After a decade of disappointing progress to cut maternal and child deaths, African leaders this week resolved to try again. Concluding the African Union Summit in Kampala on Tuesday, heads of state adopted new resolutions and declared that maternal and...

Campaign group Global Witness is taking the British government to court for allegedly failing to report companies trading Congolese “conflict minerals”. The organisation said on Monday that British companies have been trading in minerals...

Donors will suspend aid to Uganda to protest at escalating corruption unless the government undertakes urgent measures to curb the vice, the donors warned government in a letter. Uganda’s economy has maintained a powerful growth momentum over the...

Britain and Canada protested yesterday over a proposed law that would result in gays in Uganda being imprisoned for life or even executed. Gordon Brown followed Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, in telling Uganda that the legislation was...

The bizarre killings of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania has evoked deep fear and anxiety in the two countries, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says. In a report, Through Albino Eyes, IFRC says nearly 300 children...

Sierra Leone has launched an initiative to enlist boys as young as 10 as crime-fighting volunteers in Freetown. Police chief Chris Charley said the capital, which is blighted by rampant criminality, would be divided into 860 zones with 10 youth...

Rape and defilement have been documented as the most common violations against women in the East Africa and Great Lakes Region, a scenario that women activists fear could retard development in the region. A review of the types of sexual and...

Three different candidates say they gained the most votes in Sunday’s election to choose a successor to Gabon’s long-time leader Omar Bongo. Mr Bongo’s son, Ali Ben Bongo, veteran opposition leader Pierre Mamboundou and former...

Once, Samson Ndangana earned a decent salary as a teacher. He could afford to pay Z$600,000 for a nice suburban house. He enjoyed a typical middle class lifestyle. His children were enrolled in decent schools. He drove them to school in his own car....