The private sector though it's foundation chair, Gideon Badagawa has lauded the government for it's effort to ratify the Comesa Free Trade Area saying it will open up huge markets ... Read more »

Of the eight Millennium Development Goals, the least progress has been made on ensuring adequate access to sanitation for the 15 percent of the world's population still defecating ... Read more »

Chronic malnutrition affects as much as two-thirds of inmates in some prisons and is the most common cause of deaths amid overcrowding and poor funding. Read more »

The government must rein in its security forces and launch a probe into allegations of civilian killings over cattle theft in the south of the country, says Amnesty International. Read more »

In the wake of political instability following the 2009 coup, not only have average annual incomes been battered, but women are being beaten too - as families have to make do with ... Read more »

While the quality of governance on the continent has improved, key regional and strategic players have slipped in the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, and the Mo Ibrahim ... Read more »

The extinction risk faced by Madagascar's palms reflects the decline in forest cover and threatens not only the country's remarkable wildlife but the people too, experts say. Read more »

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation reports on governance rankings for Southern Africa. Read more »

Surveys in South Africa's major cities show a considerably higher HIV prevalence rate among sex workers than among the general population, making it imperative that South Africans ... Read more »

Four chiefs from the conflict-ridden Tana River area have been fired and arraigned in court amid allegations that they had prior knowledge of an inter-ethnic attack that left at ... Read more »