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."
Reporting on the inauguration of the 472.3-km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), {International Railway Journal} said Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta had flagged off the first freight and passenger train on May 31. Kenya’s SGR is one of the flagship projects of the national development blueprint known as Vision 2030. The longterm development policy aims to […]
by Chika Oduah In 2014, the Nigerian National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) flagged the widely publicized film adaptation of Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s bestselling novel, “Half of a Yellow Sun” to ensure that it would not undermine national security. While people around the world watched the film, in Nigeria, its release had […]
By Melissa Mark-Viverito and Seymour W. James Jr. In September 2016, Aaron Cedres was arrested for gang assault, accused of beating a patron outside a Bronx nightclub he worked at as a bouncer. Surveillance video supposedly captured the assault, and when the case was presented to the grand jury, defense lawyers asked to see the […]
by Mbom Sixtus, BAMENDA It’s a Monday evening in Bamenda, the main city in troubled English-speaking Cameroon. The gates of the Vatican Express bus depot are shut, just like five other coach companies in town. Any other day and there would be at least five long distance buses ready to leave for the rest of […]
by Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor The UN refugee agency has called on the Libyan government in Tripoli to close its refugee detention centres, describing conditions as inhumane and shocking.The call comes as the Libya Quartet meets in Brussels on Tuesday May 23 to discuss how to slow the flow of refugees across the Mediterranean from […]
By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus won the race to be the next head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, becoming the first African to lead the Geneva-based United Nations agency. The former health minister and foreign minister, who vowed to make universal health care his priority, won over […]
A tutoring app developed by a 27-year-old Nigerian has won an engineering award given by the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering. Godwin Benson designed Tuteria, a platform that links qualified tutors to students in their area and within their budget. He developed the platform based on the experiences he had as a tutor. The engineering […]
Layeni/Kenya The last native speaker of the Elmolo language reportedly died sometime in the 1970s. By then, only a few hundred Elmolo remained, eking out a living on Kenya’s southern waters of Lake Turkana as they always had, drinking its brackish waters and fishing for catfish, tilapia, and Nile perch. Thanks to intermarriage with other […]
by Michaeleen Doucleff When Ebola erupted in West Africa a few years ago, it was catastrophic. But one good thing emerged from the outbreak: The development of an Ebola vaccine — a powerful vaccine. As we reported back in December, the vaccine provided 100 percent protection against Ebola when given quickly after exposure. “It’s very […]
By Eleni Mourdoukoutas When the world was changing from mechanical and analogue technology to digital electronics four decades ago, Africa was nowhere on the scene. Fast-forward to the present, and Africa has largely been able to catch up with other regions in mobile phone use and Internet access, successfully sidestepping the era of desktop computers […]