Hung out to dry: Botswana’s cattle sector grapples with drought
Like many in Botswana, cattle rearing for Boyce Sebonego, is a family affair.
“My dad, my mother - they loved farming, they loved anything to...
Third ‘smart jacket’ prototype that diagnoses pneumonia set to debut in...
by Anastacia Waweru
24-year-old Brian Turyabagye, co-inventor of a biomedical smart jacket is hoping to soon become a leading techpreneur in East Africa and the...
The challenge of having an intersex child
Eight years ago, Peter Maingi and his wife walked into a hospital expecting their second child. They had been told from the scans that it...
Meet Joyce Muramba, Kenya’s mangrove mama
Along the coast of Watamu, north of Mombasa, a narrow wooden boardwalk meanders through a dense forest of mangrove trees. Rising from the water,...
Reporters Diary: Villagers learn new technique to fight climate change
Beyond the ‘home of heroes’ that is Eldoret Town in South-Eastern Kenya lies Elgeyo-Marakwet County close to 100 kilometres away.
It is characterized by rolling...
Zimbabweans say economy is worse than ever
Dadirai Tsvakai and her family have taken to combining dinner and breakfast - a meal they now eat just after midnight if they are...
Reporters Diary: Fighting the jigger parasite
In the Western part of Kenya, in Bungoma county lies Siritanyi village.
It is in this area that we meet an aged, frail-looking Mama Taphrosa...
South Africa: What’s in store for the upcoming elections?
It has been twenty-five years since Nelson Mandela - the icon of South Africa’s liberation movement - cast his ballot in the country’s first...
The Flying Dodo: insights from a Beer Hunter
Any beer drinker will tell you that the first thing that gets them is the sweat on the bottle. Moving past that, the act...
Khadjou Sambe’s Olympic dream inspires Senegal’s next wave of female surfers
The setting sun casts a gold light over the water as Khadjou Sambe and her student stare into the horizon, waiting patiently for the...