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."
ZEINAB MOHAMMED SALIH A demand by Sudan’s Hausa community to be recognized as traditional custodians of some land in Blue Nile state has erupted into deadly violence. Clashes broke out late July with members of another ethnic group that considers itself native to the area. More than 100 mainly unarmed people were killed, and thousands […]
FAUSTINE NGILA Tanzania is testing its new electric rail line as part of its commitment to reducing carbon emissions by moving away from diesel powered trains used by its regional peers. Electric trains started plying the Dar es Salaam – Morogoro on July 4, a 300km distance after the government awarded a $1.92 billion contract […]
The law supposedly protects widowed women, but patriarchal culture and colonial-era legal influences often win out, leaving women in poverty CAROLINE KIMEU Within months of the death of her husband in 2014, Doreen Kajuju Kimathi, from Meru, eastern Kenya, was told that his bank accounts had been frozen, and she had been forced out of […]
JAYSIM HANSPAL Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera stripped vice-president Saulos Chilima of all delegated powers on Tuesday after he was named in a $150m corruption scandal. In a move to combat corruption, President Chakwera is following up on a recent report by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and fired senior officials, including inspector general of police George […]
FAUSTINE NGILA A tooth. A state funeral. An apology. About 61 years after the assassination of DRC’s freedom hero Patrice Lumumba under the backing of the country’s colonial master Belgium, preparations are underway for his official funeral in Kinshasa. All that remains of the country’s hero is a golden tooth after his mutilated body was […]
The UN Security Council on Tuesday urged greater action to stop piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, which has become by far the world’s riskiest waters for maritime kidnappings. A Security Council resolution — approved unanimously despite high tensions between veto-wielding Russia and the West — said it “strongly condemns” the spike of piracy in […]
NAKISANZE SEGAWA Godfrey Kizito takes a break from his busy shoe repair shop every day so he can enjoy his favorite snack, a vegetable and egg omelet rolled in a freshly prepared chapati known as a Rolex. But for the past few weeks, this daily ritual has given him neither the satisfaction nor the sustenance […]
CLEMENT UWIRINGIYIMANA Rwanda expects the first group of 50 asylum seekers to be transferred from Britain by the end of May, a government spokesperson said on Thursday May 19. In April the British government announced plans to send people seeking asylum to the East African country, but earlier this month said it expected lawyers to […]
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 […]