President Hakainde Hichilema won a second term decisively, but a fatal raid, a dead former minister and a looming court fight have turned a low-profile vote into one of the region's most closely watched political stories.
Regulators cleared the tomato farms blamed for 16 elephant deaths, and a new state audit shows why Kenya's pesticide oversight cannot yet answer the question that matters.
After 44 years in power, Biya has presided over a weak economy, corruption at the top of government, and the dismantling of nearly every institution meant to hold him accountable. His latest absence is testing what remains.
Six claims that drive much of South Africa's anti-migrant sentiment. The evidence complicates more than it confirms, and the courts have now weighed in.
Seven citizens across the political divide weigh in on the former deputy president's State of the Nation style assessment of Ruto's record, from praise for his boldness to alarm over unproven claims tied to Raila Odinga's death.
He echoes Operation Dudula and March and March grievances, calls immigrants "guests" who must behave without saying how, and lets them absorb blame for South African government's own failures in what the UN already calls xenophobia.
Despite an unreliable government, Nigerians never wait for permission wherever they land. The result: a people who make a global impact in every sector they enter.
A documented record of non-enforcement, from South Africa's Afrophobia crisis to Rwanda's proxy war in Congo to Cameroon's entrenched presidency, raises the question of whether a continental body built to hold leaders accountable can ever hold its own members accountable.
From Ethiopia's passport to Nigeria's Mandela Tax, Africa gave everything to free South Africa. Decades later, South Africa is deporting the grandchildren of those who stood with them against apartheid.
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