The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa. Rwanda and Burundi are among the continent’s smallest states. More than just neighbors, these three countries are locked together by overlapping histories and by extreme political and economic challenges. They all score very low on the United Nations’ human development index, […]

Consumers are now spending more time with online media than they are with traditional forms of media. Globally digital including social media and mobile internet usage now accounts for 57% of daily media time. Overall, consumers now spend an average of 10.7 hours a day with all forms of media and 5.6 hours of that […]

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) conducted an assessment of African newspapers online to determine the extent to which those news sources are available in electronic format to researchers at North American institutions. An earlier 2012 study undertaken by CRL on current acquisition of print newspapers showed a continuing gradual decline in the number of […]

Journalists are bound by duty and passion to take the lead in the exercise of freedom of expression to serve the public and maintain the health of their country’s democracy. Yet, across the globe, they continue to face persecution and repression in the form of death threats, kidnapping, arbitrary arrests, detention, harassment and censorship. Despite […]

Scientific or technological inventions are neither good nor bad in themselves. It is how they are used by us that makes them either good or bad for humankind. Nuclear power immediately springs to mind as a classic example. Man’s ability to fly is another. Aircraft can be used to transport people and goods from one […]