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."
North America is their top destination, followed by the UK, France, Germany and Spain in Western Europe. Nearly 60 percent of young Africans want to leave their countries because their governments are not reining in corruption, according to a new poll of youth across 16 African nations. They cited corruption as the biggest obstacle to […]
STUART BRAUN A majority of people across 22 countries are deeply concerned about the future of our planet. A new survey shows over 70% want to punish those who harm nature and the climate. A new survey of 22,000 people, drawn primarily from the G20 group of 19 major economies and the European Union and […]
Senegal has suspended mining activities along the Falémé river, which forms part of its southeastern border with Mali, in a bid to preserve the environment and protect public health. However, enforcing the ban won’t be easy. Artisanal gold mining is booming in Kédougou, a region in southeast Senegal where the Falémé river flows. Over the […]
The viral disease has swept through a number of African countries, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo. The EU said it would donate than 175,000 vaccine shots to the continent’s top health body. The African Union’s health authority has declared a public health emergency over an mpox outbreak on the continent. “With a heavy heart […]
RODNEY MUHUMUZA The young men perched on motorcycles looked dazed in the morning heat. But at the sight of a potential passenger, they furiously kick-started their machines and tried to outrace each other for the business. For tens of thousands of men in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, this is how to make a living. For others, […]
JUDE ATEMANKE Members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) have strongly condemned abuses during liturgical celebrations in the west African nation, urging priests and bishops to take “immediate action” to restore the dignity and sanctity of worship. In a statement issued on Aug. 15, the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin […]
‘When the war stopped, a new one started on women.’ MAYA MISIKIR Earlier this year, hundreds of women took to the streets of the northern Tigrayan city of Mekelle to protest the growing violence women are facing across the region – two years after the end of the civil war. The spark was the murder […]
France has made a key gesture of remembrance for the dozens of African troops shot dead on French army orders at the Thiaroye camp in Senegal during World War II. This comes as Paris seeks to ease tensions with former colonies over how their joint history is remembered. On 1 December 1944, colonial troops and […]
JOSUE MEHOUENOU Lilith Dorsey is an American citizen living in New Orleans, but it is in Benin that she could end her days to “feel closer to her homeland”. In the coming months, the author, dancer and filmmaker aims to take advantage of a new law in the West African state granting Beninese nationality to […]
KOFI AYIM It is possible to say that the loss of power and prestige of the paramount chief in Akuapem today as compared with the Akwamuhene or the Okyenhene in Akyem Abuakwa is due more to the work of the Basel Mission Society than to any other single factor. -M.A. Kwamena-Poh, Government and Politics in […]