Africa: AllAfrica's Top News Stories of 2015

A collage of images that feature the subjects of some of AllAfrica's top stories in 2015, including 10-year-old prodigy Esther Okade (top left), Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe (bottom right) and Nigerian billionaire Folorunsho Alakija (bottom right).
22 December 2015
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1. This year U.S. President Barack Obama visited Kenya, the land where his father was born. His arrival in Nairobi was preceded by speculation that he would dodge the issue of homosexuality - which is illegal in Kenya - so as not to offend his hosts, especially after requests for the American leader to avoid statements in support of gay rights. One such organisation reportedly asked permission for a march to show the president "the differences between a man and a woman". The protest was eventually called off.

2. The aftermath of the kidnapping of more than 200 girls from Chibok in Nigeria on the night of April 14, 2014, continues, with the Nigerian army's discovery and rescue of young women - who've not been proven to be the missing Chibok girls - in the Sambisa Forest, an area considered a stronghold for Boko Haram. Of the girls rescued in Borno State, many were described as "visibly pregnant".

3. Roel van der Veen wrote for Addis Standard: So the thing is that as a country you can indeed "leave" a poor region, but that at some point your example will be followed by others, who will try to leave too - with a headline that drew quite a bit of interest from allAfrica readers - Ethiopia Should Leave Africa.

4. Outrage in Tanzania Elite As Magufuli Intensifies Rwandanisation

5. Zanele Moyo Bled to Death, Photo Shows, Moyo's Daughter Struggled With Depression - Report and Moyo Breaks Down at Daughter's Funeral

6. 10-Year-Old Nigerian in UK Varsity

7. Family Killed in Stellenbosch

8. Former Kenyan Prime Minister's Son Found Dead

9. Sex Workers Switch to Mobile Payment Systems

10. Zuma, Khama Corner Mugabe

11. Malawi Named As Sixth Best English Speaking Country in Africa

12. Model Without Panties in Court, Charged With Public Indecency

13. Mugabe Ambushed and Humiliated in Nigeria

14. I Knew I Was Going to Be in Trouble, If APC Did Not Win - Amaechi

15. Malawian Prophet Predicts Mugabe's End

More Top Content of 2015

1. Zimbabwean Sex Workers Demand Mobile Payments

2. Python Dies After Prickly Meal

3. Zimbabwe: Malawian Prophet Predicts Mugabe's End

4. Zimbabwe's Mugabe Falls at Airport

5. Zimbabwe's Mugabe Struggles to Walk - Report

6. Kenya: 'Rapist' Baboons Targeting Women

7. New Ethiopia Airport to Be 'As Big As Heathrow'

8. South African Minister Killed in Car Crash

9. Nigeria's Alakija Unseats Oprah on Richest List

10. 10-Year-Old British-Nigerian Accepted at UK University

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