification throughout sub-Saharan Africa means that despite South Africa's pledges to help Nigeria make the automotive sector the West African nation's... Read more »

• Kenya: Growing Peas and Greens to Maximise Water Usage

  Amid warnings that Kenya's agricultural water use is surpassing sustainable levels and adversely affecting food security, biodiversity researchers say that agrobiodiversity should... Read more »

• Africa: New Effort Targets the Leading Killers of Children

  PATH, a Seattle-based global health development organisation, is aiming to save two million lives by 2015 by jointly tackling diarrhea and pneumonia, the leading killers of... Read more »

May 21

• Zimbabwe: Ruling Party Militias Spread Fear of Voting

  For the last month Gibson Severe and his wife, Merjury Severe, known opposition supporters from Hurungwe district in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland West Province, have been hiding out in... Read more »

May 20

• Malawi: How to Save a Fish ... a Lake and a People

  Lloyd Phiri, a fisherman from Senga Bay on Lake Malawi's shores in Malawi's central region, knows that the lake's water levels are dropping. He can see it in his catch, which has... Read more »

• Africa: It Takes a Village to Educate a Girl

  A decade ago, less than a third of school-aged girls in Niger were in class. Today, though significant cultural and religious opposition remains, nearly two-thirds of girls are... Read more »

May 19

• Africa: Put a Spotlight on African Women's Reproductive Rights [opinion]

  Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. "I started labour in the morning on a Friday ... The nurse kept checking and saying I would deliver... Read more »

May 17

• Africa: Civil Society Under Attack Around the World [analysis]

  In this column, Mandeep Tiwana, policy and advocacy manager of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, writes that civil society organisations around the globe face... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: Pressure Mounting On U.S. Over Congo Violence

  With casualties in the long-running conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) now surpassing every conflict since World War II, U.S. policymakers and advocates are... Read more »

• South Africa: Is Aid Drying Up?

  Commentators and business leaders in South Africa believe that the recent announcement of an end to the United Kingdom's aid programme to South Africa may be the start of a new... Read more »