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."
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 […]
LENNART DODOO After 62 years, Liberia has returned to the global spotlight, securing a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) with a commanding 181 votes—its first since 1964. The historic election, held on June 3 at the UN Headquarters in New York, marks a major diplomatic milestone for the West African nation, […]
Refugees, exiles, and opposition groups hold the key to lasting peace and regional stability. VICTOIRE INGABIRE UMUHOZA More than three decades after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda plunged the African Great Lakes region into unprecedented turmoil, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to struggle in establishing collaborative and […]
MEHDI JOMAA & OBIAGELI “OBY” EZEKWESILI Digital transformation can be the engine of responsible and democratic development in Africa, but only if leadership, investment, and decision-making are rooted in the continent itself. As political, financial and social leaders met on 27 May 2025 in Abidjan, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, for the Annual Meetings of the […]