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."
Nearly 100 million children and youth aged 5 to 19 across Africa are not socially integrated simply because they are out of school, African Union (AU) Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Mohammed Belhocine said Thursday, February 15. These children and youth are vulnerable to all sorts of scourges, and they can be easily […]
JOE BAVIER & BOUREIMA BALIMA Days after Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced last month they were quitting the West Africa political union ECOWAS, Burkina Faso’s military ruler Ibrahim Traore was already naming his next target: the region’s CFA franc currency. “It’s not just the currency. Anything that maintains us in slavery, we’ll break those […]
Leaders at an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Saturday, February 17 condemned Israel’s offensive in Gaza and called for its immediate end. Moussa Faki, the chair of the African Union Commission, said Israel’s offensive was the “most flagrant” violation of international humanitarian law and accused Israel of having “exterminated” Gaza’s […]
In a quest for political change and economic justice, young activists in Eswatini and across Africa are challenging the status quo, taking on leaders accused of prioritizing personal gain over national welfare. Frustrations simmer as the continent’s youthful population, with a median age of 19, demands a departure from the legacies of poverty, unemployment, and […]
You probably expected to see coffee on the list, but you may be surprised at the others. LAUREN DAVID You’re likely familiar with foods that aren’t good for your heart. But when it comes to your bladder, it’s possible that you haven’t considered the correlation between diet and peeing. Unless you’ve had a urinary tract […]
Amid talk of ditching the West African franc, a colonial-era legacy, analysts unpack what it means for the three troubled Sahel states. HANNANE FERDJANI Since Niger’s July 30 coup, fissures within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have become bigger. In September, Niger along with fellow ECOWAS members Burkina Faso and Mali formed […]
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 […]
New Community Corporation Board of Directors Chairman Dr. A. Zachary Yamba has retired from his position. Yamba joined the board in September 2012 and became chairman in June 2018 following the passing of NCC founder and board Chairman Monsignor William J. Linder. Yamba was involved with New Community long before his official capacity as a […]
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 […]