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."
Zimbabwe on Monday May 16 sought the support of the European Union to sell off US$600 million worth of ivory it has accumulated due to the global ban on the sale of tusks. International trade in ivory has been banned since 1989 under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and […]
Pharmacists in Uganda are encountering a common dilemma: customers who bypass doctor visits and ask for antibiotics directly, without a prescription. Antibiotics can be effective in treating some bacterial infections, and this is generating antibiotic resistance, which doctors say is turning into a silent epidemic. “Only five of the more than 25 customers I receive […]
TAMASIN FORD The tiny archipelago of São Tomé was once the world’s biggest exporter of cocoa, but now it focuses on quality over quantity because it can no longer compete with larger nations. “We decided to produce organic cocoa only,” President Carlos Vila Nova tells the BBC, explaining that buyers have to place their orders […]
Costa Rican Vice President Madam Epsy Campbell Barr Wednesday wept uncontrollably in the Elimina Castle slave dungeon as she relived the trauma her ancestors, victims of the transatlantic slave trade, endured. Madam Barr, Costa Rica’s first Black Vice-President, and Dr Natalia Kanem, UN Under-Secretary General, and Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) […]
EVELYNE AKA “That one’s a DC-10, next to it you have a Fokker 28, over there are Boeing 737s…” Aziz Alibhai is showing the visitor his big love — an astonishing collection of plane wrecks that he wants to turn into an atypical tourist attraction. Airliners in various stages of genteel decline lie on his […]
FRANCIS AKHALBEY A Chinese man who was filmed beating men who had been tied to a tree was on Tuesday April 19 sentenced to 20 years in prison for torture by a Rwandan court, BBC reported. The Chinese man, identified as Sun Shujun, is said to have been operating a mine in Rwanda’s Rutsiro district at the time […]
ABDELLAH CHEBALLAH It’s the Algerian start-up that made good: despite the country’s notoriously complex business climate, taxi and home-delivery firm Yassir has millions of users and is expanding across Africa. “We made it our mission to create a model of success that was genuinely, 100-percent Algerian, to develop local talent and show that it’s possible […]
YVONNE CHEPKWONY The National Police Service seeks to recruit 5,000 police constables in a mass recruitment drive to be held on Thursday, March 24. The service says it is targeting holders of at least a D+ (plus) in KCSE, but shouldn’t be university graduates to avert inevitable dispute over salaries. John ole Moyaki, the Head […]
For Mariam Chabi Talata, legalizing abortion and educating girls are essential first steps in giving women control of their future JILL FILIPOVIC Years ago, Mariam Chabi Talata says, she knew a girl who got in some trouble. The girl thought she could not tell her parents, and she could not go to hospital, because the […]
MARY PRENDERGAST Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa. The continent is the cradle of human origins and ingenuity, and with each new fossil and archaeological discovery, we learn more about our shared African past. Such research tends to focus on when our species, Homo […]