Voters across the continent will be heading to the ballot box this coming year to choose their leaders in presidential, parliamentary and local elections starting with the Comoros in January and ending with Ghana in December. Comorians will be electing a new 33-member national assembly following ...
South Africa rsquo;s Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula, remembers the day she walked into a conference of defence ministers, confident and ready for deliberations, and realized that her counterparts, mostly men, thought she was just an aide to a defence mi ...
BBC Africa Eye: Saving Jesus The latest investigation from BBC Africa Eye will be aired on TV this evening ndash; a clip can be seen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-47002642/how-addict-jesus-survived-south-africa-s-drug-epidemic How addict Jesus survived Sou ...
This new series features four profile pieces on rising stars of African heritage, talking success and identity. You can watch the first two here - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLajyiGz4JeyPh U4q aEg6NJH6-ID9us5 . With two more coming up in the next two Fridays on BBC News Africa online . ...
Phumzile Van Damme, one of the youngest members of parliament in South Africa, is also the shadow minister for communications. She grew up in a family of strong women, and her gift for leadership was already apparent when she was a child. In the fifth grade, she called a student strike because the t ...
The World cup has begun And five African nations will be playing in the tournament. As the excitement builds for the competition, BBC News Africa is giving the audience the chance to be the manager of their own team, try it out here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-44386097 An interactiv ...
Recent reports that Cape Town, a popular tourist destination in South Africa, will soon run out of water due to a prolonged drought hardly seem to be slowing down the country rsquo;s burgeoning tourism industry. This despite warnings by water resources management experts that soon, Cape Town ...
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