Ethiopia to release political prisoners, says prime minister

The PM's announcement could signal the end of "bloody repression", a major rights group says.

Pienaar released by South African champions

Former Everton midfielder Steven Pienaar is released by South African champions Bidvest Wits after just six months at the club

Zambia foreign minister Harry Kalaba resigns over ‘greed’

Some suggest Harry Kalaba's resignation is an attempt to put pressure on President Edgar Lungu.

Not just mobile money

Trends include delivery drones, pay-as-you-go off-grid power, and using blockchain to prevent land disputes.

School experiment

Is Liberia's controversial school experiment raising standards?

Royal Wharf tops 1000

With input from a wide range of architects Royal Wharf is a new neighbourhood in London’s docklands housing approximately 10,000 residents

Seeing through the haze

Cloud Tech hope to have found a way of getting on top of air pollution in India

Cambridge’s tech hub hots up

The Bradfield Centre is the latest addition to Cambridge in the UK’s expanding technology cluster

Starved. Beaten. Enslaved.

Migrants describe being intercepted on the Mediterranean Sea and imprisoned in Libya.

Israel: African migrants told to leave or face imprisonment

The UN refugee agency says the plan to deport thousands violates international and Israeli laws.