South Africa: Mnangagwa a Sellout Who Won't Finish His Term - Malema

South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has lashed out at Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa for his plans to pay compensation to white farmers who… Read more »

Africa: Could South Africa Become a 'Fragile State'?

State failure has become a 21st century analytical preoccupation. It is traditionally defined by the inability of key state institutions to deliver public goods to their citizens… Read more »

Zimbabwe: The Struggle to End HIV Epidemic in Rural Mwenezi

On the steep hills and mountains of Mwenezi - a rural district situated in southern Zimbabwe - is where you find hundreds of villagers living with some of the highest rates of HIV… Read more »

South Africa: Be Prepared to Die When Fighting Injustice - Xolobeni Leader Nonhle Mbuthuma

As the world commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, women activists around the world were celebrated for being at the forefront of the… Read more »

Africa: Land Tweet - Obama's Ambassador to South Africa Hits Out at Trump, Senators React

President Barack Obama's ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspard, has attacked President Donald Trump's claim that the country's farmers are being killed on a "large scale". Read more »

South Africa: Land Expropriation - What Does South Africa Have to Say?

As the first of 36 public hearings regarding land expropriation without compensation gets under way, South African citizens have taken to Twitter for further discussion on the… Read more »

South Africa: Ramaphosa Outlines Plans for Radical Change - With Assurances

The African National Congress's new leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, sketched out a path for the party's future on Saturday which carefully balanced demands for radical change to address… Read more »

Africa: Rural E-Commerce Model Pitched for Africa

The operator of an e-commerce program which reaches deep into rural China believes that its business model could help Africans in areas far from cities. Read more »

Africa: Good Governance and Democracy Make for Better Land Use - Expert

On the sidelines of the recent meeting on climate science in Paris, AllAfrica spoke with Ephraim Nkonya, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research… Read more »

Africa: African Scientists Promote Solutions to Mitigate Climate Change

Leading African experts at the scientific conference in Paris which is preparing for the next round of global climate change talks in December have been discussing their work with… Read more »

Liberia: The Plantation Blues

Fiercely contested during different stages of Liberia's civil war, the western region of Grand Cape Mount County now plays host to a very different kind of confrontation. Read more »

Liberia: The Cocoa Comeback

"That is still a tall order," Michael Titoe says with a chuckle as he contemplates Liberia launching its own brand name chocolate. A fellow of the World Cocoa Foundation and… Read more »

Kenya: New Seeds Boost Yields for Drought-Hit Farmers

For a couple that has weathered the dual tests of early retirement and repeated crop failures, it might have seemed an impossible dream to former primary-school teacher Philip… Read more »

Kenya: Livestock Insurance - A Chance to Outsmart Drought?

The first thing that hits a visitor to Ginda village in northern Kenya is the smell. Read more »

Africa: Freedom Songs Sung to a Climate Change Tune

"This land belongs to women, they will never tire!" Chanted in Zulu, this South African freedom song from the anti-apartheid struggle was reworked into a protest song against… Read more »

Africa: Surfing the Radio Waves for Sustainable Agriculture

While the use of mobile phones is rapidly surging across Africa, access gaps persist between urban and rural users. But a new generation of social entrepreneurs is remedying this… Read more »

Africa: 'To Eradicate Hunger, Treat Small Farms as Business'

Feeding the world’s hungry is the challenge of our times, says Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, an energetic advocate for poor people, particularly poor, rural women. Nwanze is president… Read more »

Botswana: Court Bars Community's Access to Water

A Botswana judge has prohibited the Basarwa people of the Kalahari from re-equipping a borehole or drilling a new one in the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve - the latest incident in… Read more »

Kenya: The Great Rift

A most intriguing political development occasioned by the constitutional referendum is how former President Daniel Arap Moi and his onetime political protégé, William… Read more »

Eswatini: Environmentalist Seeks to Balance Interests of People, Wildlife

Award-winnning Swaziland Environmentalist and Public Attorney Thuli Makama has built a reputation of standing up for the rights of civil society and local communities. Read more »

Africa: Indigenous Rights Ruling Could Have Big Impact on Land Disputes

In 1973, Kenya forced the Endorois people off their ancestral land in the heart of the Great Rift Valley to create a wildlife reserve, plunging a community of traditional… Read more »

Kenya: Reconstructing Food Security in Africa

Kenya 's Rift Valley province is famed for large-scale food production alongside images of dying animals and hungry people. Read more »

South Africa: Land Reform Moves Slowly in Post-Apartheid Era

Land reform has always been a popular part of political rhetoric for a democratic South Africa, but agrarian transformation has not been realized in the post-apartheid era. The… Read more »

Africa: FAO Launches Key Land Initiatives

People's rights to work the land – an indispensable pre-condition for food security in Africa – are the subject of two key initiatives by international agencies working… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Accuses Zanu-PF of Law-Breaking, Hate, Land Invasions

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has accused President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party of breaking the law, spreading "the language of hate," invading productive farms,… Read more »