Africa

Aid: Humanity or Wildlife? »

"Africa has another story to tell. The wildlife on this continent has seen more changes in the last 50 years than it has in the last 2 million. Today’s animals are facing unprecedented challenges while around them Africa’s human population ...

Tue 19 Feb 2013 by Lydia Willgress | Read more »

Africa’s heavyweights will not be missed »

There has been concern in some quarters in the build-up to the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations regarding the potential dearth of top-class football on show. The tournament, hosted jointly by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, kicks off on Saturday 21 January wit...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Sean Gibson | Read more »

Vulture funds - preying on the wastelands? »

Capitalism is under scrutiny as the recent Newsnight and Guardian investigation into the practices of ‘vulture’ companies has highlighted the moral bankruptcy of the system. The facts appearing from the investigation show sections of the f...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Dominic Sowa | Read more »

Malaria on the rise in the UK »

New figures released by the Health Protection Agency have revealed that the number of malaria infections among UK residents has increased by 30 per cent over the last two years. The figures, released on 25 April to mark World Malaria Day, show that th...

Wed 04 May 2011 by Leighton Craig | Read more »

Deadly and Brutal: Film Posters from Ghana »

Wed 20 Apr 2011 by Matthew Macaulay | Read more »

Life and death? It's Africa »

Often the stories we hear about Africa are quite negative, because news is negative wherever it is in the world. The problem is that people see Africa as one whole rather than 53 separate countries. The World Cup was a great news story coming out of Af...

Thu 16 Sep 2010 | Read more »

South Africa: No time for hesitation »

Fourteen years after the advent of democracy, there has been a bloodless coup in South Africa with the transfer of presidential power from Thabo Mbeki to Kgalema Motlanthe. Like all coups, it served the narrow self-interest of a group of power-hungry p...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Helen Zille | Read more »

Malaria breakthrough by Edinburgh researchers »

Collaborative research led by scientists from the University of Edinburgh has sparked hope for a new avenue in the treatment of Africa’s biggest killer: malaria.New research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 by Cameron Robinson | Read more »