Lee Valley in London is expected to light up this weekend as Eritreans in the UK hold their annual cultural festival. “For one weekend in every summer, it has become customary to British Eritreans in the UK to transform Lee Valley into mini Eritrea. The Festival is an important occasion for harmony, consolidation of Eritrean African unity, […]

The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) has launched the search for fifty-four of Africa’s top young science and technology ambassadors, one from each African country. The selected NEF Ambassadors will join the NEF Fellows Class as young science and technology champions from Africa. NEF Ambassadors will attend the NEF Global Gathering in March 2016 in Dakar, […]

Speaking of the African Faith Leaders’ Statement on Financing for Development, issued following a side event at the 3rd United Nations Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Rev. Nicta Lubaale, general secretary of the Organization of African Instituted Churches, said, the key message from African faith communities is “respect Africa’s resources”. Lubaale was […]

A Gambian-based Nigerian music producer is currently in Sweden working in partnership with the New Covenant Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, pastored by Rev. Samuel Oluware, in Borås on a recording project and a church conference slated for October. Bolanle Joel Ekanoye, who arrived in Sweden on July 7, is also working with gospel artist Nancy Bergdahl […]

The 17th annual Eritrea cultural extravangaza in Sweden known as  Festival Eritrea Scandinavia, is slated to be held from July 30 to August 2 in Stockholm. Some top Eritrean artists, say the organizers, are billed to perform during the festival. They include Mohamed Osman, Said Berhanu, Bisrat Aregai, Samuel Teages and Haile Natti. It is one of […]

After the international success of its first two feature films, South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studios is establishing The Triggerfish Story Lab with the support of the  country’s Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) and The Walt Disney Company. Triggerfish will be investing up to $3.5m over the next three years in The Story Lab, […]

Ecobank Côte d’Ivoire  officially inaugurated its new head office building in Abidjan on Friday 10 July. The inauguration ceremony at Avenue Avenue Houdaille, Place de la République in Abidjan’s main commercial district of Plateau, took place with Ivorian Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan as main guest of honour. The Prime Minister paid homage to the Ecobank […]

Closing Africa’s infrastructure gap is a top priority in order to put the continent on a path for double digit growth and sustainable development. This is according to world-renowned professor of economics, Jeffrey Sachs. “There is no choice, Africa needs 10 per cent per year of economic growth in the next 15 years,” Professor Sachs […]

Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPFA) on Wednesday commenced it’s 2nd its Annual Youth Camp under the theme: Peace Through Fair -Play (PTFP in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee, director and lead facilitator of the camp, said the four-day event will provide a sensitization framework to increase awareness among young people on their roles […]

Over 30 heads of state and government, more than 110 government ministers and over 1000 business and civil society representatives gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Monday for the opening of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development with calls to ensure the necessary resources to improve people’s lives while protecting the planet. The meeting […]