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."
ARIEL ZILBER A Campbell Soup Company vice president was secretly recorded ripping the food giant’s products, mocking “poor people” who buy them, blasting Indian co-workers as “idiots” and admitting he sometimes showed up to work high — and the employee who reported it says he was the one to get fired. Robert Garza, a […]
JONATHAN LAMBERT Five months after a “breakthrough” HIV prevention drug got approval in the United States and became available in many wealthy countries, it’s getting rolled out in two African countries hit especially hard by the disease. On Wednesday, November 19, the U.S. State Department announced that Eswatini and Zambia have each received 500 doses […]
Campaigners say the company is contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity, while the firm says it is helping to combat malnutrition KAT LAY Nestlé is still adding sugar to most baby cereals sold across Africa, according to an investigation by campaigners who have accused the company of “putting the health of African babies at […]
KOFI AYIM Culture defines a people’s way of life through language, diet, clothing, dwelling, religious beliefs, and name structures, among others. Thus, culture is the sum of the expressions, beliefs, and mannerisms of a people. No group of people living in the earthly world exists without a modicum of culture. Culture plays a significant, if […]
PAUL NJIE & MANSUR ABUBAKAR Cameroon’s 92-year-old President Paul Biya has promised to restore order in the country gripped by post-election violence, as he was sworn in for an eighth consecutive term in office. In his inaugural address, the world’s oldest president offered condolences to victims of the protests and blamed those he called “irresponsible […]
The bloc says ballot stuffing, internet blackout and politically-motivated abductions compromised the vote’s ‘integrity’. FIONA KELLIHER Last month’s Tanzania elections failed to comply with democratic standards, says the African Union (AU), adding to mounting international pressure on President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s administration over the deadly vote. The AU’s election monitoring arm – which sent a […]
CAI NEBE Gold mining has a long history in West Africa, with economies based on the precious metal. But today, a large chunk of Ghana’s gold revenues vanish into the unofficial, and untraceable, trade. In medieval times, the name Ghana meant ruler of the Ghana Empire, or “King of Gold.” The country’s colonial-era name, Gold […]
A new struggle on an old battlefield DECLAN WALSH Since the city of El Fasher in Sudan fell to a paramilitary force last month, verified images and witness accounts have pointed to an unfolding massacre in the country’s Darfur region. Residents were shot as they tried to flee the city. Videos show paramilitary forces casually […]
NICOLAS NEGOCE & NATASHA BOOTY The military commander who has ruled Guinea since a coup four years ago has entered the presidential race ahead of next month’s election, breaking an earlier promise to hand power to a civilian government. Gen Mamadi Doumbouya submitted his candidacy at the Supreme Court on Monday, November 3, flanked by […]
Djibouti’s parliament has voted unanimously to lift a presidential age limit, opening the way for its 77-year-old leader Ismail Omar Guelleh to run for a sixth term in April 2026 election. Guelleh, known as IOG, has held power in the tiny Horn of Africa nation since 1999. With a population of just one million, it’s […]