Ugandan academic, writer and feminist activist Stella Nyanzi has won the Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression 2020. Ms Nyanzi is a controversial academic, who campaigns on a variety of issues, from sanitary pads for schoolgirls to gay rights. In a conservative society, where homosexual acts are outlawed,
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The secretive world of naval underwater surveys rarely breaks the surface. Now recent events are briefly shining a light into the darkness. In the Adriatic a Croatian fishing vessel caught one of the U.S. Navy’s undersea sensor systems last week. That mysterious object has largely been explained. Meanwhile, China has
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The billionaire daughter of Angola's ex-president, Isabel dos Santos (pictured), has said she would consider running for president in the next election in 2022. That's despite an asset freeze and accusations of diverting more than a billion dollars of state money, which she denies. In an interview with the Portuguese
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Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have reached an initial agreement on the filling and operation of a mega dam being built on the River Nile. A joint statement by the three countries, along with the US and the World Bank says negotiators had agreed to fill the reservoir of the Grand
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Sudan's army has quelled a rebellion by former elite troops loyal to ousted leader Omar al-Bashir. Shooting broke out on Tuesday in the capital Khartoum and the city's airport was briefly closed amid the clashes. The violence was sparked by a row over severance pay for officers in a much-feared
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Akon (pictured) has been given a green light to build his own city in Senegal. The city will be known as Akon City. The singer and entrepreneur said in a tweet that he had finalised the agreement for the construction of the new city. "Looking forward to hosting you there
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The Russian government is to resign, hours after President Vladimir Putin proposed constitutional changes that could prolong his stay in power, BBC reports. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the president's proposals would significantly change Russia's balance of power. Mr Putin has asked him to become deputy head of the National
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The former chairman of one of China’s bad banks has confessed to taking millions of yuan in bribes which he kept in metal cabinets in a Beijing apartment he nicknamed “the supermarket.” Lai Xiaomin (pictured), former head of China Huarong Asset Management Co., has been charged with taking bribes, corruption
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The Board of Directors of African Development Bank Group has approved an €8 million (Shs32.7bn) grant drawn from the European Union’s Africa Investment Platform (EU-AIP) to support the preparation of the Ruzizi IV Hydropower Project. The plant will be situated on the Ruzizi River between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic
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China’s foreign minister has called for EU and US sanctions against Zimbabwe to be removed, saying they have no basis under international law. Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the comment on his visit to Zimbabwe. "The unilateral sanctions imposed by some countries and organisations on Zimbabwe have no basis in
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