In Zimbabwe’s city, Mutare, residents are shunning regular commuter operators and using other forms of transport – like open lorries – saying buses are simply too expensive. Trucks usually travel to the city center daily to hire laborers. Now, however, drivers say their business has picked up dramatically since they began ferrying residents to and [...]

So, here we are, 48 years after Independence, no sustainable national ideology has been developed and no clear Nigerian brand has emerged except a grab-grab political and economic culture, which only nurtures political and financial corruption. These twin national vice has worsened the state of our infrastructure, education, healthcare, security, and overall quality of life. And it has dented our international image.

A Sudanese refugee offers a message of hope as he tells Americans about his turbulent childhood in his war-torn homeland. The 27-year-old was one of thousands of so-called “lost boys” of Sudan who have settled in the United States.
Sudan in the 1980s was embroiled in a civil war fueled by religious and racial divisions, and [...]

If everything goes as planned, industrial and domestic users of electricity in Aba, Abia State are in for the best of times as Geometric Power Limited is set to ignite the commercial hub of eastern Nigeria with a 24-hour electricity supply.
The Federal Government had granted Geometric Power the concession to build an 118megawatts Independent Power [...]

The UN refugee agency, with the help of American actor-director Ben Affleck and British rock legend Sir Mick Jagger, on Wednesday launched a major new campaign to raise US$23 million to help tens of thousands of displaced Congolese civilians.

As African communities develop and modernize, proponents of traditional medicine are evolving new faces of the practice to keep up. Naomi Seck reports from a holistic healing center in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, where traditional healing practices are infused into luxurious treatments like pedicures and massage.
Wind chimes twinkle as a breeze passes through the sculpted garden [...]

The new financial commitment would help African countries over the next three years to expand their malaria prevention, care, and treatment programs and to sharply reduce the number of malaria-related deaths and illness that afflict their communities each year.

If there one thing synonymous with Lagos, Nigeria’s mega city, that will be its messy and nerve-recking traffic jams. But this may be a thing of the past:
“The Lagos state government in Nigeria has approved plans to build the first light rail system in West Africa. Plans call for seven double-track lines across the state [...]

The 22-member Electoral Reform Committee inaugurated by Nigerian President Yar’Adua on August 2007 released its report with a recommendation that independent candidates be allowed to contest in future elections, and that more independence be given the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Highlights:
•Independent candidacy recommended;
•No carpet-crossing under any circumstances;
•Biased media reporting attracts N1,000,000.00;
•Additional 108 seats for House [...]

Nigeria’s Supreme Court will on Friday deliver a final judgment on legal challenges to President Umaru Yar’Adua’s April 2007 election victory, opposition lawyers said on Wednesday.
The legal wrangling over the election has undermined Yar’Adua’s first 18 months in office, preventing him from exercising his full authority, contributing to a stagnation in government decision-making and unnerving [...]