Analysis

Mediocre guerrilla leaders from the liberation war are destroying their new state South Sudan

There are many truths among the fearfull and angry South Sudanese

Optimism about a quick end to the conflict in South Sudan has evaporated and the old wounds are being re-opened

Conservative Islam comes to the Sahel with an unstoppable mission mentality and the way paved by money from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Pakistan.

"Hello mate," writes Matt in an email. "Welcome! You can come back to the Sleeping Camel. I've decided to stay open. Because the UN...

By Robert Ocholla Kenya’s greatest, most famous and popular expatriate, American President Barack Obama is on his first major African tour. Fortunately or unfortunately depending...

Proud ladies in expensive, colourful costumes ride on mopeds through the blue smoke hanging above the streets of the Malian capital Bamako. The perky...

After French and Malian military chased insurgents out of some of the main cities and towns they had conquered, the insurgents withdrew into the rice fields. Or they fused with the population in the surrounding villages. They have become invisible.

Caroline Mutoko is one of Kenya's most-famous and most-popular radio show hosts. Her highly critical column on the state of Kenyan media was refused by her newspaper. She published it on her Facebook page instead.