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."
KWABENA OPONG Reacting to fears of the spread of Omicron, the latest Covid-19 variant discovered in South Africa, Europe’s top clubs are threatening not to release players for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled to start January 2022. In a letter to the Deputy General Secretary of FIFA – Mattias Grastrom – the […]
The changing tide in the fight against bandits in Nigeria UCHENNA EKWO As recent security challenges demonstrate, fragile states and conflict-regions of the world are increasingly becoming safe havens for terrorists and transnational organized crimes. In Africa, terrorism is shrinking the continent’s investment space, and, in some cases, certain African countries are losing ground in their […]
DANA KENNEDY Mayor-elect Eric Adams made an emotional visit Thursday December 2 to Elmina Castle, the first European slave-trading post in sub-Saharan Africa — located on the west coast of present-day Ghana. Adams, on a private trip with his family, walked in and around the old castle, examining the shackles used to imprison Africans while […]
ANGELA DEWAN The UN’s World Food Program and multiple media organizations have been warning that the African island nation of Madagascar is on the brink of the world’s first climate-change-induced famine. But a new study says the human-made climate crisis has had little to do with the current food scarcity in the country. Consecutive years […]
President Roch Marc Christian Kabore faced demands Thursday December 9 for tougher action against Burkina Faso’s jihadi insurgency, a day after the crisis cost the prime minister his job. Seeking to defuse anger over a bloody 6-year-old campaign that has claimed about 2,000 lives and forced 1.4 million from their homes, Kabore on Wednesday accepted […]
KOFI AYIM Merry Christmas! We used to say that to each other not long ago. The spirit of Christmas would affect every home on the days leading up to December 25. Those were the days when we were young, back home in Ghana. We would put on (sometimes because our parents made us) the best […]
Millions of people in Ethiopia could be pushed deeper into hunger as the World Food Programme (WFP) faces a major funding shortfall that threatens its operations there over the coming six months, the UN agency warned on Monday, December 6. WFP urgently needs $579 million to deliver food aid and livelihood support to some 12 […]
As the omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr. Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn’t had to send anyone to the hospital. That’s one of the reasons why he, along with other doctors and medical experts, suspect that the omicron version really is causing milder COVID-19 than delta, […]
Depending on which side one belongs, being a Ghanaian in these post-Covid times in Ghana could worsen one’s Maalox moments or give one hope for 2024. It is too soon yet, but the current standoff between the very thin majority and the hilarious minority is a thing to think about. We have a political soccer […]
A Nigerian priest who spent more than a month in captivity following his abduction earlier this year has called on the international community to come to the aid of the people of God in Nigeria’s Kaduna State amid heightened insecurity. Fr. Bako Francis Awesuh, 37, told Aid to the Church in Need Nov. 25 attacks […]