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."
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 […]
KITSEPILE NYATHI CHINA on Thursday October 26, handed over to Zimbabwe a new $100 million parliament building that Harare says is a symbol of deepening relations between the two countries. The imposing structure on the outskirts of the capital Harare was built on a space of 33000 square meters and comprises a six-story office complex […]
Nigeria’s lawmakers on Thursday November 2, approved the new government’s first supplemental budget, which includes huge allocations for SUVs and houses for the president, his wife and other public officials, sparking anger and criticism from citizens in one of the world’s poorest countries. In the budget presented to lawmakers to supplement the country’s expenditures for […]
MOISE M. BAHATI African governments have been urged to fast-track the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in order to solve food security issues that affect more than 20 per cent of the continent’s 1.4 billion people. The faster implementation of the AfCFTA and supporting the agricultural value chain are two of […]
KITSEPILE NYATHI Zimbabwe has introduced a new gold-backed digital currency as it battles to stop re-dollarization, which President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government fears will spell doom for the country’s fragile economy. The country’s central bank said the digital tokens, also known as Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), that are dominated in milligrams, can be used by both individuals […]