Factsheets

Boko Haram militants attacked the remote northern Nigerian towns of Baga and Doro Gowon earlier this month killing scores of people. What do...

On Tuesday 20 January Zambians went to the polls to elect a new president. Here is our factsheet on the candidates in the run-up to the elec...

How many orphaned children are there in South Africa? Figures range from 3.4-million to nearly 4-million. Some projections have suggested fi...

South Africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. This factsheet looks at how unemployment is measured.

Namibia went to the polls on 28 November 2014. Our factsheet looks at the polls, the parties, the results and the promises.

The West African Ebola epidemic, the worst in the history of the disease, has focused international attention on sub-Saharan Africa in 2014 ...

How many people are there in Africa? What is the continent’s projected population over the next ten, twenty and hundred years? And how accur...

What is Ebola? Who is at risk? How is it diagnosed? How does it spread? How are patients treated? What controls the spread? This factsheet h...

All the facts: who qualifies for the new Zimbabwean Special Dispensation permit (ZSP), what the application requirements are and what it wil...

Towns in Nigeria's northeast have been overrun by Boko Haram militants in recent weeks. But who are the group and what do they want? The aut...

This factsheet provides an overview of key crime trends for the period 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 as recorded by the South African Police...

How much does South Africa's cabinet cost the taxpayer every year? We unpack the numbers.