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."
Egypt and Ethiopia agreed Thursday July 13 to finalize a deal over Ethiopia’s controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile within four months, a breakthrough after years of tensions between the two countries. The massive $4.2-billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) has been at the center of a regional dispute ever since Ethiopia broke ground on […]
Zimbabwe plans to sell 40 000 tons of corn to Rwanda, marking its first export of the crop since 2001. By Ray Ndlovu, Bloomberg 21 Jul 2023 The government approved the sale after a surplus from past harvests, Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka said. Zimbabwe had its largest corn crop in more than three decades of […]
The Central Regional Chapter of the Rastafarian Council of Ghana called Rastafarian Conscious Youth, has advised unemployed Ghanaian Youth to secure their license and go into the cultivation of marijuana to get themselves some income. The group has expressed gratitude to President Akufo-Addo, Parliamentarians, Interior Ministry and all stakeholders who contributed to seeing parliament pass […]
The AKAN people probably came from North Africa and very early on settled in the center of today’s Ghana. Around the middle of the 17th century, the AKAN were divided into a lot of small kingdoms, sometimes linked by alliances, sometimes subjected to bloody conflicts. A great man decided to unify this divided people; OSSEI […]
JERRY CHIFAMBA Tunisia’s President Kais Saied dismissed criticism of his government’s handling of Black African refugees after hundreds of Black African migrants were apprehended by police and left on the Libyan border, Al Jazeera reports. On July 9, Saied said the migrants are being treated humanely, as a result of what he called “our values”. […]
ALEX HARDIE, LINDSAY ISAAC, SANA NOOR HAQ & LUKE McGEE The UK government’s plan to deport some asylum-seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, the Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, June 29, in a major blow to ministers’ controversial immigration policies that have been roundly condemned by humanitarian bodies. In a three-judge decision, the court overturned […]
Rashid Bynum was charged with killing Eunice Dwumfour He declined to waive extradition to New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy can request his return from Virginia’s governor The man charged with the death of Sayreville councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour delayed his return to New Jersey to face charges. Rashid Bynum was arrested on May 30 at his […]
India has become the second-largest issuer of credit to Africa, after neighboring China. Over the last ten years, the country has extended $32bn in credit across 42 African nations. India has projected $12bn across Africa, three times the number it has within its own area. In comparison, China has loaned $134.6bn to African nations, nearly […]
Twenty-six Ugandans sued French oil giant TotalEnergies in Paris on Tuesday June 27 for reparations over alleged human rights violations at its megaprojects across the country. Joined by five Ugandan and French aid groups, the Ugandan people from the affected communities say the French energy firm TotalEnergies caused “serious harm”, especially to their rights to […]
Greg Slater is co-founder with his wife Sharon of Family Watch International, a US group accused of financing propaganda about sexual and gender diversity CAROLINE KIMEU A group of human rights organizations in Africa renewed their calls last week for the American multinational Intel Corporation to dismiss a senior employee over his alleged involvement in […]