In a recent discussion, experts highlighted the link between ending child marriage and advancing Africa's economic development. With millions of girls forced into early unions, the implications are…
Over 1,000 Kenyans have reportedly enlisted to fight in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, raising significant concerns about the socio-economic implications for the East African nation and the b…
A recent ruling in Cameroon has seen soldiers receive unprecedented prison sentences for the killing of 21 civilians in the Anglophone region, raising critical questions about governance, accountab…
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has claimed the top position in the first-ever edition of the QS World University Rankings for Sub-Saharan Africa, released in February 2026, cementing South Afric…
The Nairobi AI Forum 2026, convened on 9 and 10 February at a gathering that drew more than 500 participants from Africa, Europe, and the G7, has emerged as a defining moment for the continent's ar…
Senegal has completed a landmark constitutional reform process that devolves significant powers to regional and municipal authorities, fundamentally reshaping the relationship between the state and…
Ghana's government has announced a landmark policy that will eliminate tuition fees for students enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programmes at all public universities,…
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…
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…
Tanzania's national school feeding programme, one of Africa's largest and most rigorously evaluated, has demonstrated that nourishment and education are inseparable — with consistent, nutritious sc…
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…
Ghana's bilingual education programme, which uses Ghanaian mother-tongue languages as the primary medium of instruction for the first three years of schooling before transitioning to English, is de…