CNN Site Map for Section Africa (Galleries) for December - 2015
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- 2015-12-24In Uganda, photojournalism has come a long way. This was particularly in evidence last month at the Uganda Press Photo Awards, which showcased some of the best photographic work this African nation has to offer.
The awards are the brainchild of the Fore
- 2015-12-24In a newly released poll by Transparency International, a global watchdog, and Afrobarometer, an organization which conducts surveys on African governance, 58% of Africans said they thought corruption is their country was getting worse.
- 2015-12-23For the seventh year in a row, Switzerland has come first in the The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report. But whilst the top of the global table is much the same, Africa is on the move. The tenth most competitive economy in Africa is
- 2015-12-23The Pyramid fields from Giza to Dahshur is one of the seven wonders of the world, and remains the only one of the original list still in existence.
- 2015-12-22Cold Hubs offer solar-powered, long-lasting and affordable cold storage in areas where this has been impossible.
- 2015-12-21Having originated in Chicago in "The Warehouse" nightclub, house music has spread throughout the world. But whilst the genre may be synonymous with Ibiza and Miami, today South Africa is the biggest market per capita anywhere in the world.
- 2015-12-21Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni attends the UK-Uganda Business Forum at Lancaster House in London in 2014. Academic Antonio Malfense Fierro argues the nation's economy would be better served by shifting focus from small and medium-sized ente
- 2015-12-21Photographer Julia Gunther captured the lives of one of the fiercest anti-poaching groups in South Africa: the Black Mambas.
- 2015-12-11More than 100 million small arms and light weapons are currently circulating in Africa. These weapons stir fear in the masses, but they also inspire reverence. Armed men command status and respect. Freedom songs connect AK-47s with liberation. Mozambique&
- 2015-12-09Pink Taxi is a Cairo car service with female-only drivers and passengers.
- 2015-12-08Bill and photographer Jean Depara made Kinshasa his canvas in the 1950s, capturing cowboys like Andrada in the urban neighborhoods they staunchly defended. Depara was an erstwhile shoemaker until 1953, first taking up the camera at his wedding in 1950, wh
- 2015-12-07Rwanda's new solar plant was in full production only a year after the agreement to construct it was signed. The Africa-shaped solar field has 28,360 photovoltaic panels, and has increased the country's generation capacity by 6%.
- 2015-12-03South African model Reeva Steenkamp died in February 2013 after she was shot at the home of her boyfriend, Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius. She was 29. Pistorius has been found guilty of the murder, after South Africa's Supreme Court overturned the
- 2015-12-03The cell in the Kgosi Mampuru II Prison in Pretoria, South Africa where Oscar Pistorius stayed for a year for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
- 2015-12-02Dr Muiz Ali Taha, founder of the canine mine clearance program in Sudan.