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."
GABRIELLE EMANUEL One of the crowning achievements in global health is at risk of coming undone. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of children who die before they hit their 5th birthday dropped by half — from nearly 10 million deaths a year to under 5 million deaths a year. What brought about this remarkable […]
“As Tanzanians, we are going to reclaim our country. Whoever wants to support us needs to know that.” GUILLAUME ANTIGNAC A young man stumbles along a street with a bullet hole in his cheek, as blood spills from his mouth and nose. In another, a man is lying against a wall, holding his bloodstained t-shirt […]
REBECCA CAIRNS One of the fastest ways to fly from Nairobi, Kenya, to Marrakech, Morocco, is via Paris, France. Despite being on the same continent, around 3,700 miles apart, the two destinations have no direct flights. It’s not just these two metropolises: many of the continent’s capitals and largest cities have no direct flights, or […]
Land restoration in Burkina Faso’s Centre-Ouest and Kadiogo regions is women’s work. Here, women have made fertilizer trees their indispensable allies in reviving farmland. Thanks to these nitrogen-fixing and shade-providing trees, they’re bringing degraded soils back to life. In Cassou and Bazoulé communes in Centre-Ouest, local women are breathing new life into […]
NAIMA SAWAYA For many countries in crisis, brain drain can feel like an unbreakable loop. Armed conflict, climate shocks and economic downturn drive out local experts who take with them the know-how that is essential to reversing the crisis. So, the crisis continues. And the brain drain intensifies. But what if there was a way to […]
JOSEPHINE MAHACHI|SILJA FROHLICH|ISAAC KALEDZI The US military is urging African countries to be more responsible for their own security as the Trump administration focuses on domestic policies. Could the move fuel militant groups and undo counter terrorism progress? Africa should take greater ownership of its own security challenges. That was the message recently communicated by […]
The French language and a CFA currency tying 14 countries to France’s treasury continue to have big effects. SHOLA LAWAL After more than six decades, French troops completed their withdrawal from Chad late January before a January 31 deadline, the latest blow to France’s shrinking military hold in its former West and Central Africa strongholds. […]
ISAAC KALEDZI BRICS nations have concluded their meeting in the Russian city of Kazan, resolving to deepen economic ties. Some analysts say BRICS offers Africa a role in changing the global order, which also presents some risks. Egypt and Ethiopia have for the first time participated in a BRICS summit following an expansion to its […]
NELSON NATURINDA Yoweri Museveni’s date of birth was always a subject of debate due to a lack of records. Then his family landed on September 15 as the month he was brought to this earth some 80 years ago. Now an octogenarian, he plays fit-as-fiddle, sometimes appearing in short videos doing press-ups. And late in […]
KOFI A. BOATENG At a meeting of Ghana’s Inter Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) in Accra on Thursday March 7, 2024, two of the forty-two attendees asked the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs. Jean Mensa, questions on the implementation of the Representation of the People Amendment Act 2006 (ROPAA) for the 2024 elections, slated […]