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."
JACK WITTELS Hundreds of ships have been sailing under the flag of Eswatini without the African country’s permission to do so, according to a letter from the landlocked nation’s government. A large number of vessels have been noted as sailing under the African country’s flag, Eswatini’s government said in a letter to the International Maritime […]
CARLA BABB The U.S. is returning Special Forces troops to Chad after leaving at the country’s request nearly five months ago. Maj. General Kenneth Ekman, who oversaw the recent U.S. withdrawal from Niger at the request of U.S. Africa Command chief Gen. Michael Langley, told VOA in an exclusive interview Thursday September 19, that the […]
Kenya has pledged to send 600 more police officers to Haiti in the coming weeks to help fight gangs controlling much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and nearby areas. This would bring the Kenyan contingent, deployed incrementally since June to help the Caribbean nation’s beleaguered police force, up to 1,000. During a visit to the country, […]
Coca-Cola will invest $1 billion in Nigeria over the next five years, foreseeing “significant social and economic advancements” as the West African nation tries to fix the economy. President Bola Tinubu’s media adviser Bayo Onanuga said that the beverage giant announced the plan during a meeting between Tinubu and Coca-Cola’s global leadership. Several multinationals have […]
ANTONY SQUAZZIN A plan to bring electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030, backed by an initial pledge of $30 billion from the World Bank and the African Development Bank, has begun to be implemented with an assessment of the first potential beneficiaries. Some of the world’s most prominent climate organizations — the Rockefeller Foundation, […]
NELSON NATURINDA Yoweri Museveni’s date of birth was always a subject of debate due to a lack of records. Then his family landed on September 15 as the month he was brought to this earth some 80 years ago. Now an octogenarian, he plays fit-as-fiddle, sometimes appearing in short videos doing press-ups. And late in […]
To end the suffering in Sudan and across the region, global community should ensure all state and non-state actors uphold the law. HUSSEIN AWAD ALI I drew attention in a previous article to the inadequacy of the international community’s response so far to the war of aggression being waged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) […]
ISAAC KALEDZI | MUHAMMAD AL-AMIN | BLAISE DARIUSTONE | GAZALI ABDOU| MOUHAMADOU KANE Unprecedented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An estimated 4 million people — most of them children — are caught up in the devastation. The flooding that has swept through parts of West and […]
Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year-old Bhitoni never saw them as a source of cash, until now. Climate change-induced droughts have decimated her crops. Meanwhile, the world has a growing appetite […]
A row between a prominent journalist and a king has captivated many in Ghana. THOMAS NAADI It began when Afia Pokua criticized the Ashanti king’s handling of tensions with other ethnic groups, the deference that politicians show him, and expressed her frustration about the apparent supremacy of the Asante community. “Even the president… bowed to […]