The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, announced on Friday, October 9 that the AfDB would nearly triple its annual climate financing to reach $5 billion a year by 2020. AfDB’s climate spending will increase to 40% of its total new investments by 2020. “Climate change is both an urgent threat and a […]

Liberia’s Commerce and Industry Minister Axel Addy and Chief Negotiator says Liberia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will provide the enabling environment for growth and development, promoting trade and commerce. Minister Addy speaking at the last Working Party meeting in Geneva, Switrzerland on Tuesday, October 6 praised members of the Working Party and emphasized […]

The hotel and tourism industry in Africa is beginning a period of sustained growth, according to the sector’s leading experts gathered recently at the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference heard that inward international flights were recovering after being hit by the ebola outbreak. And the hotel sector reported significant expansion, […]

Eritrean striker Henok Goitom scored an early goal on Sunday as his club AIK, third on the table, kept its title dreams alive in a 2-1 win over Swedish champions Malmo. The 12th minute strike was Goitom’s 16th in the Swedish football premiership this season. After leading the scoring chart lately the 31-year-old is now second, three goals […]

On September 30, 2015, the Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development Mission to Liberia (USAID), Dr. Anthony S. Chan, inaugurated a modern Science Laboratory at the Grand Bassa County Community College in Buchanan. Under an agreement with the Food and Enterprise Development Program of USAID (USAID FED), the College provided the […]

There are many Liberian gospel musicians, but only one, Bernice Blackie – so completely embodies the skill and vocal that is transcending Liberian gospel music. Bernice has consistently displayed her genius by combining Liberian and African high-life gospel music, with soul and blues into a fervid, heart changing contemporary gospel.  Over the years, she has […]

Four African presidents are among nine world leaders named in a high level group initiated by the Swedish government to ensure that the United Nations’ 17 global goals and the 2030 Agenda are implemented at all levels of society.   The four are Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, South Africa’s Jacob Zuma,  Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania and Tunisia’s Beji Caid […]

Malama Amina stands quietly in the middle of her late husband’s compound in northwestern Nigeria trying to figure out how she will feed herself and her six children in the coming months. Thieves stole 48 cows during a raid on their village in Kaduna State earlier this year. Her husband was killed trying to save […]

Last week, Burkina Faso was breaking international news. In the midst of a government meeting, soldiers of the president’s security forces – the notorious Régiment de Sécurité Présidentielle (RSP) – took President Michel Kafando, Prime Minister Isaac Yacouba Zida and other members of the government in hostage and seized power under the command of General […]

Africa United partners, including the African Union, Confederation of African Football (CAF), CDC Foundation and the World Bank Group proposed Africa United as a Commitment to Action at the 11th Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting today. Africa United, a powerful neutrally-branded communications platform, leverages African political and football leadership along with national and local […]