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."
An Australian oil and gas exploration company says it has found high quality natural gas deposits in northeastern Zimbabwe, after months of exploration. Invictus Energy announced that the analysis of samples it collected last year in the north of Zimbabwe, near the border with Mozambique, “definitively proves the presence of hydrocarbons in multiple reservoirs pay […]
UN experts are deeply concerned over delays in reaching an agreement on the restructuring of Zambia’s debt and its corresponding negative human rights impact on peoples’ lives. “We are worried that despite positive reforms undertaken by the Government of Zambia, the delays in sovereign debt restructuring compromise its ability to mobilize and maximize resources for […]
The west African country has cleared its use in children aged between five months and three years FAUSTINE NGILA An Oxford University-developed vaccine against malaria has been approved and cleared for use in Ghana, its first such approval in the world. R21/Matrix-M has shown great success during its trials in Burkina Faso. While the WHO’s […]
Income inequality varies widely across countries “Night and day my heart is bleeding,” sings the Zimbabwean artiste Winky D on his new album. “When I look at the poor and needy, everything gone with the greedy.” It seems the authorities do not share his concern. Last month the police stormed the stage mid-performance and shut […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tuesday April 25, his ruling ANC party had resolved that South Africa should quit the International Criminal Court, which in March issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The ICC issued an arrest warrant against Putin in March meaning Pretoria, due to host Brazil, Russia, India, China and South […]
“Heirs of Slavery” will lobby the UK government, alongside Caribbean nations, for a formal apology and reparative justice AURORA ALMENDRAL The slave trade helped make their families rich. But, two centuries later, a handful of British aristocrats, part of a new organization called Heirs of Slavery, are lobbying the UK government to offer a formal […]
ZEENAT HANSROD Belgian researchers report that 45 percent of deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire in the past decade is the result of unregulated cocoa production. Researchers from the Belgian university of Louvain found that 45 percent of the destruction of forest in Côte d’Ivoire between 2000 and 2019 was the result of unregulated cocoa production. Tropical […]
MARC JONES, RACHEL SAVAGE, KARIN STROHECKER & LIBBY GEORGE The record number of developing nations at risk of a debt crisis will be high on the agenda next week when central bankers, finance ministers and political leaders convene for the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund (IMF) spring meetings. Ballooning inflation, escalating borrowing costs […]
VITALIO ANGULA The administrator of the National Energy Administration of China, Zhang Jinhua, on Friday March 31, paid a visit to Namibia President Hage Geingob. The visit is aimed at establishing cooperation in the area of green hydrogen production. Namibia is positioning itself as a future green hydrogen producer to attract investment from the globe’s […]
When US Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Zambia on Friday March 29, for the final stop of her week-long trip across Africa, she touched down at an airport that’s doubled in size and features glittering new terminals. Rather than a symbol of promising local development, it’s a reminder of China’s deep influence. Beijing financed […]