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."
Umaro Sissoco Embalo appoints Rui Duarte de Barros as new premier JAMES TASAMBA Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo on Wednesday December 20 fired Prime Minister Geraldo Martins, just a week after appointing him to the position, and replaced him with an economist and seasoned politician. Martins was reappointed prime minister on Dec. 12 after assuming […]
More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment in France, Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language. ELIAN PELTIER French, by most estimates the world’s fifth most spoken language, is changing — perhaps not in the gilded hallways of the institution in Paris that […]
Former President Edgar Lungu has decided to take legal action against the state’s decision to reject his application seeking the reinstatement of retirement benefits. Lungu, who served as Zambia’s Sixth President, has filed a Certificate of Urgency with the Lusaka High Court, aiming to expedite the filing of his petition during the court’s Christmas vacation. […]
MOISE M. BAHATI Burundi’s Supreme Court on Friday, December 8, convicted former prime minister Allain Guillaume Bunyoni for plotting to kill the president, and sentenced him to life in prison. Some of his properties, four houses and 14 vehicles including a Hummer, will also be confiscated. Bunyoni, an army general who served as the police […]
For over a year, a group of United Nations peacekeepers from Ghana led by Captain Esinam Baah regularly patrolled the “blue line” or the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel, and visited neighborhoods in the area, checking in with local families and making sure they were safe. In 2022, Baah was one of the 173 […]
Benin President Patrice Talon on Thursday December 21, 2023, called for relations to be swiftly re-established between his country and neighboring Niger, which is now controlled by military rulers after a coup. In his annual address to the nation before parliament, Talon expressed the “wish to see relations between Benin and the countries where coups […]
ELIAS CHAVEZ As the climate changes in Senegal, pastoralists — or cattle, sheep, and goat herders — are experiencing an evolving set of problems. Climate change is impacting grazing periods for livestock. Pastoralists in Senegal have to start their journeys earlier and travel further for their herds to graze. The UN estimates Senegalese pastoralists supply […]
LENNART DODOO The U.S. Congress has approved the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) as part of the annual defense spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The groundbreaking legislation criminalizes the act of foreign officials demanding or accepting bribes from Americans, marking a significant milestone in the fight against global corruption. Crafted with the […]
Several hundred of young Malawi men have left for Israel to work on farms left deserted by an exodus sparked by the Gaza war, the labor ministry said on Monday, November 27. A first flight carrying 221 youths left the southern African nation for Israel on Saturday November 25 and more would be sent soon, […]
A court in Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott on Monday December 4 sentenced former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to five years in prison for having abused his position to amass an ill-gotten fortune. Aziz, who ruled the pivotal country between North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa between 2008 and 2019, fell into disgrace under successor and current […]