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."
PAMELA APPEA Over 1,000 Ghanaians in the U.S. including religious leaders, civic and cultural organizations packed into the New York Society for Ethical Culture Adler Hall, on September 25 in a Town Hall event with H.E. John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana. The event was hosted by the Permanent Mission of Ghana […]
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are stepping up their joint media push with Tafouk TV, a new television channel aimed at challenging Western coverage and promoting the three military-led Sahel states’ own account of events. Broadcasting from Bamako and available through Canal+, the channel is part of a wider media network being developed by the […]
KHALID ABDELAZIZ Army and paramilitary RSF have been fighting since 2023 RSF has been trying to establish a parallel government US has said neither side represents legitimate governance Conflict has caused a massive humanitarian crisis A US ceasefire proposal to pause Sudan’s civil war could push the country towards a Libya-style […]
ZVAMAIDA MURWIRA GOVERNMENT has, to date, disbursed US$508 million in Treasury Bonds, while it has made cash payments of US$12.6 million to white former commercial farmers whose land was acquired during the country’s Land Reform Program. The compensation, which has seen 623 farmers paid in three batches, marks a significant milestone towards resolving the […]
Burundi is importing growing amounts of goods from Rwanda despite closing their common land border in January 2024, offering a striking example of how commercial needs can continue even as political relations deteriorate. Rwanda’s domestic exports to Burundi reached US$13.39 million (about Rwf 20 billion) in the second quarter of 2026 covering April, May, and […]
-Call for Stronger Links Between Universities, Jobs and Economic Growth September 25, 2026 African higher education leaders, government officials, development partners and industry representatives have called for a shared continental approach to transforming universities into stronger drivers of innovation, employment and economic development. The call emerged from the inaugural Higher Education Transformation Convening in Accra, […]
Extreme heat generated by this year’s El Nino is projected to cause up to 67,000 additional deaths across the Sahel over the next six months, with Nigeria facing the highest death toll of any country in the world. The Climate Impact Lab, a research group based at the University of Chicago, predicts there will be […]
MALU CURSINO Enslaved African people were branded with an identifying mark that included an emblem of the British Crown, according to new research by a project documenting British involvement in the slave trade. Prof William Pettigrew, who led the Register of British Slave Traders research, described the imprinting as a “dramatic and harrowing” symbol of […]
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program. MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN & PRANAV BASKAR Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at […]
A dramatic cross-border operation saw Zambian police storm into Malawi last week, hunting down a gang accused of rustling 20 cattle from a farmer’s kraal — in a heist that left the victim counting devastating losses worth 116,500 Zambian Kwacha. The animals vanished without a trace from Kabwanda Village in Chief Tembwe, Chama district, sometime […]