After a year of intracontinental jockeying for position, Africa is making a name for itself on the netball court. Three countries are in the top 10 in the world: South Africa in fifth, Uganda in sixth and Malawi in seventh.

Up and up, and soon the top

African countries have slowly been stacking up wins in netball, but can they break into the global top four?

Borderlands: The story of the city of Kigoma is also the story of the MV Liemba and the MV Mwongozo. Both ferries have been removed from active service, leaving no government-owned ferries operational on Lake Tanganyika, leaving the city stranded.

Boats to nowhere

Kigoma, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, is one of Africa’s great frontier towns. But the big ships are not sailing any more.

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