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."
A Libyan warlord has been convicted of human rights violations reportedly committed at a detention facility in the country’s west, authorities said, over a year after Italy deported him despite an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. Ossama Anjiem, also known as Ossama al-Masri, who led the Tripoli branch of the Reform and […]
THOMAS NAADI & HAFSA KHALIL Guinea has banned the export of unrefined gold in an effort to promote domestic processing of the precious metal. The policy – effective immediately – comes after Guinea’s President Mamadi Doumbouya met industrial and artisanal gold producers and buyers and aims to boost the economy and create more jobs. “Guinea […]
GABRIELLE EMANUEL Whenever it rains, Joseph, Gift and Alumbwe — ages 17, 15 and 12 — scramble to move their clothes to a dry corner of their home, deep in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. That’s because rain streams through holes in the roof. “The house is not okay. Even though we live here it’s […]
OLAMILEKAN OKEBIORUN The Democratic Republic of Congo has intensified its push to recover millions of colonial-era geological maps and records held in Belgium, as it seeks greater control over data showing the location of its copper, cobalt and other mineral resources. The Democratic Republic of Congo is pushing for the digitization and transfer of colonial-era […]
The first plane carrying Iranian, Afghan, Turkish and Georgian migrants deported from the United States arrived in Bangui in the Central African Republic on Friday, June 12 evening as part of a controversial US program to send undocumented foreigners – some of whom have legal protections – to third countries. The Central African Republic is […]
Former Cameroonian presidential candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary says he’s filed two complaints with the Paris Judicial Court against President Paul Biya, citing the principle of universal jurisdiction. The former minister, now living in exile in The Gambia, said on Friday, June that the complaints relate to the crackdown on protests following the 12 October 2025 […]
Germany’s 2026 World Cup squad has leaders with African heritage. The diversity of the team is a strength. JONATHAN HARDING Most of the news about Germany’s World Cup squad was around the return of Manuel Neuer. But beyond the headlines lies another story. Eight of the 26 players representing Germany this summer have roots in […]
NIMI PRINCEWILL “Kenya is not an American colony!” That was the chant echoing through Nairobi and other Kenyan cities last week as furious protesters vented their anger at plans for a US-funded isolation ward for Americans exposed to Ebola abroad. The controversial proposal has sparked fears of Ebola entering a country that has never recorded […]
Milei is carrying forward a state tradition that has long equated whiteness with progress. FEDERICO PITA In late March, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution, spearheaded by Ghana and backed by the African Union and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), recognizing the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery as the gravest crime against […]
Former president Edgar Chagwa Lungu will be buried in South Africa or Zambia after the country’s Supreme Court of Appeal overturned a ruling that would have allowed Zambia’s government to bring his body home for a state funeral in Lusaka. The judgment, delivered on Tuesday, June 23, sided with former First Lady Esther Lungu and […]