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."
Like 95 per cent of women in her Ugandan community, Margaret Chepoteltel underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) as a child, subjecting her to lifelong health problems. Today, she is raising awareness of the dangers of FGM, as part of a UN-backed programme. ‘I have never felt so much pain in my entire life’ “Today, I […]
AGGREY MUTAMBO Somalia has sent out an appeal for help to address the escalating impact of drought in the country’s Gedo region, where hundreds of people requiring food and water rations. International and regional humanitarian bodies have raised the alarm on the hunger situation in the Horn of Africa and region extending into South Sudan […]
YUSUF AKINPELU Kelechi Ndukwe, a Nigerian-American, has been appointed the commander of a U.S. Navy ship, USS Halsey (DDG-97), described as an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. He is the first Nigerian-American to reach the height. The U.S. Mission in Nigeria Thursday April 8, 2021 congratulated Mr Ndukwe, an alumnus of the University of Notre […]
Six-millennia-old skeleton of child also unearthed during dig in Judean Desert by Israeli archeologists Israeli archaeologists have unearthed two dozen Dead Sea scroll fragments from a remote cave in the Judean Desert, the first discovery of such Jewish religious texts in more than half a century. “For the first time in approximately 60 years, archaeological […]
The President of Niger demonstrated exceptional leadership and respect for democracy amidst an unprecedented combination of challenges The 2020 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has been awarded to Mahamadou Issoufou, President of Niger, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced today following a meeting of its independent Prize Committee. President Mahamadou Issoufou served two five-year […]
Children as young as 11 are being beheaded in Mozambique, Britain-based aid group Save the Children said Tuesday March 16, as part of an Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands and forced many magnitudes more from their homes. Save the Children said it had spoken to displaced families who described “horrifying scenes” of murder, including […]
Kenya has lifted the ban on imports of Ugandan and Tanzanian maize with strict conditions on exporters as the country seeks to curb shipping in of the cancer-causing aflatoxin on imported crop. Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday that all stakeholders dealing in maize imports would be required to be registered, the consignments coming in must […]
NINA TOTENBERG The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday March 4, 2021 made it more difficult for undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for a long time to fight deportation. The court’s 5-to-3 ruling came in the case of a man who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years but who had used […]
MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR Ghanaian filmmaker Leila Djansi is not impressed with the sequel to the 1988 classic ‘Coming to America’, describing it as mildly offensive. In a Facebook post, the American-based filmmaker said she was disappointed in some of the scenes from the Hollywood movie, saying they were discriminatory and disrespectful to Africa and its […]
CARLEY PETESCH Nearly 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, the third and largest delivery so far to an African country by the global COVAX initiative, which was created to ensure that low- and middle-income countries have fair access to vaccines. The COVAX program shipped 3.94 million doses of […]