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."
By Emma Batha Countries that have banned female genital mutilation (FGM) should allow less invasive practices such as small surgical nicks to girls’ genitalia as a compromise, two American gynecologists said on Monday. But campaigners against FGM strongly criticized the proposal, saying it would undermine global efforts to eradicate the internationally condemned ritual. At least […]
by Sella Oneko African countries are tired of the International Criminal Court (ICC). A number of them have made that clear. But is there any hope for strengthening the African Union’s own African Court? Yes, we know about the existence of this court, but it’s doing very little to protect human rights in Africa. That’s […]
By Justin Lynch A new humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Malakal, South Sudan, just days after an attack by government soldiers on a camp sheltering displaced people – the challenge of caring for tens of thousands of survivors. Around 18 people died in the violence that began on Wednesday night following growing ethnic tensions between […]
By Désiré Nimubona Samuel Okiror BUJUMBURA/KAMPALA, As meaningful talks elude the troubled east African nation, war fears grow. There’s been a flurry of high-profile visits to Burundi designed to find a settlement to the political crisis but little evidence yet that anything has been achieved. First came UN Security Council members, followed by US President […]
by Michael Morrow THREE female ‘sperm collectors’ are on the run from police after they allegedly picked up a man and raped him in a bid to ‘harvest’ his DNA. The Chronicle reports that authorities are searching for the trio after they allegedly abducted the hitchhiker from a park in the Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo pleaded not guilty Thursday to four counts of crimes against humanity at the start of his trial at the International Criminal Court. Gbagbo is the first ex-head of state to go on trial at the ICC. He is accused together with a former youth minister, […]
by Lawrence Freeman African leaders at the 26th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union held at the end of January in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia dealt the International Criminal Court-(ICC) another blow. Although the AU’s attack on the ICC was not fatal (yet), it demonstrated an increased scrutiny of the ICC’s racist and […]
By Obi Anyadike, Africa Editor NAIROBI, 28 January 2016 (IRIN) – Southern Africa is facing the threat of extensive crop failures this year as a result of record low rainfall in a region in which 29 million people already don’t have reliable access to enough affordable and nutritious food. “With little or no rain falling […]
Obi Anyadike Security has been intense over the last few weeks in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, with police and soldiers on the streets, vehicle searches, and round-ups of alleged Islamist militants.It’s the response to the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) attack in Burkina Faso on 15 January that left 30 people dead. Until the […]
ActionAid Ghana, a civil society organisation, has called for the intensification of education and the development of new advocacy strategies to fight the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The call comes as the world marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM on Saturday, on the theme “Achieving the new Global Goals through the Elimination […]