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."
Kenyan forces have taken over two al Shabaab controlled towns after two airstrikes left the towns of Hosingo and Badade, in Southern Somalia, under the control of Kenyan forces and the Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government. The two towns were home to al Shabaab camps said to have been destroyed in the military offensive. An unspecified […]
Warri — AFTER cessation of hostilities for some months in the Niger Delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, weekend, threatened to bomb telecommunications giant MTN, SACOIL and other investments by South Africans in Nigeria over alleged interference of President Jacob Zuma in its struggle for justice in the oil producing […]
Thursday, February 2: Newark, NJ: The United Way of Essex and West Hudson held a reception for the African Community in the greater Newark area. It was an evening of networking and a learning process among Africans and African Americans who gathered at the venue for the evening’s event. It was also a time of […]
AFRICAN Heads of State and diplomats were in a celebratory mood when the $200 million African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was inaugurated on January 30. Built and furnished by the government of China, it is claimed the complex symbolizes the single-minded dedication of that country to a vision of “strategic partnership” with African […]
When a High Court in The Gambia, a small West African country convicted Amadou Scattred Janneh, a former Minister of Information and Communication, and six others, for distributing t-shirts calling for democratic change, it was clear that the assault on freedom of expression that country has assumed wider dimension. Dr Amadou Scrattred Janneh, 48, was […]
Monrovia — As the Norwegian Nobel Committee named Liberian President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf a joint winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, opposition party supporters were flooding the streets of Monrovia to demand that she be voted out of office in the upcoming election. Friday’s announcement immediately became political fodder in a highly charged presidential […]
Busan, South Korea — Women toil in the fields for most of their lives producing food and strengthening the largely agricultural economy of African countries, but when their fathers, husbands or older sons die, they are no longer welcome on land they may have tended for years. This observation was made by Hillary Rodham Clinton, […]
Durban — “This land belongs to women, they will never tire!” Chanted in Zulu, this South African freedom song from the anti-apartheid struggle was reworked into a protest song against climate change at the Rural Women’s Assembly, a side event at the COP17 conference – the 17th UN gathering on climate change. The forum aimed […]
International Criminal Court member states on Monday unanimously elected Fatou Bensouda of Gambia as the new chief prosecutor of the main global genocide and war crimes tribunal. Bensouda will take over next June from Luis Moreno-Ocampo who sought the genocide warrant against Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir and to bring crimes against humanity case against late Libyan […]
Ghana is one of Africa’s great successes – a stable and thriving country that is testament to the impact of aid. As pressure on these budgets grows, Observer editor John Mulholland travels to the country to assess its progress Early last Sunday morning on a plane ride from the Ghanaian capital, Accra, to the northern […]