Since independence in 1964, successive Zambian governments have grappled with rampant poverty and unemployment in a country that boasts a vast array of natural resources. Countless conferences on...
According to Business Day, former Madagascan president Marc Ravalomanana has approached the South African Constitutional Court to appeal restrictions imposed on his movements as a result of an...
Can you imagine spending three months – or even three years – in detention for being a ‘rogue and vagabond’? While this will sound archaic to most people, it is not uncommon for people in Zambia to find...
Cleopatra Tembo is 26. She lives in Zambia’s Matero Township. And she is routinely beaten by her husband. Cleopatra says she is hit for no apparent reason. Or rather she is beaten for doing things like...
I was in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo last week when the M23 militia entered Goma. Since then, there have been reports of women and children being abducted by the rebels, a practice...
More than half of the children in southern Africa who enrol in grade one don’t make it to secondary school. Most of them are girls. Many drop out before they even complete primary school and some do not...
Four years after the signing of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) facilitated by SADC in Zimbabwe, the outcome of the process remains fiercely contested and in the balance. The Agreement, which set out...
The capture of Goma by M23 rebel forces is the latest demonstration of the ineffectiveness of the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its army (the FARDC). Whatever the political...
As the rights revolution unfolded in Africa over the past two decades, one area in particular lagged behind: the right to information. Just five years ago, only four African countries - South Africa,...
