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 Adam Green Donors are distancing themselves from Uganda after President Yoweri Museveni signed a new law imposing heavy penalties for homosexuality. Their decisions will be watched closely by other African countries where homophobic sentiment runs high. The signing ceremony on Monday, which follows years of debate since a draft bill was tabled in 2009, […]
Gambia’s top judge has been sacked by President Yahya Jammeh after just six months on the job, a judicial official said on Wednesday. Ghanaian-born chief justice Mabel Yamoa Agyemang “has been relieved of her appointment effective Monday [3 February ]”, the senior judicial officer told AFP, without giving a reason. Agyemang replaced Nigerian-born Joseph Wowo, […]
The revelation that Tanzanian MPs voted themselves a $98,000 (£60,000) package each to be paid at the end of their parliamentary term has led to shock. The send-off money, a 274% increase on the amount MPs received in 2010, was endorsed by the treasury at the end of last year, but only reported this week. […]
President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday decorated the service chiefs with their new ranks and directed them to strive to end the Boko Haram The service chiefs and their new ranks are Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh; Chief of Army Staff, insurgency in the North-east. Lieutenant-General Kenneth Tobia Minimah; Chief of Naval […]
By Nina de Vries Sierra Leone’s National Power Authority [NPA], which is responsible for providing the country with power, has deployed a new device that can detect faulty underground cables. The hope is to help provide electricity around-the-clock through the use of this equipment. It will have a great impact on Sierra Leoneons, who face […]
by Elias Ntungwe Ngalame West African states in the Niger River Basin are seeking to tackle climate risks and reduce poverty by constructing three hydropower dams in the next five years. In late November, the Council of Ministers of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA), meeting in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde, endorsed an environmental and climate action […]
by Carlotta Gall BANGUI, Central African Republic — When the killing began, Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga did what many would have expected of him: He opened his church to hundreds of Christian families fleeing the Muslim militias hunting them. But he also provided refuge to an unusual friend and partner: the most senior Muslim cleric here, […]
UK business tycoon Richard Branson has called on companies and tourists to boycott Uganda after its parliament approved a bill to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts. It was against his conscience to support a country which carried out a “dreadful witch hunt against the gay community”, he said on his website. The bill proposes […]
By Bartholomäus Grill The skirt? Much too short! And those loud colors! Two older women at a table in the back of the room begin to whisper to each other. A stout woman is standing at the front of the room. She is wearing a tomato-red dress and a knit bolero jacket in cobalt blue. […]
Ghana has been ranked 63rd out of 177 countries surveyed in this year’s global corruption perception index (CPI). According to the index released yesterday by Transparency International, the country scored 46 out of 100 on the scale from zero to 100. But the government has reacted to the corruption index, saying the report might not […]