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."
MAURIZIO ESPOSITO La ROSSA France’s Ministry of Culture handed over three Malagasy skulls to Harea Georges Kamamy, the reigning king (ampagnito) of the Sakalava people in Menabe, a western region of Madagascar, on 26 August 2025. The skulls had been held for more than a century in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris. One […]
SELLOANE NTSHONYANE The Cape Town Regional Court postponed Chidimma Adetshina’s immigration case to February 2027, pending a Western Cape High Court review. Operation Dudula members protested outside court, calling for Adetshina, born in South Africa to a Nigerian father, to be sent to Nigeria. Former Miss South Africa finalist Chidimma Adetshina will have […]
INES M. POUSADELA Last August, a one-month-old girl in The Gambia bled to death after being subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that had been illegal in the country since 2015. FGM is a human rights violation, whatever the appeals to faith or tradition made in its defense, but now the Gambian Supreme […]
The Independent’s chief international correspondent, Bel Trew, traveled across the Central African Republic and Nigeria, speaking to women who are risking their lives for motherhood BEL TREW The muted beeps of the neonatal intensive care unit are drowned out by a sudden scramble of sound. A bundle is rushed into the corridor of this hospital […]
African countries to receive support as part of efforts to allow in-country producers to play a larger role in making medicines for the continent’s own needs. LIZ COOKMAN African countries are being backed to develop their own manufacturing capacity for next-generation HIV prevention medicines in a move aimed at reducing reliance on overseas drugmakers. Manufacturers […]
BEN LYNCH A “leaked” report has revealed that members of the governing body of London’s Square Mile were “instrumental” in England’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. The report, seen by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, identified 280 City of London Corporation members as traffickers between 1640 and 1807. This included 41 lord mayors – […]
The priorities are clear: reach every affected area, protect frontline workers, and turn commitments into action. DR. TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, MOHAMED YAKUB JANABI & JEAN KASEYA Each time we travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), we first go to listen. In Bunia, we have met dozens of community representatives: survivors, women, young […]
FATMA TANIS Noella Mukanoheli was nine months pregnant and bleeding out. It took her three hours to see a doctor. First, she made a 50-minute trip to the clinic that serves her village, riding on the back of a friend’s motorbike. There was no doctor on staff so they called an ambulance to take her […]
Riders say the switch is helping them cut fuel and maintenance costs. MUHAMMAD AUWAL IBRAHIM On a weekday morning in Pantami District, Gombe, the streets fill with the familiar rush of motorcycles carrying students, workers and traders across the city. But increasingly, some pass almost silently – a subtle sign of a transport shift driven […]
In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars. FERNANDO ALFONSO III & KASHMIR HILL Driving down a road lined with strip malls outside Dallas, Philip, a 27-year-old cellphone tower repairman, was describing the exquisite piquancy of his homegrown hot peppers when he stopped midsentence. “Flock!” […]