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."
Commemoration prompts renewed calls for an investigation into the killing of African soldiers by the French army in 1944. Senegal has commemorated the 80th anniversary of a colonial-era massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War II and were shot by French soldiers in 1944 for demanding fair treatment and payment on […]
JUSTICE MALALA The US president-elect needs to be sensitized to the fact that if he fails to reauthorize AGOA, it would greatly diminish America’s ability to counter his nemesis China, and to a lesser extent Russia, writes Justice Malala. Like their counterparts around the globe, African leaders and investors are trying to figure out what […]
At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple crop of corn. After multiple cholera outbreaks in the southern African nation resulting from extreme weather and poor sanitation, flies were largely seen as something to exterminate, not […]
LAMECK MASINA Blantyre, Malawi — Refugees at Malawi’s only refugee camp, Dzaleka, have started receiving their first-ever insurance payouts to mitigate the impact of the El Nino weather pattern, which has destroyed their crops. The payouts, amounting to nearly $408,000 in total, were facilitated by the African Risk Capacity Group and KfW Development Bank, after […]
HENNIE STANDER The EU says it will not renew a fishing agreement between Brussels and Dakar following “shortcomings” over illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The accord between the EU and Senegal, in force since 2019, was due to expire at midnight on Sunday, November 17. Jean-Marc Pisani, EU ambassador for West Africa said the agreement […]
For far too long the Zambian and other African governments have prioritized urban over rural communities. HARRY VERHOEVEN As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku over how to finance climate action remain gridlocked, Southern Africans are learning that some “renewable energy” might not be renewable after all in an age of […]
JACK THOMPSON Rice borders on the sacred in Sierra Leone. Unless a meal includes rice, people say, you haven’t eaten at all. But as prices soar, consumers in the West African nation are giving up other food to buy it. That’s a major reason why 83% of the population is food insecure, according to the […]
CAI NEBE Most Cameroonians have only known one leader: President Paul Biya. But, at 91, he is rarely seen in public. Opposition figures worry that simmering conflicts may worsen after Biya’s reign. When Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, landed in Yaounde after weeks abroad, a crowd greeted him. Biya was filmed shaking hands with officials, and […]
Since it took control over the country in a July 2023 coup, Niger’s military junta has been cutting ties with France and forging stronger ones with fellow juntas in Burkina Faso and Mali. One example of this shift is Tuesday’s – October 15 – rebranding of a major avenue in Niamey after Djibo Bakary – […]
Baudelaire Mieu Ivory Coast has raised the price it pays farmers for their cocoa above Ghana, even as growers in both countries will continue to receive far less than the global market. The world’s top producer of the chocolate-making ingredient increased the farmgate price by 20% to 1,800 CFA francs ($3.06) per kilogram for the […]