GLORIA ARADI Togo has delayed parliamentary and regional elections amid tensions following controversial constitutional reform. The reform approved by lawmakers late last month replaced the presidential system with a parliamentary one. It also hands executive power to the prime minister, reducing the presidency to a symbolic role. Opposition parties have rejected the reform, fearing it […]
Apr 14 2024 | Posted in
African News |
Read More »
Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 imposes penalties of up to life in prison for consensual same-sex relations and possible death in ‘aggravated homosexuality’ cases. Uganda’s Constitutional Court has rejected a petition seeking to annul an anti-gay law that has been roundly condemned internationally as one of the toughest in the world. The court found on Wednesday April […]
Apr 14 2024 | Posted in
African News |
Read More »
“The state of our Union depends upon” these bills, the letter reads. BEATRICE PETERSON More than 400 lawmakers, activists, civil rights leaders, musicians and actors have written a joint letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to support a list of Congressional bills on racial equity and reparative justice through executive actions and orders. […]
Apr 14 2024 | Posted in
Community News |
Read More »
As the 44-year-old is sworn in after a crucial election, we chart the road to victory for Africa’s newest and youngest leader. NICOLAS HAQUE “Finally, we can breathe,” the cashier at the American Food Store supermarket in Dakar said while swiping a pot of Greek yoghurt through checkout. It was three days after Senegal’s contested […]
Apr 14 2024 | Posted in
Features |
Read More »
The socioeconomic development of a country is anchored on the basic tenets of its culture. Once the tenets start to give way, the center cannot hold, and the country becomes an abracadabra of anything goes. Its people become lost for lack of cultural directions. Japan, China and a host of other countries have developed not […]
Apr 14 2024 | Posted in
Editorial |
Read More »
Mariama Sonko’s voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her lecture was punctuated by the thud of falling fruit. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women’s rights movement in West Africa, […]
Apr 14 2024 | Posted in
African News |
Read More »
LAUREN LEE When Ghanaian Afro-dancehall and reggae star Stonebwoy visited Jamaica earlier this year for the Island Music Conference, he made headlines with an impromptu freestyle alongside Shaggy, Sean Paul and Wyclef Jean. But for the 36-year-old, the trip was about more than just performing — it was a pilgrimage. Arriving in the capital, Kingston, […]
Apr 12 2024 | Posted in
Artcultainment |
Read More »
The socioeconomic development of a country is anchored on the basic tenets of its culture. Once the tenets start to give way, the center cannot hold, and the country assumes culturally haywire tendencies. Its people become lost for lack of cultural direction. Japan, China, and a host of other countries have developed, not through any […]
Apr 12 2024 | Posted in
top stories |
Read More »
AGGREY MUTAMBOEthiopia has opted to take back thousands of its nationals who had been living in squalid conditions in Saudi Arabia. The decision was announced late last month in Addis Ababa but would actually begin in early April, targeting some 70,000 Ethiopians.It may be the noblest thing to do in rescuing its stranded citizens, but […]
Apr 12 2024 | Posted in
top stories |
Read More »
JAHD KHALIL Brigitte Combs lives outside of Richmond and said she came to the Virginia state capitol when she heard legislators were discussing the issue of minors and forced marriage. Taking a deep breath, she told them that decades ago in Texas she had been married at 15 years old to a 37-year-old man. “I […]
Apr 12 2024 | Posted in
top stories |
Read More »