Does the mafia really control Swaziland’s parastatal telecommunications company? Probably not, but such finger-pointing is distracting when the public needs faster and cheaper Internet services.

29 stories from Algeria, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

According to 2010 estimates, Equatorial Guinea generates a GDP of nearly $37,000 per capita – a sum 74 times greater than that found in Zimbabwe. Therefore, why does Equatorial Guinea, a nation with one of the highest GDP’s per capita in the world (and the highest in Africa) have some of the worst levels of Internet connectivity?

Guinea’s legislative elections are to be held on 11/27/2011. How can Nigeria’s experience with crowdsourcing apply to Guinea, a nation where social media is less prominent and fact often gets tangled with fiction?

27 fresh articles/posts/stories from Botswana, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Reunion, Senegal, Seychelles, SL, SA, Swaziland, Uganda, Zim

25 fresh articles/posts/stories on Cameroon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, SA, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe and more