South Africa has established itself as Africa's space power, operating the continent's most sophisticated satellite programme and hosting world-class radio astronomy infrastructure that is attracti…
Ethiopia's evolving federal system is delivering greater regional autonomy in practice, with newly empowered regional states developing distinctive policy approaches to economic development, educat…
Africa has secured co-hosting rights for a future FIFA World Cup, a continental celebration decades in the making that will bring the world's most watched sporting event to the continent with the y…
Ghana's network of coding academies and technology training centres has become a continental reference point for digital skills development, producing a generation of engineers and software develop…
South Africa's white and black rhino populations are showing the strongest recovery in a generation, as a combination of enhanced anti-poaching operations, private conservancy expansion, and intern…
A digital education revolution is reshaping learning across the African continent, with satellite-delivered, mobile-based, and AI-assisted distance learning platforms breaking down the geographic b…
Senegal's traditional wrestling, Lutte sénégalaise, has transcended its roots as a village spectacle to become a professionally organised, nationally televised, and increasingly internationally rec…
South Africa's National Assembly has passed a sweeping electoral reform bill that for the first time allows independent candidates to contest seats in the National Assembly, ending a decades-long s…
Ethiopia's telecommunications liberalisation — long delayed but finally executed — has unleashed a connectivity revolution, with mobile penetration, internet access, and digital financial services …
Ethiopia's Health Extension Programme, deploying 42,000 female community health workers to reach the most remote rural communities, has achieved healthcare improvements that rival the outcomes of m…
Nigeria has become the NBA's most important international talent market, producing a generation of players who are reshaping the league and inspiring millions of African young people to pick up a b…
Africa has celebrated a public health milestone of historic proportions: the continent-wide rollout of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, which is dramatically reducing deaths from a disease that ha…