213 results for Africa Middle East

17 May 2012

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

17 May 2009

An interview with South African political cartoonist Zapiro, Guinea's corrupt politicians get their come-uppance, and pilgrims go high-speed.

17 January 2013

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

17 October 2009

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.

17 September 2012

We kick off a new series on strategic flight paths, starting with Istanbul to Mogadishu.

16 August 2012

The king of Swaziland's motorcade, Israel's robot wars and spy games in Africa.

16 February 2012

Why Africa is frantically going green, Saudi Arabia is desperately building houses, and South Africa is learning to love fracking.

17 May 2011

What Sultan Qaboos of Oman uses to get around, why the African Union is having an identity crisis and how recent unrest has affected stock exchanges

18 March 2010

Why leopard skins and white trainers are de rigueur for South African president Jacob Zuma, and the first stirrings of a spa revolution in Saudi Arabia.

21 June 2012

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…

8 January 2010

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.

17 May 2007

Robert Mugabe still misses Savile Row.

17 February 2011

Saudi Arabia's highly educated women, the UN pulls out of Chad, and battles over the Nile.

20 January 2011

South Africa's ambition to host a mega-telescope, the new calendar for Senegal, and the Ugandan president's desperate measures to win the election.

19 January 2017

Algeria's retirement plan, hot to stimulate growth in Botswana, building schools in Nairobi and Tangier's revival.

12 April 2016

The Egyptian president’s motorcade runs the gamut from bike to yacht.