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."
ARIANA FIGUEROA The Biden administration announced Thursday May 9, it’s proposing changes to the asylum system that would allow immigration officials to reject asylum seekers who have a criminal record that poses a threat to national security or public safety and quickly remove them. Those changes will occur during the initial screening stages, a senior […]
Global HIV, viral hepatitis epidemics and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to pose significant public health challenges, causing 2.5 million deaths each year, according to a new WHO report – Implementing the global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, 2022-2030. New data show that STIs are increasing in many regions. […]
BASILLIOH RUKANGA Benin has prevented neighboring Niger from using its port to export its first crude oil, as a border dispute rages between the two nations. President Patrice Talon’s government is demanding that landlocked Niger reopens its side of the border if it wants to use Benin’s ports. Mr Talon accused Niger of treating its […]
BOUREIMA BALIMA & ABDEL-KADER MAZOU On a hospital bed in Niger, a 96-year-old woman lay motionless attached to a drip – one of thousands of possible victims of West Africa’s worst heatwave in living memory, which a report said on Thursday was linked to fossil fuel-driven climate change. In late March and early April, days […]
VITALIO ANGULA Environmentalists in Namibia have accused local wildlife officials of hiding the real extent of rhino poaching in the Etosha National Park, which holds the highest concentration of black rhinos in the world. The Ministry of Environment recently acknowledged that rhino killings at the park quadrupled during the first quarter of 2024. Namibian police […]
The Zambian government on Monday April 15 stopped the issuance of cordwood permits for charcoal production in an effort to control the rampant deforestation. Minister of Green Economy and Environment Collins Nzovu said in a statement that the decision will initially affect three districts where charcoal production is rampant in the central and southern provinces, […]
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised on Monday April 22 to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks as the upper house of parliament finally passed required legislation, delayed for weeks by attempts to alter the plan. Sunak said the government had booked commercial charter planes and trained staff to take […]
GLORIA ARADI Togo has delayed parliamentary and regional elections amid tensions following controversial constitutional reform. The reform approved by lawmakers late last month replaced the presidential system with a parliamentary one. It also hands executive power to the prime minister, reducing the presidency to a symbolic role. Opposition parties have rejected the reform, fearing it […]
Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 imposes penalties of up to life in prison for consensual same-sex relations and possible death in ‘aggravated homosexuality’ cases. Uganda’s Constitutional Court has rejected a petition seeking to annul an anti-gay law that has been roundly condemned internationally as one of the toughest in the world. The court found on Wednesday April […]
Mariama Sonko’s voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her lecture was punctuated by the thud of falling fruit. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of a 115,000-strong rural women’s rights movement in West Africa, […]