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."
JOSEPHINE MAHACHI|SILJA FROHLICH|ISAAC KALEDZI The US military is urging African countries to be more responsible for their own security as the Trump administration focuses on domestic policies. Could the move fuel militant groups and undo counter terrorism progress? Africa should take greater ownership of its own security challenges. That was the message recently communicated by […]
JUSTICE MALALA Africa should be celebrating, as Nigeria, the continent’s most populous country with 227 million people, toasted its Democracy Day on Thursday, June 12. The day has been recognized since 1999 when, after 39 years of military coups, parliamentary democracy was restored to the oil-rich nation. Unfortunately, as the west African powerhouse marks its […]
DJAMILIA PRANGE de OLIVEIRA For Juliana Lumumba, Patrice Lumumba wasn’t just an independence leader and politician. He has her father. That’s why she continues to call for the truth about Lumumba’s assassination 64 years ago.For more than 60 years, Juliana Lumumba has had questions. Who murdered her father? How did the Americans help? What did […]
Child marriage and sexual violence plague women and girls as climate change threatens the northern Marsabit region. TOM PARRY As the sun approaches its scorching zenith, Dukano Kelle heads out from the desolate settlement of Kambinye in northern Kenya, urging her family’s reluctant donkey forward by whipping it with an acacia branch. Though the oppressive […]
At her ‘Home of Hope’, Edith Lukabwe cares for children abandoned by their families. CHRISTOPHER HOPKINS On a muddy, uneven and unnamed road on the outskirts of the eastern city of Jinja, children laugh and play in a compound surrounded by green hills and sugarcane plantations. A child hurtles his wheelchair down the driveway at […]
FAROUK CHOTHIA Tanzania has decided to block access to social media platform X because it allows pornographic content to be shared, the information minister has said. The content was contrary to the East African state’s “laws, culture, customs, and traditions,” Jerry Silaa told a local TV station. Tanzanians have reported that access to X has […]
More immigrants coming to France have degrees – and most now come from Africa rather than the rest of Europe, new figures from the country’s statistics bureau show. Insee, France’s national statistics agency, examined migration trends between 2006 and 2023. The number of people moving to France rose steadily in that period – from 234,000 […]
Guinea’s military government has cancelled 129 minerals exploration permits, it said in a statement late on Monday, May 26 as the West African nation tightens control over its assets. A senior official at the Ministry of Mines said the decision was taken to free unused resources for other investors. “We’ve simplified it by digitizing the […]
Adele Koue Sungbeu, a 45-year-old midwife from Ivory Coast, is among 28 women who recently underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the effects of female genital mutilation (FGM). The procedure, carried out at a public hospital in Abidjan, is part of a groundbreaking initiative aimed at offering free surgeries to FGM victims, to help heal both […]
Tech mogul says: “Every country in Africa should be on a path to prosperity’ MAYA YANG US tech mogul Bill Gates has pledged the majority of his $200bn fortune towards health and education services in Africa. Speaking at an event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday, June 2, the 69-year-old said that his pledge would […]