Malawi

In September, there were high hopes in some parts of Swaziland’s civil society and democratic movement that a dialogue with the county’s absolute monarch King Mswati III was on the table. Not least because of […]

For far too long, women and girls in Africa have faced discrimination and inequalities in the workforce which have not only hurt them, but their families, communities and their countries as a whole. As we […]

If the little that I have read, via news reports, regarding the declaration of the recent Malawian general election as “null and void” by President Joyce Banda is anything to go by, then, really, one […]

The rainy season, always welcome in often dry southern Africa, has brought with it favourable breeding conditions for army worms and red locusts. The crop-eating pests are contributing to the woes of subsistence farmers already […]

No one needs fear anything for saying that South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma, is a very good example of a very bad African leader in contemporary times. He is self-acquisitive and mindlessly profligate. Talk about […]

Heute unterzeichnen in Berlin der ehemalige US-Präsident Bill Clinton, Gründer der Clinton-Stiftung, und Bundesentwicklungsminister Dirk Niebel eine Kooperationsvereinbarung. Im Fokus der künftigen Zusammenarbeit steht Afrika, das sich politisch, wirtschaftlich und gesellschaftlich rasant wandelt. Schwerpunkte der […]