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."
CAI NEBE Gold mining has a long history in West Africa, with economies based on the precious metal. But today, a large chunk of Ghana’s gold revenues vanish into the unofficial, and untraceable, trade. In medieval times, the name Ghana meant ruler of the Ghana Empire, or “King of Gold.” The country’s colonial-era name, Gold […]
A new struggle on an old battlefield DECLAN WALSH Since the city of El Fasher in Sudan fell to a paramilitary force last month, verified images and witness accounts have pointed to an unfolding massacre in the country’s Darfur region. Residents were shot as they tried to flee the city. Videos show paramilitary forces casually […]
NICOLAS NEGOCE & NATASHA BOOTY The military commander who has ruled Guinea since a coup four years ago has entered the presidential race ahead of next month’s election, breaking an earlier promise to hand power to a civilian government. Gen Mamadi Doumbouya submitted his candidacy at the Supreme Court on Monday, November 3, flanked by […]
Djibouti’s parliament has voted unanimously to lift a presidential age limit, opening the way for its 77-year-old leader Ismail Omar Guelleh to run for a sixth term in April 2026 election. Guelleh, known as IOG, has held power in the tiny Horn of Africa nation since 1999. With a population of just one million, it’s […]
WEDAELI CHIBELUSHI & THOMAS NAADI Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has secured a fourth term following an election in which two of his biggest challengers were barred from running, provisional results show. Ouattara, 83, won 89.8% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Monday, October 27, and businessman Jeal-Louis Billon came a distant second […]
EEDEM MENSAH-TSOTORME Minority leader and Member of Parliament for the people of Effutu constituency, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has expressed disappointment at the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo. He made these remarks when speaking at the commencement of the 3rd Meeting of the 1st Session of the 9th Parliament of the 4th Republic on Tuesday, […]
FARAI MUTSAKA Inside a white tent with a wooden fireplace in the middle, about two dozen African girls slipped off their shoes, sat on mattresses and prepared to pour their hearts out. They held hands and their chants of “it’s so nice to be here” echoed through the tent before they set about discussing sexuality, […]
In northern Ghana, the unchecked felling of shea trees is placing the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of women at serious risk. Shea nut collection, a centuries-old tradition and a vital economic activity, is under threat as illegal logging intensifies across the region. MICHAEL SARPONG MFUM For more than 900,000 women in the Northern, Upper […]
Hundreds of women carry cross-border trade on their heads and backs every day at Kasumbalesa, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s second-busiest border crossing into Zambia. Their work keeps supply chains moving, but they endure extortion and harassment for work that gives little return. DENISE MAHEHO They call themselves “wowo” after the Chinese goods trucks that […]
MARCO SIMONCELLI| DAVIDE LEMMI | KHALIFA SAID Tanzanian authorities have pushed Maasai relocations since 2022, sparking condemnation from rights groups. With elections nearing, will pressure shift or deepen? The Maasai, an ethnic group indigenous to southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, have grazed livestock around Tanzania’s Lake Natron for generations. Park rangers from the Tanzania Wildlife […]