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The son of a British lord who died in custody of the Kenyan police, hours after being arrested for smoking cannabis, was killed by a blow to the head....
In a taxi somewhere on the streets of West London the cab driver turned to me and said "What continent has got six of the fastest growing economies in the world?" "Well it's Asia isn't it!" I replied firmly. And there an awkward silence ensued... If I've learnt one thing as an actress over the years it's that there is more than one way to tell a story and this is no truer than when talking about Africa.
Smart? Yes. Ingenious? Yes. Awesome? Most definitely. This photograph is doing the rounds on the Internet - we spotted it on TwentyTwoWords.com, wh...
While the West has been trying to develop the right platforms and technology for mobile payments to work, and technology providers and operators have been battling for mobile payment supremacy, Kenya has gone straight from a barter/gift/debt economy to digital transaction - leapfrogging over the last 100 years of the West's progress in monetary transactions.
As representatives of the World Health Organization Member States arrive in Geneva this week for the 65th World Health Assembly, I feel a cautious optimism about the future, and the future health of Africa. With two female heads of state in Africa - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia and Joyce Banda in Malawi - women's health and gender equality are no longer marginalised, they have become central to a nation's potential for development and prosperity. National level attention to women's health and opportunity has become the standard against which our collective progress is judged.
This is the Great Silent Tsunami that keeps happening year after year with some years, like this one, worse than others. But who's listening? Did you know that a severely malnourished child does not cry but instead dies in silence?
If there ever were a sure thing, is that life doesn't happen as you plan for it to. Exactly two months before my 13th birthday, I became a refugee. Life as an illegal is nothing I would wish upon my worst enemy.
There's nothing more surreal than bullet-holes in a village setting. In many ways, with its beaches and lush, green landscapes, Sierra Leone should be an ideal holiday destination. Unfortunately, the brutal civil war of 1991, which only ended 10 years ago, has taken its toll.
Women in the developing world are 21% less likely than men to own a mobile, leaving an estimated 300 million excluded from the social and economic opportunities that owning one might bring. Closing this "mobile gender gap" doesn't just make sense for women - it's also an opportunity believed to be worth a staggering $13 billion to network operators annually.
Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes after a five year trial. Taylor, 64, described by prosecutors as an "inte...
Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor will likely be imprisoned in the UK if international judges find him guilty of war crimes after a five year tria...
Twenty-first century Africa, however, has not found a place for capitalism in its societal values and rightly so. As doing that will be putting the cart before the horse.
A few years ago, malaria would have been a nurse's worst nightmare in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Outbreaks used to be common here. Now, as this year's rainy season begins, the health facility - which is supported by international medical charity Merlin - has only had two confirmed cases of malaria in the past week.
With a hunger crisis sweeping across the Sahel affecting eight African countries and putting the fragile existences of a million children in jeopardy now may seem a strange time to be talking about the remarkable progress for the world's poorest children that has been achieved over the past 20 years.
As the clouds gathered over the small village house in the Liberian bush early on Tuesday morning where John Humphrys was preparing to co-anchor the Today programme, little could he have known that a Twitter Storm was about to rain down on his head.
Here in Sudan's Nuba Mountains the war isn't nearly over. It's escalating as skirmishes between north and South Sudan become bigger battles. The war is widening and more people are dying - and one day we will ask whether we did enough to stop it.
Rumours that Robert Mugabe is "close to death" after being rushed to a hospital in Singapore have been denied by a Zimbabwean government official. ...
It is one of Africa's cruelest ironies that as the planting season begins, as it is now across much of the continent, so does the hunger season. The food stocks from the previous harvest are running low and it will be several months before the next harvest comes in. In this crisis, nearly one billion people go to bed hungry every night...
The British embassy in Mali has been closed as violence in the country threatens to spill out of control. Mali's under-fire military junta is comin...
Cut through a wattle forest, the dirt track to Lupembe does not afford the visitor from Europe an easy ride. From the nearest main road, it's a three-...
Most people think of malaria as a health issue, which it is, but it is also a key contributor to poverty in many areas, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Is the International Criminal Court a valid court of last resort or another example of the West flexing its muscles in Africa?
"Never prophesy, especially about the future." That nicely captures the perils of predictions - so nicely, indeed, that the saying or a version of it has been credited to numerous people, from the movie mogul Sam Goldwyn to baseball's Yogi Berra.
As investors, we have to be wise and smart. We have to be active listeners and observers and adjust our perception to develop a different approach.
The way many people think about the future of our civilisation reminds me of the joke in which somebody jumps from a skyscraper and, while passing the 10th floor, concludes that "up to now everything has gone fine...".
