At least 16 African countries will hold elections in the remaining months of 2024. But voters who go online for political news are risking exposure to disinformation and misinformation. That's were a new digital ethics organization comes in to help. Zaheer Cassim has this story from Johannesburg.
In Borno state, the heartland of an Islamist insurgency, suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters used an improvised explosive device (IED) to blow up a vehicle carrying the Civilian Joint Tast Force (CJTF) team
The country is dismissing a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report about the Burkinabe army's alleged execution of 223 people there
With more than 60% of the world’s uncultivated land, Africa should be able to feed itself, some experts say
Critics say reform will extend one family’s hold on the small West African nation
But celebrations are set against growing discontent
It kills or sickens millions annually
Jihadis in Nigeria are increasingly resorting to planting mines on highways to target military and civilian convoys after they were pushed back from territory they once controlled
The hostel once housed college students whose parents died in the 1994 genocide.
HPV causes an estimated 90% of cervical cancers in women
At least 43 people, among them women and children, reportedly have been killed in El Fasher since April 14, when Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began a push to gain control of the city
A company called Hello Tractor, supported by non-profit Heifer International, is enabling poor, smallholding farmers to rent or buy mechanized farm equipment that is helping them increase their productivity and profits. Mohammed Yusuf reports
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