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."
KATHY SHORT A court in South Africa last month ruled that U.N. experts can intervene in a class action lawsuit against mining giant Anglo American over lead poisoning in Zambia. South African and British lawyers filed the lawsuit on behalf of about 140,000 Zambian children and women whose health was allegedly damaged by a colonial-era […]
CELESTINE KARONEY Rwanda’s Salima Mukansanga hopes that being selected to referee at the men’s World Cup, the first time women are doing so in 92 years of the competition, will open doors for other aspiring female officials in Africa. Earlier this year, she became the first woman to take charge of a match at the […]
Less than 1% of used clothing gets recycled into new garments, overwhelming countries like Ghana with discards. NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON, EKOW DONTOH, & DHWANI PANDYA Tangled coils of waterlogged clothes roll like carcasses in the waves along the coast of Ghana, one of the world’s biggest importers of used clothing. The castoffs arriving by the […]
Long viewed as a multicultural and inclusive nation, Canada admitted recently that its immigration system is tinged with racism and concern has risen over high rejection rates for African students. “I have met people who have had their visas refused more than five times,” even though they had been accepted by Canadian universities, says Serge […]
KOFI AYIM For the past years, Afrochella has gradually organized events in the last week of December. Now in its 6th year, the cultural festival entity plans to storm Ghana with added value and expanded cultural extravaganza. Founded in 2017 by a group of young Ghanaians living both in Ghana and the U.S., the yearly […]
SIMON JESSOP, KATE ABNETT, VIRGINIA FURNESS Finance took center stage at the COP27 climate talks on Wednesday November 9, with U.N. experts publishing a list of projects worth $120 billion that investors could back to help poorer countries cut emissions and adapt to the impacts of global warming. A $3 billion water transfer project between […]
RYAN TRUSCOTT Conservationists on São Tomé, a tropical island that is home to a rich diversity of plants, birds, and butterflies, have launched a project to help local farmers breed butterflies to boost incomes and incentivize the protection of the island’s forests. Under a pilot project three farmers on the island, located around 200 kilometers […]
ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE Illegal gold mining is destroying tracts of pristine rain forest in Congo’s Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site meant to be a haven for the endangered mammal nicknamed Africa’s unicorn, environmental organizations warned on Tuesday, October 18. Industrial activities are supposed to be banned in the 13,000 square kilometers of […]
Unifying the cocoa sector in four West African countries could be on the cards after Cameroon and Nigeria officially applied for membership in the Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI). “Cameroon and Nigeria both represent about 15 percent of world production; if they join Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, that would be 75 percent of world production,” […]
Researchers in Botswana and South Africa, who separately identified the COVID-19 omicron variant, are the winners of the 2022 German Africa Award. Virologist Sikhulile Moyo in Botswana and South Africa-based bioinformatics scientist Tulio de Oliveira have won this year’s German Africa prize for their work identifying the COVID-19 variant omicron. Through their research and by […]