South African elections: Why Nelson Mandela's...

Civil war has been raging in Sudan for two years. The conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has seen famine, destruction, and millions driven from their homes. Among them, the family and friends of our Africa correspondent Yous ...  Show more

Mark Carney's Liberals have won the Canadian election in a remarkable turnaround for the centre-left party.      The Liberal Party was well behind in the polls just months ago.  That's before Carney replaced Justin Trudeau as leader and US President Donald Trump soured relations ...  Show more

Africa Daily is on the road in Africa… first stop: South Africa. And Alan has arrived just in time for Mandela day – a celebration of the former president’s birth. When Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994, he was a hero in his own c ...  Show more

“The next building block should have been economic freedom. However, it is not his (Mandela’s) fault that it was not done. It is the fault of the generation that followed him” In today’s episode, Alan Kasujja sits down with Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, Ndileka Mandela. They di ...  Show more

In Sudafrica l’età media è 28 anni. E se per la prima volta in trent’anni l’esito delle elezioni di oggi è incerto c’entra molto il voto dei Millennials e della Generazione Z. Il partito al potere da quando nel paese non c’è più l’apartheid imposto dalla minoranza bianca, questa ...  Show more

“All the pursuits of capitalism in Africa have dismally failed” Exactly ten years ago, firebrand South African politician Julius Malema and his allies, established the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). It came after he was expelled from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) f ...  Show more