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 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 […]
WEDAELI CHIBELUSHI & THOMAS NAADI Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has secured a fourth term following an election in which two of his biggest challengers were barred from running, provisional results show. Ouattara, 83, won 89.8% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Monday, October 27, and businessman Jeal-Louis Billon came a distant second […]
KARLOS ZURUTUZA Ehmudi Lebsir was 17 when he trudged more than 50 kilometers across the desert to stay alive. Half a century on, the Sahrawi refugee still has not gone home to what was then Spanish province of Western Sahara. On 6 November 1975, six days after Moroccan troops pushed into the territory, hundreds of […]
STEVE STRUNSKY After getting off work, Christopher Seals was enjoying a sunny afternoon in the plaza outside the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. He hadn’t noticed the historical marker a few feet away, almost hidden among a row of saplings, honoring Cudjo Banquante, an enslaved Black man born in Ghana of royal blood […]
EEDEM MENSAH-TSOTORME Minority leader and Member of Parliament for the people of Effutu constituency, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has expressed disappointment at the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo. He made these remarks when speaking at the commencement of the 3rd Meeting of the 1st Session of the 9th Parliament of the 4th Republic on Tuesday, […]
Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose. ELLEN CUSHING Coffee is in trouble. Even before the United States imposed tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil and 20 percent on Vietnam—which together produce more than half of the world’s coffee beans—other challenges, including climate-change-related fires, flooding, […]
FARAI MUTSAKA Inside a white tent with a wooden fireplace in the middle, about two dozen African girls slipped off their shoes, sat on mattresses and prepared to pour their hearts out. They held hands and their chants of “it’s so nice to be here” echoed through the tent before they set about discussing sexuality, […]
REBECCA CAIRNS One of the fastest ways to fly from Nairobi, Kenya, to Marrakech, Morocco, is via Paris, France. Despite being on the same continent, around 3,700 miles apart, the two destinations have no direct flights. It’s not just these two metropolises: many of the continent’s capitals and largest cities have no direct flights, or […]