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."
At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple crop of corn. After multiple cholera outbreaks in the southern African nation resulting from extreme weather and poor sanitation, flies were largely seen as something to exterminate, not […]
Ghana’s contentious presidential and parliamentarian elections on December 7 between the two dominant parties in the 4th Republic provided several firsts. Former president John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), who was the first one-term president in Ghana’s 4th Republic, shocked both critics and observers with his almost 57% of the total valid […]
DANAI NESTA KUPEMBA Ivory Coast’s beloved staple, attiéké – made from fermented cassava flour – has officially been added to UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage. Attiéké, pronounced atchekay, is a kind of couscous made from ground cassava roots. It is so well-loved that many people have it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nicknamed “Ivorian […]
Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party was declared winner Tuesday, December 3 of last late month’s disputed elections, ushering in the southern African country’s first woman president after a disputed vote that the main opposition has already said it does not recognize. Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah took just over 57 percent of ballots followed by the candidate for […]
LLOYD G. ADU AMOAH John Dramani Mahama, Ghana’s incoming president, has won a chance to rewrite his legacy. He was voted out of office in 2016 by what was then the highest margin in the post-independence history of the west African nation amid corruption scandals and an energy crisis that had crippled the country. But […]
Despite progress over the past 10 years to promote and protect the human rights of Black people worldwide, racism and discrimination persist, the President of the UN General Assembly President said on Friday, November 8. Philémon Yang was speaking at a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters to mark the closure of the International Decade for […]
BALEW DEMISSIE The G20, which evolved from a meeting of finance ministers in 1999 to a summit of heads of state and government in 2008 in response to the international financial crisis, has become a key forum for international economic cooperation. Originally, the G20 focused on macroeconomic policy to prevent a global depression. Since then, […]
LAMECK MASINA Blantyre, Malawi — Refugees at Malawi’s only refugee camp, Dzaleka, have started receiving their first-ever insurance payouts to mitigate the impact of the El Nino weather pattern, which has destroyed their crops. The payouts, amounting to nearly $408,000 in total, were facilitated by the African Risk Capacity Group and KfW Development Bank, after […]
HENNIE STANDER The EU says it will not renew a fishing agreement between Brussels and Dakar following “shortcomings” over illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The accord between the EU and Senegal, in force since 2019, was due to expire at midnight on Sunday, November 17. Jean-Marc Pisani, EU ambassador for West Africa said the agreement […]
For far too long the Zambian and other African governments have prioritized urban over rural communities. HARRY VERHOEVEN As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku over how to finance climate action remain gridlocked, Southern Africans are learning that some “renewable energy” might not be renewable after all in an age of […]