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."
London — Melinda Gates wants you to know this: if women in poor countries can get the contraceptives they want, millions of lives will be saved. By Tami Hultman She questions why modern contraceptives should be controversial, when they can reduce a staggering death toll. “We have 100,000 women who didn’t want to get […]
Center for Media & Peace Initiatives is organizing Africa Roundtable – a speaker series that will emphasize the rebranding of Africa through different media platforms.va
By Abiodun Oluwarotimi United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon welcomes the election of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma of South Africa as Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and congratulates her on being the first African woman chosen to lead the regional body, his spokesperson said. “The Secretary-General looks forward to working closely with Dr. Zuma on […]
By Clara Nwachukwu, Okey Ndiribe, Emman Ovuakporie and Kunle Kalejaye Lagos — The Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company, SNEPCO, has been fined U.S.$5 billion over the massive oil spill that occurred at its Bonga oil field on December 20, 2011. This was disclosed yesterday by the Director General, National Oil Spill Detection and […]
Nairobi — Dallas Mavericks German superstar, Dirk Nowitzki married his long-time sweetheart, Jessica Olsson in a traditional African ceremony in Kenya. Multiple entertainment websites in the United States report the couple wed last weekend in the first of the two wedding ceremonies they have planned where the 7 foot groom delivered the bride price in […]
Nairobi — For months now East Africans have been expectantly waiting for an economic revolution to begin as they anticipate the launch of a new standardized payment system that will integrate the electronic transfer of money in the region. But continued delays in the launch of the system have economists fearing that the weak financial […]
The African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA) was enacted by former President Bill Clinton in 2000 with the aim of boosting trade and development in eligible African countries by allowing them to export products to the USA, duty-free. A large proportion of these products are garments, with exports from Africa to the USA now representing […]
By Trevor Grundy Veteran campaigners in the Church of England claimed an important step forward following a vote on 9 July by the General Synod, the Church’s governing body, to postpone draft legislation that would have allowed women to become bishops–though under circumstances the majority of Anglicans believe would have been both discriminatory and […]
By Davison Mudzingwa Cape Town — When Junior Mayema boarded a plane to South Africa from his native Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010, he cried tears of joy because he was finally heading to a country where he could live openly as a gay man. South Africa is the only African country to […]
By Kunle Akogun Nigeria is set to get its first female chief justice with President Goodluck Jonathan sending the name of Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar to the Senate for confirmation as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). If confirmed by the Senate, Justice Mukhtar will succeed the CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, who is […]