Africa’s population boom means 1m new jobs are needed each month. Read how young people want to tackle the challenge
The great mobile technology leap forward
Sales of smart tech devices are soaring as the traditional PC declines. Observer writers look at their impact, which is already helping children to learn, spreading literacy, improving healthcare, boosting harvests in Africa – and making the web giants sit up
West Africa’s technological revolution driven by mobile phones
Whether it’s tracking locusts or government spending, west Africa’s hi-tech firms are finding new solutions to social problems
Kalonzo Musyoka hails technology city as start of something big for Kenya
ICT hub will promote foreign investment and domestic growth, says Kenyan vice-president eyeing top job in March elections
Could Malawi’s empty grain stores signal return to the bad times?
Joyce Banda’s country has surplus grain in some regions, but distributing it to those in the south hit by drought is a challenge
Miners’ wives rage at South African police brutality after ‘massacre’
Women performing apartheid-era toyi-toyi dance condemn mine company as they wait for news of victims of police shootings
Democrats’ nerves start to show as Ryan fires up conservative voters
The Republican candidate was kept on the back foot for weeks but in choosing Paul Ryan, Romney is looking to his core vote
Kenyans shame dangerous drivers on Twitter as MPs debate rules for roads
Nairobi considers traffic bill to introduce stiff penalties for dangerous driving as motorists face being outed by social media
London 2012: Rwandan mountain biker rides to banish genocide memory
Adrien Niyonshuti lost most of his family in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Against the odds he’s competing at the Games mountain bike cross-country race
Problems pile up in Kenya’s election year
Despite being east Africa’s biggest economy, Kenya is accused of failing to deliver on promises at home