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."
Thamsanqa Mothobi was going about his life in Johannesburg when he was carjacked and taken to an informal settlement where robbers accessed his mobile banking apps. “They had guns and demanded the PIN codes for my apps. They increased the withdrawal limits in my accounts and emptied them. I was only released in the early […]
Sonko is the highest-ranking official under former dictator Yahya Jammeh, to stand trial for widespread rights abuses. The trial of Ousman Sonko, a former interior minister of The Gambia (not to be confused with Senegalese politician, Ousmane Sonko) began Monday January 8 in a federal court in Switzerland. It is one of a handful of […]
Umaro Sissoco Embalo appoints Rui Duarte de Barros as new premier JAMES TASAMBA Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo on Wednesday December 20 fired Prime Minister Geraldo Martins, just a week after appointing him to the position, and replaced him with an economist and seasoned politician. Martins was reappointed prime minister on Dec. 12 after assuming […]
Former President Edgar Lungu has decided to take legal action against the state’s decision to reject his application seeking the reinstatement of retirement benefits. Lungu, who served as Zambia’s Sixth President, has filed a Certificate of Urgency with the Lusaka High Court, aiming to expedite the filing of his petition during the court’s Christmas vacation. […]
MOISE M. BAHATI Burundi’s Supreme Court on Friday, December 8, convicted former prime minister Allain Guillaume Bunyoni for plotting to kill the president, and sentenced him to life in prison. Some of his properties, four houses and 14 vehicles including a Hummer, will also be confiscated. Bunyoni, an army general who served as the police […]
Benin President Patrice Talon on Thursday December 21, 2023, called for relations to be swiftly re-established between his country and neighboring Niger, which is now controlled by military rulers after a coup. In his annual address to the nation before parliament, Talon expressed the “wish to see relations between Benin and the countries where coups […]
Several hundred of young Malawi men have left for Israel to work on farms left deserted by an exodus sparked by the Gaza war, the labor ministry said on Monday, November 27. A first flight carrying 221 youths left the southern African nation for Israel on Saturday November 25 and more would be sent soon, […]
A court in Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott on Monday December 4 sentenced former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to five years in prison for having abused his position to amass an ill-gotten fortune. Aziz, who ruled the pivotal country between North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa between 2008 and 2019, fell into disgrace under successor and current […]
RUTH OLUROUNBI Nigeria says it sees “immediate” multi-billion-dollar investment flows from Saudi Arabia after it signed an agreement with the kingdom to establish a business council that could see the middle eastern nation funding several sectors of the West African country, including agriculture, oil and gas, energy, telecommunications and technologies. The two nations agreed to […]
FRANCIS KOKUTSE Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana agreed Thursday November 16 to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Accra Reparation Conference adds to the growing demands for reparations after about 12 million Africans were forcefully taken […]