NIGERIA DECIDES: Digital media takes center role in run up to poll
Information dissemination is increasingly becoming more sensitive, especially regarding events such as elections. Nigeria is due to hold its presidential
Ethiopia embraces Chinese tech in first-ever digital technology-assisted national census
The Ethiopian Central Statistics Agency (CSA) on Wednesday said that preparations have been finalized to undertake Ethiopia’s first ever digital
South Africa’s Eskom bailout could reach 150 billion rand
A massive bailout for Eskom of R150bn over the next 10 years will be a key part of the plan
NIGERIA DECIDES: New leadership to deal with rise in minimum wage bill
Nigerians will go to the polls on Saturday to elect their president. Ahead of that vote, Nigerians have been raising
Senegal booming but will that be enough to keep Sall in office?
President Macky Sall is the strong favourite to win Senegal’s election on Sunday, boosted by a modernising first term that
Zimbabwe launches new currency measure
Zimbabwe, without its own currency for a decade, took steps to address its worsening economic crisis by allowing its surrogate
NIGERIA DECIDES: Nigerians urged to vote despite date-change disappointment
Nigeria’s main opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar ha surged the country’s citizens to come out in large numbers to vote
Ebola outbreak ‘under control’ in part of eastern DR Congo
An Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 500 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been brought under
Egypt tells poor families, ‘two children is enough’ in effort to reduce population growth
Nesma Ghanem is hoping for a fourth child even though her doctor says her body can’t handle a pregnancy at
16 killed in attack by suspected herdsmen in Nigeria
An official in the central Nigerian state of Benue says 16 people were killed in an attack apparently staged by