CNN Site Map for Section Africa (Galleries) for January - 2015
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- 2015-01-30Inspired by the desire to use energy more efficiently and to help save the environment, Rose Twine, pictured, conceived the "eco stove" with her brother in 2009. The Kampala-based startup hopes to offer a more eco-friendly cooking solution to ho
- 2015-01-29A worker at a UNICEF-supported Interim Care Center plays with 19-month-old Ebola survivor Tamba in Gueckedou, Forest Region, Guinea on January 11, 2015. Tamba's mother died of Ebola, then his father abandoned him for fear of catching the disease hims
- 2015-01-29The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, situated on the banks of the largest desert lake in the world, aims to provide 300MW of energy, equivalent to roughly 20% of the current capacity of Kenya's national grid.
- 2015-01-28Neyma is this generation's undisputed superstar of Marrabenta. She is considered "the Beyonce of Mozambique".
- 2015-01-26Tara Fela-Durotoye is the CEO of House of Tara International, Nigeria's homegrown cosmetics empire, and the founder of 14 schools that teach makeup as the key to business success.
- 2015-01-23By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, for CNN
From Hollywood ingenues to unshakeable social changemakers, CNN's African Voices takes a look back at some our incredible featured guests who have been innovating, raising and changing Africa and the diaspora over t
- 2015-01-23Adil Mustafa Hamdan, 21, is a student at the Soba Secondary Refugee School. He was one of 21 students selected to take a digital storytelling course through the UN Refugee Agency project. Like many of the students that graduated from the course, he aspire
- 2015-01-22With a new year comes new ambition and as the world envisions their hopes for the year ahead, CNN's African Start-Up went back to nine of the entrepreneurs it profiled in 2014 to discover their plans for greater success in 2015.
- 2015-01-22Mauritius attracts nearly one million visitors yearly, wooing many with its pristine beaches and cobalt blue seas.
- 2015-01-21The Africa2Moon Mission aims to send a probe to the lunar surface within a decade. Jonathan Weltman (pictured), chief executive of the Foundation for Space Development South Africa, says the project will help raise the profile of science across the contin
- 2015-01-20Bamboo bicycles are increasing in popularity Ghana with many companies now manufacturing the products for the market, including Booomers International.
- 2015-01-20Mozambican sculptor Goncalo Mabunda creates works of art from decommissioned recovered weaponry and military equipment -- leftovers from the country's 16-year-long civil war.
- 2015-01-20El artista mozambiqueño crea belleza tomando la muerte como punto de partida. El escultor mozambiqueño Goncalo Mabunda crea obras de arte usando armamento y equipo militar decomisado y recuperado... restos de los 16 años de guerra civil del país.
- 2015-01-19The Igbo are one of Nigeria's largest ethnic groups. Among them is a minority of practicing Jews who believe they are descended from the "lost tribes" of Israel. (Courtesy: Chika Oduah.)
- 2015-01-18Los arquitectos aseguran que el edificio parece la punta de una pluma fuente, aunque 'el ojo de Sauron' de El señor de los anillos' es invocado inevitablemente.
- 2015-01-15The top image of the northern Nigerian town of Baga, taken on January 2, 2015, shows thatch roof structures. These have been rebuilt since an attack on Baga in April 2013. The dark color in the bottom image, taken on January 7, 2015, represents burned are
- 2015-01-14An artist's impression of the Al Noor Tower, which could become the tallest building in Africa. Construction is planned for later this year.
- 2015-01-12Sugar is big business in Uganda. These trucks loaded with sugar cane are heading for the factories of Kakira Sugar Limited -- one of the east-central African country's oldest and largest sugar companies.
- 2015-01-08Zimbabwean-born Kudzanai Chiurai is an internationally acclaimed multimedia artist.
- 2015-01-05Kenya-based afro pop group Sauti Sol, which is made up of Bien-Aime Baraza, Willis Austin Chimano, Savara Mudigi and Polycarp Otieno, tops the list of Mdundo's most downloaded artists.
- 2015-01-02In a bid to deal with the abundance of invasive water hyacinth plants clogging up local waterways, Nigerian entrepreneur Achenyo Idachaba founded MitiMeth, a startup transforming the weeds from nuisance plants to beautifully-handcrafted artisan products.