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."
Sierra Leone, Togo, Ghana, Nigeria and several more countries in West Africa are in the midst of an overlooked opioid crisis that’s crippling the population and devastating families. The drugs that are fueling this crisis aren’t made in makeshift labs but imported by the millions from India’s pharmaceutical industry. DIYA GUPTA For more than a […]
HELGA DICKOW In most multilingual African countries, language policy is a highly charged and controversial issue. It touches on regional identity, religion and political power – as is evident in Chad, in central Africa. Around 130 languages are spoken in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious Chad. The two official languages are Standard Arabic and French. Neither […]
The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has a fatality rate of up to 50 percent and no approved vaccine as yet. PRIYANKA SHANKAR The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the latest outbreak of a rare strain of the Ebola virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is a “public health emergency […]
STEVEN GORDON Anti-immigrant marches in several major South African cities (such as Tshwane and Johannesburg) in early May 2026 once again led to questions being asked about xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa. In the wake of the protests President Cyril Ramaphosa called on South Africans to embrace solidarity with their African neighbors. For their part, […]
BOUBA JALLOH President John Mahama wants to criminalize employers demanding sex in exchange for work. But can a new law — that falls into a legal grey zone — be enforced? President John Mahama’s call to criminalize so‑called “sex for jobs” marks one of the clearest signals yet that Ghana’s leadership is willing to confront […]
“They kept saying we had to go back to our country.” AUGUSTINE PASSILLY Sudanese authorities have deported thousands of South Sudanese from the country over the past year, driving abusive raids that have led to killings, family separations, confiscation of personal belongings, prolonged detention, and verbal harassment. The New Humanitarian spoke to six recent deportees […]
Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said he’s prepared to seek another five years in office if asked to do so after a referendum, highlighting a growing trend of term-limit evasion in Africa. MICHAEL J. KAVANAGH Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said he’s prepared to seek another five years in office if […]
A growing number of men across the continent say they are being promised jobs in Russia, only to be forced into the war. Some go as mercenaries, but many more are drawn unwittingly. MATTHEW MPOKE BIGG, JOHN ELIGON, & ZIMASA MATIWANE James Kamau Ndungu told only a few friends that he was heading to Russia. […]
MATTHEW LEE The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on former Congolese President Joseph Kabila for his alleged role in funding and providing political support to rebel groups operating in the east of his country. The Treasury and State departments announced Thursday, April 30 that they had targeted Kabila, who served as Congo’s president from 2001 […]
Uganda is set to pass a foreign agents bill, whose sweeping provisions could be used to imprison journalists critically reporting on economics, foreign policy, or elections for up to 20 years, limit foreign media funding to about $100,000, and subject newsrooms to intrusive state oversight. The Protection of Sovereignty Bill says it aims to register […]