Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
Women’s rights are under threat as Gambia’s parliament discusses a bill to roll back a ban on female genital mutilation. Members of Gambia’s National Assembly have proposed legislation to repeal a national law prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM). The tiny West African nation explicitly criminalized FGM, also called cutting or female circumcision, in 2015. The […]
JILL LAWLESS The Church of England should create a fund of 1 billion pounds — $1.27 billion — to address its historical links to slavery, according to an advisory panel. That’s 10 times the amount the church previously set aside. An independent oversight group established by the church said earlier this month that a fund […]
TOMMY TRENCHARD It’s barely 9 a.m. but the cramped alleyways of Kaduna in the western end of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, are already packed with young men. They sit hunched over on low wooden benches, their eyes closed, heads lolling. Periodically, one lights up a skinny joint, takes a few drags and slumps back down […]
While Europe wrangles over banning the use of glyphosate – the active ingredient in the Roundup weedkiller accused of damaging human health and biodiversity – farmers on the African continent remain heavily dependent on such herbicides. However, an Ivorian cocoa farmer is showing it’s possible to both drop glyphosate and promote beekeeping in the process. […]
VICTORIA GILL & KATE STEPHENS To sell water and make his living, Steve relied completely on his donkeys. They pulled him in his cart loaded with its 20 jerry cans to all his customers. When Steve’s donkeys were stolen for their skins, he could no longer work. That day started like most others. In the […]
PATRICK ILUNGA The Congolese government says it has rectified a controversial mining deal it had signed with China, potentially upending what had looked like a source of bad relations between Kinshasa to Beijing. The new deal, officials said in early February, is a result of open negotiations with Beijing. It came 16 years after the […]
AGGREY MUTAMBO Somalia is the latest African country to ban single-use plastics, potentially boosting the growing campaign to limit the use of non-biodegradable packaging material in the war against global warming. A decree issued on Thursday February 1 by the Environment and Climate Change Ministry indicated that the country would stop single-use plastics from June […]
ISAAC MUGABI A national park that provides clean water to Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown is under threat due to human activities, a UN report has said. Water is a scarce resource in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, where it is not unusual to see groups of youths gathered around water taps, jostling for turns […]
KATIE RAZZAL The UK is sending some of Ghana’s “crown jewels” back home, 150 years after looting them from the court of the Asante king. A gold peace pipe is among 32 items returning under long-term loan deals, the BBC can reveal. The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) is lending 17 pieces and 15 are […]
Nigerian children with amputated limbs are getting help to walk again and fight social stigma through the support of a group that has given free artificial limbs to more than 500 children. The accident that broke 10-year-old Princess Igbinosa’s right leg could have crushed her dreams of becoming a model in a country where not […]