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."
Algeria’s parliament approved legislation allowing foreign companies to own as much of 80% of mining projects, a step change for the OPEC country seeking to diversify its economy. A majority of lawmakers in attendance voted in favor of the new law on Monday. Authorities say it will streamline the investment process, boost extractive industries and […]
LOIDE JASON Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has signaled possible investment interest in Namibia following his group’s record-breaking energy and industrial expansion across 12 African countries, including a newly completed oil refinery – the largest in the world. During a high-level meeting at State House on June 19, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and the Nigerian billionaire […]
RACHEL AMA ASAA ENGMANN Thousands of sculpted heads – captive African men, women, and children – meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred gathering of ancestors. Together, they form a powerful monument to the horror, violence, and resistance to enslavement, as well as the […]
Duncan Miriri PAPSS payment system allows trade settlement in local currencies Experts say move aims of lowering trade costs South Africa using G20 presidency to advance local payments US President Trump warns against de-dollarization efforts Africa’s push for local currency payments systems – once little more than an aspiration – is […]
JOSEPHINE MAHACHI|SILJA FROHLICH|ISAAC KALEDZI The US military is urging African countries to be more responsible for their own security as the Trump administration focuses on domestic policies. Could the move fuel militant groups and undo counter terrorism progress? Africa should take greater ownership of its own security challenges. That was the message recently communicated by […]
JUSTICE MALALA Africa should be celebrating, as Nigeria, the continent’s most populous country with 227 million people, toasted its Democracy Day on Thursday, June 12. The day has been recognized since 1999 when, after 39 years of military coups, parliamentary democracy was restored to the oil-rich nation. Unfortunately, as the west African powerhouse marks its […]
DJAMILIA PRANGE de OLIVEIRA For Juliana Lumumba, Patrice Lumumba wasn’t just an independence leader and politician. He has her father. That’s why she continues to call for the truth about Lumumba’s assassination 64 years ago.For more than 60 years, Juliana Lumumba has had questions. Who murdered her father? How did the Americans help? What did […]
Child marriage and sexual violence plague women and girls as climate change threatens the northern Marsabit region. TOM PARRY As the sun approaches its scorching zenith, Dukano Kelle heads out from the desolate settlement of Kambinye in northern Kenya, urging her family’s reluctant donkey forward by whipping it with an acacia branch. Though the oppressive […]
At her ‘Home of Hope’, Edith Lukabwe cares for children abandoned by their families. CHRISTOPHER HOPKINS On a muddy, uneven and unnamed road on the outskirts of the eastern city of Jinja, children laugh and play in a compound surrounded by green hills and sugarcane plantations. A child hurtles his wheelchair down the driveway at […]
FAROUK CHOTHIA Tanzania has decided to block access to social media platform X because it allows pornographic content to be shared, the information minister has said. The content was contrary to the East African state’s “laws, culture, customs, and traditions,” Jerry Silaa told a local TV station. Tanzanians have reported that access to X has […]