“This is the season for hunting mice”, declared an officer  of the Sudanese army in a video  he filmed of himself walking through a...

Across the third week of February 2025, torrential rain  showered over much of Botswana, a country in southern Africa roughly the same...

One small 2-litre canister per person, one scoop of garri (a flour made of cassava root), sardines, biscuits, paracetamol, quinine,...

Open-pit mining is the most common way to extract resources  around the world. Mineral deposits, which lie on the earth’s surface, are...

Faustin-Archange Touadéra once said on X , formerly Twitter: “Mathematics is the #language of the Universe. #Bitcoin is universal money.”...

Sodade  (also Saudade ) is a word which evokes feelings of melancholy, nostalgia, and a longing for something once known but since...

She describes herself as “more on the Ajebutter side”  (to be rich/sheltered in Nigerian slang), and there is a reserved shyness to her...

“I remember… The hills faded away. The road went up in difficult bends to climb a high mountain range. At the highest pass the wind...

In an interview  at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar told CNBC Africa of Nigeria’s long history...

Shots echoed from within the presidential palace shortly before 9pm  of the 8th of January 2025, in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad....

In a short GIF shared on X by @HotepSun on January 11th, 2025, an AI generated President William Ruto is laying down on the sand, his...

The rift valley extends large plateaus of volcanic rock across Ethiopia and East Africa all the way to the Red Sea. Some of Africa’s most...

The eye of a tropical cyclone is eerily calm. While winds that can launch trees, cars, and even homes into the airs whirl around it in a...

Roads become very muddy between September and November when the Congo’s second rainy season occurs. It is a time when transport and...

In past African elections, stories of dishonesty and abuse have often been met with anger and revolt. The events that unfolded following...

In a remote region in eastern Zimbabwe, the phrase Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo  (a country built by its own people) resonates with an...

Weddings in Sierra Leone can sometimes be a little confusing. Though they all celebrate the same union, guests attending are not always...

The question predates the concept in the history of human innovation: How to fix a problem? Around 4000BC, the invention of the wheel...

The plane shuddered disagreeably, as we left the Florida Keys behind us and headed across the sea to Cuba. As though, leaving US...

The recent attacks by Hamas on Israel have cast a dark shadow on the land that is holy by many. Israel’s response to the threat Hamas...

It was the novelist Rudyard Kipling who once said: “One cannot resist the lure of Africa.” During his time, this statement was certainly...

Huge crowds form in Abuja and Lagos, the scene of a massive street party, a festival. In whose honour? It is the ‘underdog’ candidate in...

Summer 2022 ended with the Royal period of mourning, the leaves turned brown, and the fog, rain and grey sky returned to London. The new...