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."
FREDDIE W. MENZ Multiple award-winning singer, songwriter and producer Stevie Wonder has announced his big decision to move to Ghana permanently. The Los Angeles resident made this announcement during an interview with Oprah Winfrey on her show “The Oprah Conversation” on Apple TV+. Mr Wonder, born Stevland Hardaway Judkins, has visited the country on numerous […]
New research published in Nature Food warns that heat stress in animals caused by rising temperatures and humidity will occur more frequently and for longer periods, impacting milk and meat productivity for dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, goat, pigs and poultry across East Africa. Analysis of historical data from 1981-2010 shows that livestock have already […]
Ghana has become the first recipient of COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed by COVAX. Ghana took delivery of 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. Key government and health officials as well as diplomats were at the Kotoka International Airport to receive the vaccines. A plane carrying 600,000 doses of […]
A Sermon by Dr. Kofi A. Boateng To answer the question whether racism is biblical, we shall take the question apart. We shall not engage in an intellectual exercise but empower ourselves to cause social change and mutual acceptance. May the Holy Spirit guide me to convey the essential message He wants to teach us. […]
Two UN agencies on Saturday called on the Somali government to commit to ending female genital mutilation (FGM) by passing a law that eliminates the practice. The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) called on the government to revive efforts for passage of the FGM Bill which has been stuck in […]
Germany’s Africa policy was meant to promote investment and create prosperity for Africans. Then came COVID, and the economy plummeted. Now two key architects of the policy are leaving. DANIEL PELZ An important date was missing from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s calendar last year — the annual summit with African Heads of States and Germany’s […]
AYLIN WOODWARDFor millennia, ancient Egyptians were laid to rest in burial shafts under Saqqara, a city of the dead in the desert south of modern-day Cairo. But royal Egyptians like King Teti – a pharaoh who ruled more than 4,200 years ago – were buried in pyramids, along with the women they married. Archaeologists discovered […]
Rwanda is renowned for its green and immaculate public spaces. And 35-year-old Viateur Ndahayo is a flower farmer playing his part, beautifying the city of Kigali with his ornamental flora. STEVEN MUVUNYI At Gacuriro, a leafy neighborhood in Kigali, dressed in a white shirt and blue jeans, Ndahayo shows us around his RWF250 million ($255,000) […]
At least 750 people are reported dead after an attack on an Oriental Orthodox church in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, according to a European watch group. On Jan. 9, the Europe External Programme with Africa reported that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, about 80 miles west of Adigrat, had been attacked, […]
Pressure group Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) has condemned the unruly conduct of some Members of Parliament (MPs) on the floor of the House of Parliament during the election of Speaker for the 8th Parliament on January 6, 2020. The group’s leadership in a statement decried the needless confrontations and called for a speedy independent […]