November 30

• Congo-Kinshasa: Is Facebook Mobile Moving Youth in the Wrong Direction?

  The growing use of Facebook Mobile has many concerned in this city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Now that young people have the social network literally at their... Read more »

November 29

• Zimbabwe: Villagers Warned Limbs Will Be Cut Off - Report

  Villagers in Nyanga and Binga have been warned by Zanu (PF) militias that their limbs will be cut off if they fail to attend the party's meetings. Read more »

• Kenya: An Abortion That Got Rid of Too Much - Part 2

  This is the continued story of Lydiah Kagere, a woman whose illegal abortion resulted in the loss of her uterus. Part 1 describes how the university student endured the procedure.... Read more »

November 28

• Kenya: An Abortion That Got Rid of Too Much

  Lydiah Kagere could not go about her business without glancing back. She imagined that everybody knew her secret and that they were all talking about her. She had lost a part of... Read more »

November 26

• Uganda: One Dam Too Far

  It's been an intense past month for residents of Bulusambu in Uganda's Mbale district. Some villagers here have literally taken up arms as they protest the proposed construction of... Read more »

November 25

• Congo-Kinshasa: A Rapper From Goma With No Time for Booty Shaking

  Shortly before the escalation of violence in North Kivu, RNW was in Goma, talking with one of the many young, talented and socially engaged rappers who have called this city home.... Read more »

November 23

• Sierra Leone: Closure in Dutch Murder Case Opens Old Wounds

  In 1999, the rape and killing of a 16-year-old girl in a quiet rural area of the Netherlands had many rushing to blame the residents of a nearby asylum seekers centre for the... Read more »

November 22

• Africa: #Accessibility for Africa @ Internet Governance Forum

  At the Seventh Annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF), activists, government members, technicians and businesspeople from all over the world came together to discuss nothing less... Read more »

• Africa: Why Are Africans for Norway? [interview]

  A new spoof charity music video is raising as many eyebrows as it is smiles. 'Africa for Norway' is a parody of initiatives, such as Band Aid, which showcase top stars singing for... Read more »

November 21

• Rwanda: No Aid for M23, Says Dutch Minister [interview]

  Three days before M23 rebels took control of the Congolese city of Goma, RNW were speaking with the Netherlands new minister for foreign trade and development cooperation. On... Read more »

November 20

• Kenya: Law Aims to Legalize Polygamy

  Kenya is showing mixed reactions to the cabinet's recently approved Marriage Bill 2012. One of its most conversation-generating proposals is to legalize polygamy. Read more »

November 19

• Congo-Kinshasa: A Youth Demonstration to Support the M23?

  The M23 rebel movement is using youth in territories under their control to deny allegations of rape and forced enrolment of minors. This is a report from the heart of a... Read more »

November 18

• Ethiopia: Thumbs Up Africa Blog Seven - Being 17 Again in Ethiopia [opinion]

  Hunter S. Thompson left the world one famous lesson. If you want to know what you're talking about, you have to try it out yourself. He named it gonzo journalism. Although I have... Read more »

• South Africa: Stories of a Landowning Black Middle Class Predate Apartheid [opinion]

  "Young and driving a BMW" is how the black middle class has often appeared in studies of post-apartheid South Africa, says Cape Town scholar Nkululeko Mabandla. But his thesis,... Read more »

November 17

• Congo-Kinshasa: How Congolese Yankees Use Cool to Conquer the City [opinion]

  Youth from the DRC city of Kisangani are embracing a newly found identity to survive - and succeed in - life, reports Catherina Wilson in her award-nominated thesis. Reader, meet... Read more »

November 16

• Congo-Kinshasa: A Red Armband for Dr. Mukwege

  The situation has been very tense at Panzi Hospital since the assassination attempt on Doctor Denis Mukwege that forced him to flee home in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo... Read more »

• Ghana: Chinese in Ghana Unaware of Their Bad Rep

  Chinese migrants in Ghana are growing and so is their notoriety, says a study by a nominee of the African Thesis Awards 2012. Yet according to Judith Zoetelief, the author of the... Read more »

• Ghana: Thesis Award Nominee Explores Bad Reputation of Chinese in Ghana [opinion]

  Chinese migrants in Ghana are growing and so is their notoriety, says a study by a nominee of the African Thesis Awards 2012. Yet according to Judith Zoetelief, the author of the... Read more »

November 14

• Africa: International Criminal Court Turns 10

  Dignitaries, ambassadors, NGOs and the Dutch monarch, Queen Beatrix, are gathering in the historic Knights Hall in The Hague today for the official ceremony marking a decade of... Read more »

• Zimbabwe: The River of Death Eats Zimbabwean Youth Alive

  Zimbabwean youth continue to leave their country for seemingly greener pastures in South Africa. Many of them illegally enter the neighbouring country, where they are threatened by... Read more »

November 13

• Liberia: Sirleaf Will Not Fire Her Sons [interview]

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, was in the Netherlands to receive an Honorary Doctorate Degree at Tilburg University on 9 November 2012. RNW's Africa Desk was on... Read more »

• Libya: Libyan Activists Welcome Posting of YouTube Rape Video

  You might not expect women's groups to welcome the posting of a video depicting a rape on You Tube - but Libyan feminists did just that last week. Read more »

November 12

• Africa: Thumbs Up Africa Blog 6 - Inshallah

  Inshallah is what they say here, meaning if Allah wills it, or it is in God's hands. After travelling almost a thousand kilometres from Cairo to Aswan, it apparently wasn't God's... Read more »

• Nigeria: Bringing Swaggerlicious Back to the Bike in Lagos

  As Nigeria's economic nerve centre battles to work out a manageable transport system for its exploding population, Park and Ride tests how bicycles can help turn Lagos into a green... Read more »

November 11

• Kenya: 28-Year-Old Woman Aspires to Presidency

  Barack Obama's re-election gave some Kenyans this week a reason to celebrate, seeing the US president whose father was Kenyan as one of their own. But as Obamamania quiets down,... Read more »