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How renewable energy in South Africa is quietly stealing a march on coal
Solar, biomass and wind energy systems are popping up all over the country and feeding clean energy into the strained electrical grid The...


Sex workers in Zimbabwe: what drove us to accept mobile payments
‘At least, if you’re hunted by the cops, there’s no proof of transaction in hard currency,’ say sex workers using Econet’s mobile money...


Solar Impulse 2 to make unscheduled stopover in Japan
A solar-powered plane attempting to make an unprecedented flight across the Pacific is being forced to make an unscheduled stop in Japan...


Black Americans killed by police twice as likely to be unarmed as white people
Black Americans are more than twice as likely to be unarmed when killed during encounters with police as white people, according to a...


Ivory Coast to push forward with infrastructure spending
Ivory Coast plans to steam ahead with a post-war strategy of fostering economic growth through heavy infrastructure investments, the...


Ivory Coast cotton output rises 11 percent in 2014/15
Ivory Coast cotton output rose 11 percent to a record 450,000 tonnes in the 2014/2015 tonnes compared with the previous season on the...


Gov’t in GH¢1.3bn pension debt
Government has defaulted in the payment of workers contribution to the Tier 2 pension scheme, to the tune of GH¢1billion -- plunging the...


Ghanaian doctors serve July 1 strike notice
The Ghana Medical Association has begun beating war drums over their conditions of service. The leadership of the GMA said if by June 30...


NYU confronts stereotypes with exhibition of racially charged art
When the late British writer, art connoisseur and friend of the Queen, Sir Harold Acton, bequeathed his family’s Italian villa to New...


Tutu blasts govt for 'humiliating' S Africa
Archbishop Desmond Tutu todayblasted the South African government for humiliating thecountry by allowing the president to get away with...
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