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."
‘These days a son can even kill his father over money.’ SAMUEL MEYERSON In the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda, a four-year outbreak of violent livestock raiding is finally subsiding – the result of a ruthless, informer-driven disarmament campaign by the army. But even as stability returns, divisions arising from class tensions, inter generational friction, […]
Undocumented workers often pay taxes that help fund programs like Social Security — even if they can’t collect from them in the future. TARA SIEGEL BERNARD The Social Security Administration receives billions in free money each year from an unexpected source: undocumented immigrants. This group paid an estimated $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes in […]
BALEW DEMISSIE The G20, which evolved from a meeting of finance ministers in 1999 to a summit of heads of state and government in 2008 in response to the international financial crisis, has become a key forum for international economic cooperation. Originally, the G20 focused on macroeconomic policy to prevent a global depression. Since then, […]
AGGREY MUTAMBO Somalia is turning into an open canvas for the longstanding Egypt-Ethiopia feud. For long, the two countries bickered over whether the dam on the Blue Nile that Ethiopia was putting up should be controlled to ensure sufficient water reaches Cairo, but Ethiopia went on to fill the dam, forcing Cairo to quit any […]
Large infrastructure gaps are creating a new digital divide TWO DECADES ago, a digital revolution transformed the lives and livelihoods of millions of people as mobile phones swept across sub-Saharan Africa. A region where a tiny fraction of the population had landline phones or bank accounts was able to leapfrog old telephone monopolies and infrastructure. […]
Portugal this at the end of April marked the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution – a pivotal moment in the country’s history and its relationship with its African colonies. DAVID COFFEY On 25 April 1974 – after almost half a century of dictatorship – the military coup opened a new era. Led by low-ranking […]
GERALD C. KOINYENEH Nearly one million Liberians live in extreme poverty and 2.5 million live in absolute poverty, says the World Bank in its latest poverty assessment report on Liberia. “The report finds that nearly 6 out of every 10 Liberians live in poverty based on the national poverty line. And in the context of […]
JOE BAVIER & BOUREIMA BALIMA Days after Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger announced last month they were quitting the West Africa political union ECOWAS, Burkina Faso’s military ruler Ibrahim Traore was already naming his next target: the region’s CFA franc currency. “It’s not just the currency. Anything that maintains us in slavery, we’ll break those […]
STEPHANIE BUSARI Days after the democratically elected president of Niger was deposed in a military coup, thousands of supporters of the takeover thronged the French embassy in the nation’s capital to deliver an unmistakable message to their former colonial power and its Western allies. As President Mohamed Bazoum was being held captive by his soldiers […]
UCHENNA EKWO Whatever anyone thinks about Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States remains the most dominant political force in the country for about a decade and counting. Over the course of his entry into politics without any previous experience, Trump has mastered how to manipulate the rich, the poor, and the so […]