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."
JAMES INGHAM A United Nations judge has been jailed for six years and four months for forcing a woman to work as a domestic slave. Lydia Mugambe, 50, was studying for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford when police discovered she had a young Ugandan woman at her home carrying out unpaid […]
Discussions with the Central African country come as the Trump administration looks for more countries willing to accept deportees as part of a sweeping crackdown. ABDI LATIF DAHIR Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the United States, the central African nation’s foreign minister said late Sunday, May […]
Flights will operate three times a week from London Gatwick Ascend Airways has just launched flights between London and Sierra Leone – marking the first time the two countries have been connected directly in more than a decade. The airline, a subsidiary airline of Dublin-based Avia Solutions Group which launched in April 2024, will operate […]
Canada’s Fortuna Mining is eyeing expansion into Guinea after exiting Burkina Faso, where it faced regulatory instability and high security costs because of jihadist threats, its CEO told Reuters. Fortuna, which is not currently established in Guinea, is looking for gold mining opportunities there, conducting site visits and meeting with authorities, Ganoza said. “We find […]
ANDREW WASIKE Three people have been arrested after a shoe was thrown at President William Ruto during a public rally. Analysts link the outburst to growing discontent over rising taxes, increased cost of living and unkept pledges. Kenya’s President William Ruto narrowly avoided injury on Sunday, May 4, when a shoe was hurled at him […]
Two Belgian teenagers were charged Tuesday, April 15, with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known species. Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijckx, two 19-year-olds who were arrested on April 5 with 5,000 […]
On April 16, Cameroon’s Minister Delegate for Finance, Yaouba Abdoulaye, revealed that customs authorities at Douala International Airport had intercepted two drug shipments, totaling 70 kilograms. The drugs, a mixture of methamphetamines, ephedrine, and cocaine, were concealed in air compressors shipped from South Africa. They were carried by a RwandAir flight and were hidden in […]
Zambian customs officials said on Saturday, April 19 they had arrested an Indian national who had attempted to smuggle more than $2 million in cash and gold worth $500,000 through the country’s main airport. The 27-year-old was on his way to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates when his attempt was thwarted by a multi-agency […]
FRANCK KUWONU Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing on a painful past. But Gorée is not stuck in history; it’s an inhabited island, where heritage preservation, […]
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has warned ministers against dozing off during meetings, attributing their lack of attentiveness to “indulgence” and an absence of self-control. “In cabinet somebody’s sleeping at 10 hours – the question is where were they… if you can start conking there? To me that is a crime, a serious crime,” Hichilema said […]