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."
SARAH JOHNSON The ECOWAS court of justice has ordered the West African country to criminalize female genital mutilation after hearing the case of a woman brutally forced to undergo the practice As Kadijatu Balaima Allieu walked to a neighbor’s house in her village in Sierra Leone, she had no idea that what was about to […]
JEAN FERNAND KOENA President Faustin-Archange Touadera confirms he will seek a third term, despite a constitutional overhaul that has drawn sharp criticism. Opposition groups fear he wants to stay in power for life. President Faustin-Archange Touadera’s promise to rebuild the country, and his nomination for the Presidency by his United Hearts Movement (MCU) comes at […]
NICOLAS NEGOCE Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has announced he will run for a fourth term in October’s election. In a statement, the 83-year-old said his health was not an issue and his candidacy was driven by a need to “preserve national stability amid ongoing security and economic challenges”. Ouattara argues a new constitution approved […]
ISAAC KALEDZI As Kenya’s youth keep pushing for political and social change, they risk paying a steep personal price. Deadly clashes with police, emotional trauma and anxiety have become their new realities. On June 25, Wendy, a young Kenyan woman, joined hundreds of demonstrators in Nairobi to protest the death of Albert Ojwang, a 31-year-old […]
EMMANUEL AKINWOTU Nigeria’s government says it will resist pressure from the Trump administration to accept deportees from Venezuela and other third countries. In an interview with Nigeria’s Channels TV on Friday, July 11, Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said the U.S. was pressuring several African nations to accept foreign nationals whom the U.S. wants to deport. […]
OUGNA CAMARA Guinea’s interim parliament proposed that presidential term limits be extended, months before the country is scheduled to hold elections after four years of military rule. The National Transitional Council wants the West African nation’s constitution to allow the president to serve for seven years, instead of five, with a limit of two terms, […]
CHRIS EWOKOR Mali’s military leader Gen Assimi Goïta has been granted a five-year presidential term by the transitional parliament, which is renewable without elections. The junta leader, who has seized power twice, had promised the return of democracy last year, but it never materialized. The bill granting his new mandate said it could be renewed […]
The 80-year-old leader pledges economic growth from today’s GDP of $66bn to $500bn within the next five years. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has confirmed he will contest next year’s presidential election, setting the stage for a potential extension of his nearly 40-year rule. The 80-year-old announced late on Saturday, June 28, that he had expressed […]
DJAMILIA PRANGE de OLIVEIRA For Juliana Lumumba, Patrice Lumumba wasn’t just an independence leader and politician. He has her father. That’s why she continues to call for the truth about Lumumba’s assassination 64 years ago.For more than 60 years, Juliana Lumumba has had questions. Who murdered her father? How did the Americans help? What did […]
Child marriage and sexual violence plague women and girls as climate change threatens the northern Marsabit region. TOM PARRY As the sun approaches its scorching zenith, Dukano Kelle heads out from the desolate settlement of Kambinye in northern Kenya, urging her family’s reluctant donkey forward by whipping it with an acacia branch. Though the oppressive […]