Featured stories about Sub-Saharan Africa
Stories about Sub-Saharan Africa
19 August 2017
Dear Tanzanian Cinephiles, Your Local Film Industry Needs Your Support
Tanzania is blessed with countless stories and young people who are craving to tell them. But they need their compatriots' support in order to succeed.
18 August 2017
A Kenyan Artist Designs Revolutionary ‘Kanga’ Celebrating Queer Love Around the World
"We need to open up a space to talk more about sex, and then artists like me want to open that up even more, to talk about queerness."
17 August 2017
Banning School-Going Mums Probably Won't Reduce Teen Pregnancy in Tanzania
President John Magufuli has chastised NGOs in Tanzania for encouraging teenage mothers to go back to school, stating that they were leading to a state of "moral decay" in Tanzania.
11 August 2017
A Young Engineer From Niger Is Taking on Industrial Air Pollution With His Invention
The T-shaped device captures the CO2-containing heavy substances from the fumes via an affinity-based chemical assay that binds CO2 particles.
Record-Breaking Action Movie ‘Wolf Warriors 2′ Takes Chinese Nationalism to a New Level
"This movie is horrible and unreasonable, a dream of idiotic patriotism."
9 August 2017
Jokes, Hashtags and Fake News: The Story of Social Media in Kenya's Closely Contested Election
This year’s campaign has made history as the most affected by the spread of fake news, a recent study showed.
6 August 2017
Guinean Filmmaker Paul Théa Speaks About His ‘Slave Route’ Project
"We are the first to propose a museum about slavery in Guinea, and to include the story of the slaves in South Carolina," says the filmmaker.
5 August 2017
Angolan Activists Create a Platform To Monitor Presidential Elections
"...All of us complain of malpractice and electoral irregularities, so it is necessary that everybody acts as election monitors and remains alert."
4 August 2017
What Once Was the Main Slave Port in the Americas Is Now a World Heritage Site
The recognition forces Brazil to acknowledge a period of its history that it still struggles to fully confront.
1 August 2017
Some in Kenya Point to a Recent Hailstorm as a Sign of Climate Change
While some tweets on the Nyahururu hailstorm were of excitement, there are those who did not see the joke, especially when it came to the implications of the incident.
29 July 2017
The African Community Reacts to Emmanuel Macron's Comments on Birth Rates in Africa
"Here is the question that we must ask: is it up to a non-African president to tell our women how many children they should have?"
28 July 2017
Videos Document Torture of Ruby Miners in Mozambique
In the images shared on social media, flagged by Facebook as sensitive, the seriousness of the torture the miners were subjected to in Namanhumbir’s ruby mines is obvious.
As Kenyans Go to the Polls on August 8, Here Are the Things to Watch
After avoiding a repeat of 2007 with peaceful elections in 2013, "the odds this year appear once again stacked against the smooth running of the polls."
27 July 2017
In Uganda's Parliament, the Arc of the Moral Universe Bends Toward Sexism
"The parliament that once roared with socially progressive legislators...is now a circus where one can refer to imaginary studies to deny the experiences of victims of violence, with little opposition."
Can Facebook Connect the Next Billion?
New research by Global Voices tech and digital rights experts in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan and the Philippines exposes the ups and downs of Facebook's "Free Basics" app.
Is Free Basics Really Bringing More Africans Online? A Case Study From Ghana
A group of Global Voices contributors tested the Free Basics app in six countries across the globe this spring. Here's what we found in Ghana.
24 July 2017
French Bank BNP Paribas Accused of Complicity in the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda
"France contributed to training and the international recognition of the government which organized the massacres (in Rwanda)".
Ghana's Social Media Scene Opens New Spaces for Public Debate
"Today, Ghanaians on social media are quick to make permutations of what number of public schools, hospitals, roads and sanitised water systems could have been constructed..."
21 July 2017
Luxury Lifestyle of the Congolese President's Entourage Attracts Attention of French Investigators
"Between 2008 and 2011, several tens of millions of euros from the Congolese public purse are thought to have passed through offshore companies."
19 July 2017
A Water Weed Is Damaging Ethiopia's Largest Lake and Putting Livelihoods at Risk
The lake has become a symbol of the dire state of Ethiopia’s natural resources at a time when Ethiopia’s fast-growing population needs more of everything.
About our Sub-Saharan Africa coverage
Omar Mohammed is the Sub-Saharan Africa editor. Email him story ideas or volunteer to write.
Endalk Chala is the Sub-Saharan Africa editor. Email him story ideas or volunteer to write.
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Joey Ayoub is the Arabic editor. Email him story ideas or volunteer to write.
