We sign up for a degree at the University of Seychelles, Iraq's foreign food shopping list grows as droughts dry up the rivers, Israel takes commuting to new lengths and Angola at last rebuilds... sort of.

The lavish motorcade of Kenya's president, the new jet-set of Nigeria, and an old banknote for West Africa returns.

Our new military strategy column examines how the US might unwittingly encourage China to bolster its nuclear arsenal. Plus, what the armies of Europe are spending their money on, and the EDA members who have started their…

The Middle East's premium advertising rates targeting Ramadan fasters, the new Neighbourhoods market becoming the latest in Johannesburg's city centre gentrification, and Zimbabwe's management of their scrapping of their…

Robert Mugabe still misses Savile Row.

In a show of girl power, Egyptian women are fighting back against the bottom pinchers and gropers who plague the region: self-defence classes for women are becoming increasingly popular and karate classes especially so.

Angola has a stab at press freedom, Nigeria's internet speeds up and we look at the upcoming elections in Egypt and Libya

Style leader: Morocco's Mohammad VI, election watch in Senegal and Iraqi tourism.

Our column from Pretoria looks at how South Africa is manoeuvering itself into a world-power position. Plus elections in Seychelles, educating ultra-orthodox children in Israel and demanding change in Lebanon.

Zimbabwe will see a violent election, Africa will begin to reject the IMF's prescriptions and all eyes will be on the new leader of the African Union.

How Islam helped US capitalism in Somalia and why women in Saudi buy cars they can't drive.

The motorcade of Equatorial Guinea's president, election watch in Congo and why Mali's interim prime minister is out of this world.