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."
Despite progress over the past 10 years to promote and protect the human rights of Black people worldwide, racism and discrimination persist, the President of the UN General Assembly President said on Friday, November 8. Philémon Yang was speaking at a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters to mark the closure of the International Decade for […]
BALEW DEMISSIE The G20, which evolved from a meeting of finance ministers in 1999 to a summit of heads of state and government in 2008 in response to the international financial crisis, has become a key forum for international economic cooperation. Originally, the G20 focused on macroeconomic policy to prevent a global depression. Since then, […]
LAMECK MASINA Blantyre, Malawi — Refugees at Malawi’s only refugee camp, Dzaleka, have started receiving their first-ever insurance payouts to mitigate the impact of the El Nino weather pattern, which has destroyed their crops. The payouts, amounting to nearly $408,000 in total, were facilitated by the African Risk Capacity Group and KfW Development Bank, after […]
HENNIE STANDER The EU says it will not renew a fishing agreement between Brussels and Dakar following “shortcomings” over illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The accord between the EU and Senegal, in force since 2019, was due to expire at midnight on Sunday, November 17. Jean-Marc Pisani, EU ambassador for West Africa said the agreement […]
For far too long the Zambian and other African governments have prioritized urban over rural communities. HARRY VERHOEVEN As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku over how to finance climate action remain gridlocked, Southern Africans are learning that some “renewable energy” might not be renewable after all in an age of […]
JACK THOMPSON Rice borders on the sacred in Sierra Leone. Unless a meal includes rice, people say, you haven’t eaten at all. But as prices soar, consumers in the West African nation are giving up other food to buy it. That’s a major reason why 83% of the population is food insecure, according to the […]
MOUSTAPHA DIALLO After years of serving as Mali’s minister of the environment, Aida M’bo now spends her time planting trees in a fight that many in the arid West African country acknowledge they are losing. “Deforestation is an important issue in Mali,” she said, standing in front of the Zamblara forest. For decades it has […]
BASILLIOH RUKANGA Kenya’s Catholic Church has rejected a donation of about $40,000 (£32,000) made by President William Ruto. He offered the money towards the building of a priest’s house and as a gift to the choir during Mass on Sunday at the Soweto Catholic Church in the capital, Nairobi. The donation followed a recent statement […]
Italian priest Davide Marcheselli has been fighting for years against Chinese companies illegally mining gold in the town of Kitutu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He says mining has spoilt the town which lies in South Kivu province, polluting rivers and destroying fields. Hundreds of foreign companies, most of them Chinese-owned, mine gold in […]
Ghanaians face a crucial moment in their nation’s history as they go to the polls to select a new government and a new parliament for the next four years on December 7 this year. The political climate is so taut and saturated with political rhetoric between the two main parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) […]