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."
In a typical year, 1 million people apply for green cards and half of those apply from within the U.S. to change their status while they are living here, a former USCIS official said. DANIELLA SILVA & JULIA AINSLEY The Trump administration said Friday, May 22 that people with temporary visas seeking to adjust their […]
The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has a fatality rate of up to 50 percent and no approved vaccine as yet. PRIYANKA SHANKAR The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the latest outbreak of a rare strain of the Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is a “public health emergency […]
Maternal fetal medicine and family medicine physicians stress that we must keep fighting the glaring disparities in maternal mortality rates in the U.S. KIMBERLY RICHARDS Black women in the United States have the highest maternal mortality rate of any racial group — and it’s a crisis that should alarm everyone. Stories of Black women either […]
When analyzing the oldest books of the Bible, scholars have identified the work of various writers and editors. But how did the final version come to be? JAVIER ALONSO LOPEZ Of the 24 books that make up the Hebrew Bible, the oldest are the five core books of the Torah: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and […]
DALE MANNING, ANYA NAKHMURINA, ELI FENICHEL Most Americans tend to think about bats only around Halloween, but the U.S. economy benefits from these furry flying mammals every day. Bats pollinate plants, including many important food crops, when they stop by flowers to drink nectar. Their guano is mined from caves for fertilizer. And they eat […]
STEVEN GORDON Anti-immigrant marches in several major South African cities (such as Tshwane and Johannesburg) in early May 2026 once again led to questions being asked about xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa. In the wake of the protests President Cyril Ramaphosa called on South Africans to embrace solidarity with their African neighbors. For their part, […]
BOUBA JALLOH President John Mahama wants to criminalize employers demanding sex in exchange for work. But can a new law — that falls into a legal grey zone — be enforced? President John Mahama’s call to criminalize so‑called “sex for jobs” marks one of the clearest signals yet that Ghana’s leadership is willing to confront […]
Diplomacy that does not disrupt the flow of foreign weapons, finance, and logistics into Sudan is underwriting, rather than ending the war. HUBERT KINKOH It is three years since conflict broke out between the two armed centers of power in Sudan: the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The war has […]
“They kept saying we had to go back to our country.” AUGUSTINE PASSILLY Sudanese authorities have deported thousands of South Sudanese from the country over the past year, driving abusive raids that have led to killings, family separations, confiscation of personal belongings, prolonged detention, and verbal harassment. The New Humanitarian spoke to six recent deportees […]