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01/25/2012 10:57 AMOprah's first academy grads Surrounded by the white-clad students of her all-girls academy, Oprah Winfrey is glowing with pride. 
01/11/2012 08:58 AMBridging Africa's digital divide Stretching some 7,000 kilometers along the West African coastline, a submarine fiber-optic cable emerges off the coast of Nigeria to help bridge the digital divide in the continent. 
12/23/2011 06:33 AMSA power chief: No coal, no growth It might be one of the world's worst polluting energy sources, but coal has allowed South Africa to become the continent's largest economy, according to the chief executive of the country's power utility company Eskom. 
01/23/2012 12:25 PMWhich African do you most admire? Each week African Voices brings you inspiring and compelling profiles of Africans across the continent and around the world. Now, we want to hear from you. Let us know which African you most admire, and why. Your comments could end up on a future episode of African Voices. 
01/17/2012 06:55 AMActor calls for people power He might be one of Egypt's most recognizable faces but in Cairo's Tahrir Square last January, when it became the focal point for anti-regime sentiment, actor Khaled Abol Naga was proud to be just one of the crowd. 
12/29/2011 10:43 AM'War Horse' creators' puppets With their magnificent puppets, Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler have been pushing theatergoers' experiences to new heights, casting a spell on audiences across the world. 
02/02/2012 09:22 AMClose encounters of a Zambian kind "Stop the car, stop the car! There's a bull elephant in the road!" Words I listen to closely as they're being shouted by a man sitting next to me clutching an AK-47. 
01/13/2012 10:27 AMA look inside Zambia CNN's Errol Barnett visited Zambia on his first Inside Africa assignment. 
02/03/2012 12:57 PMButterflies helps threatened forests Farmers in Tanzania are helping to conserve threatened forests by cultivating an unlikely crop: butterflies. 
02/04/2012 01:04 AMEgypt protests escalate after riot Clashes continue between police and protesters in Egypt following a soccer match riot that left dozens dead. 
02/04/2012 01:05 AMWitnesses: Police stood idle in Egypt Horrified eyewitnesses described how Egyptian police officers stood by as violent clashes between rival fans at a football match in the northeastern city of Port Said left scores dead. 
02/03/2012 11:05 AMArab League no longer toothless? For much of its history, the Arab League has been viewed as a toothless organization. That perception has begun to change in the aftermath of its responses to crises in Libya and Syria. 
02/01/2012 10:02 AMEgyptian riots go beyond football The deaths of 73 football fans shortly after a match between Cairo 's Al Ahly and Al Masry in Port Said, Egypt, has shocked the world. 
02/01/2012 10:13 AMSouth Africa's wine region You can't help but be stunned by the visual splendor when walking around the Western Cape region of South Africa, in towns like Stellenbosch. Immediately you see why this part of the African continent is so well suited for the wine making craft, which was recently my mission for "Inside Africa." 
02/02/2012 07:13 AMHealing 'traumatized continent' As Kenya's leading psychiatrist, Frank Njenga has been championing the cause of better mental health care on the east African country and the continent for more than three decades. 
01/29/2012 05:46 AMCongo's abuse survival strategy An inaugural group of Congolese women are graduating Saturday from a gender violence survivors program in the nation's east, where armed rebels roam the hills and rape residents. 
01/27/2012 05:37 AMTough challenges for Libyans Clashes between rival militias. Allegations of detainee torture. Assaults on the headquarters of the National Transitional Council, which governs Libya. 
01/25/2012 10:56 AMInside the "Pirates of Somalia" CNN's Erin Burnett interviews Jay Bahadur, author of "Pirates of Somalia" on the rescue of two Americans held by pirates. 
01/26/2012 09:49 AMAfrica's 'father of technology' Known by many as Africa's "father of technology," software pioneer Herman Chinery-Hesse has been spawning innovations for two decades, helping to break down tech barriers between the continent and the rest of the world. 
01/25/2012 10:56 AMSEALS: We never quit, always win Two former Navy SEALS explain how the successful raid to rescue a group of hostages in Somalia went down. 
01/25/2012 09:11 AMKenya praises aid worker rescue CNN's Becky Anderson talks to the Kenyan prime minister about the rescue of aid workers in Somalia by U.S. special forces. 
01/25/2012 12:56 PMEgypt's 'unfinished revolution' It has been one year since protests started in Egypt, but the country still has a long way to go. CNN's Ben Wedeman recently spoke to some prominent Egyptians about the country's "unfinished revolution" and why there is still unrest. 
01/25/2012 12:56 PMFootball doping affecting children? Mohammed Qassi Al Saeed, Mohammed Shoaib, Saleh Larbas, Jamal Manad, and Tak Ben Sawlah all played international football for Algeria in the 1980s. 
01/23/2012 09:27 AMRwanda: Three days, three musts The tiny landlocked nation of Rwanda may be known for its violent past but tourism officials are hoping, with the help of mountain gorillas, that travelers will see for themselves why the "land of a thousand hills" is worth a visit. 
01/23/2012 05:41 AMNigeria's embattled president He is the son of a canoe-carver, a mild-mannered academic who wears a fedora but eschews the flowing robes and bombastic brashness that often characterize Africa's "Big Man" leaders. 
01/21/2012 01:23 AMClose encounters of Zambian kind "Stop the car, stop the car! There's a bull elephant in the road!" Words I listen to closely as they're being shouted by a man sitting next to me clutching an AK-47.
01/23/2012 07:25 AMChurchill: Painter and talent scout He is best known for steering Great Britain through the perils of World War II, but Winston Churchill was also a talented painter who helped launch the career of one of North Africa's leading artists, Hassan el Glaoui. 
01/22/2012 08:05 AMEgypt's revolution far from over Egypt's first democratically elected parliament is to meet Monday - but that is not the end of the country's revolution. 
02/04/2012 01:26 AMDeath toll climbs in Egypt protests Nine people died over two days in clashes between Egyptian police and protesters amid reports of inadequate security at a soccer match that devolved into a riot in which 79 fans were killed, officials said. 
02/04/2012 01:07 AMAnger in Cairo and beyond CNN's Ben Wedeman reports from Cairo on the continuing clashes happening across Egypt following the soccer riots. 
02/04/2012 01:04 AMEgypt on edge after soccer riots CNN's Ben Wedeman reports on the political fallout from the Port Said soccer riots. 
02/03/2012 12:53 PMIn the shadows of Table Mountain For hundreds of millions of years it has dominated the coastal skyline of southern Africa, imposing a dramatic and domineering backdrop to an idyllic location. 
02/03/2012 11:04 AMWomen of the Arab Spring Women have been at the forefront of uprisings that started in Tunisia and spread across North Africa and the Gulf. But many fear the promise of change is fading. CNN follows eight women who say they will not back down. 
02/03/2012 03:01 AMRights group: Libyan diplomat was tortured A Libyan diplomat died 24 hours after he was detained by a militia based in the city of Zintan, Human Rights Watch said. 
02/03/2012 04:31 AMMen jailed for killing South African lesbian Gay rights advocates in South Africa hailed a judge's sentencing of four men to 18 years each in prison for brutally slaying a 19-year-old lesbian. 
02/03/2012 07:48 AM2 Americans kidnapped in Egypt, authorities say Two American tourists have been kidnapped in the southern part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, a security official said Friday. 
02/03/2012 07:43 AMWomen and the Arab uprisings: 8 'agents of change' to follow Women have been at the forefront of the uprisings that started in Tunisia and soon cascaded west to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and across the Gulf. Over the past year, Arab women have relished the promise of a change -- and found a new sense of equality long suppressed under sclerotic patriarchal regimes.
02/03/2012 05:29 AMU.S. accuses Sudan of bombing civillians The United States accused Sudan of targeting civilians in recent airstrikes, including one that destroyed a Bible school in South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan. 
02/02/2012 10:30 AMBombs hit evangelical Bible school in Sudan, group says A Christian evangelical group said Thursday that a Bible school -- backed by American evangelist Franklin Graham -- was destroyed in the latest bombing raid to hit South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly created independent country of South Sudan. 
02/02/2012 08:23 AMBritish foreign secretary visits Somalia British Foreign Secretary William Hague visited Somalia's capital Mogadishu Thursday, the Foreign Office announced, saying it was the first trip there by a British foreign secretary since 1992. 
02/01/2012 10:00 AMAt least one dead in Senegal protests A tense Senegal braced for more protests Wednesday following days of demonstrations over a court decision allowing the incumbent president to run for a third term. 
01/31/2012 08:13 AMSomali militants ban Red Cross aid The Somali militant group Al-Shabaab says it has banned the International Committee of the Red Cross from operating in the regions it controls, accusing the organization of distributing expired food. 
01/31/2012 02:10 AMFate of Chinese held in Sudan uncertain The fate of dozens of construction workers kidnapped in Sudan, including a group of Chinese nationals, remained unclear Tuesday amid conflicting reports on the situation. 
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