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 youn…
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 developers…
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 internati…
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 barr…
Dar es Salaam has inaugurated the third and final phase of its Bus Rapid Transit system, completing a network that now carries over one million passengers daily and has reduced average cross-city jour…
Senegal's traditional wrestling, Lutte sénégalaise, has transcended its roots as a village spectacle to become a professionally organised, nationally televised, and increasingly internationally recogn…
Morocco has achieved a milestone in health sovereignty: pharmaceutical self-sufficiency, producing over 70 percent of its domestic medicine needs and establishing an export-oriented pharmaceutical ind…
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 schoo…
Ethiopia's telecommunications liberalisation — long delayed but finally executed — has unleashed a connectivity revolution, with mobile penetration, internet access, and digital financial services exp…
Egypt's New Administrative Capital has crossed from construction project to functioning city, with government ministries, embassies, and the first 50,000 residents now occupying what is becoming Afric…
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 much…
Cape Town's remarkable recovery from the brink of 'Day Zero' — the threatened shutoff of all public water supply — has been transformed from a cautionary tale into an inspiring case study in urban res…