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South Africa has the world’s most progressive tax system, according to a new report. South Africa is also, by another measure, the world’s most unequal country — making [read more…]

In October, Innocent Mbarushimana was caught stealing a few bananas in the village of Kabeza in western Rwanda. Two months before that, an improverished farmer [read more…]

Shares bought using bank havens. A helicopter deal. The Geneva prosecutor has questions. The Kodieran gold deposit in Mali never produced much gold beyond the [read more…]

Senegal is trying to involve the diaspora to curb emigration Like many young Senegalese, Mamadou Diop dreamed of Europe. ‘We knew France from a distance,’ [read more…]

You probably don’t know much about Rwanda. Gorillas. Genocide. Don Cheadle. Maybe you’ve heard of Paul Kagame, the president. Maybe you’ve come across the phrase [read more…]

Women bring case against Shell in the Netherlands seeking damages and public apology for state executions carried out by military court in 1995 The widows [read more…]

He navigated a tricky path with Apartheid-era South Africa, Botswana’s major economic partner Ketumile Masire was a cattle herder turned statesman who, as President of [read more…]

In Kigali, at the World Health Organisation’s first ever Africa Health Forum, delegates have given themselves one not-so-simple task: to provide universal health care to [read more…]

Stiegler Gorge dam on the Selous park, a world heritage site listed as ‘in danger’, will cause irreversible damage, say conservationists Plans to build a [read more…]

“The idea is to show people that climate change affects every one of us – but also to explain how they can do something about [read more…]