• TECNO: Fueling the dream of Africans through football

    Saturday, June 7, 2025

    Innovative AI-driven technology brand TECNO today announced that it is strengthening its already close relationship with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) by becoming the Official Global Partner of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025 and TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, KE- UG – TA 2027, bringing its “Stop at Nothing” […]

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  • Achieving African Union’s Agenda 2063

    Sunday, June 1, 2025

    Africa, the world’s youngest continent with immeasurable natural resources, has all it needs to achieve the African Union’s Agenda 2063, provided the right public policies are implemented, according to government officials and development experts. The experts expressed this shared conviction on Monday during the 2025 Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group, taking place […]

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  • $100m investment to build industrial parks in Africa

    Wednesday, May 28, 2025

    The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved an investment of $100 million in the industrial platform developer and operator Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms (Arise IIP) to contribute to funding industrial parks and special economic zones across Africa as a part of our industrialization strategic priority and flagship Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones […]

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  • African parliamentarians unite to end malaria

    Sunday, May 18, 2025

    In a landmark move to reignite political leadership in the fight against malaria, Parliamentarians from 16 African countries gathered in Accra, Ghana, on 28–29 April to officially launch COPEMA: the Coalition of Parliamentarians to End Malaria in Africa.  Held one year after the African Ministerial Yaoundé Declaration, the launch marks a critical moment for the […]

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  • Mushroom transforms rural communities in Uganda

    Sunday, May 18, 2025

    The humble oyster mushroom has become an unexpected hero in the story of rural economic empowerment—one that is intimately connected to the conservation of the Endangered Grey Crowned Crane and the wetlands they call home. The International Crane Foundation (ICF) had a far-fetched idea that has become a thriving enterprise in the Rukiga District of […]

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News

Oct
29

Africa dominates list of most improved economies

Five of the top 10 countries with the most improved economies since the previous year are in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Bank Group’s Doing Business 2015 rankings.   The five African countries are Benin, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Other nations making the list are Tajikistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Azerbaijan, Ireland, […]

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Oct
27

Ebola: Shortage of experienced doctors

The difficulty of finding doctors with field experience is hampering international medical intervention to help curb Ebola in West Africa. Fear of contracting the virus and restricted air travel have also slowed the response. During a visit to the three most affected countries that began in Guinea this weekend, the US ambassador to the United […]

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Oct
26

Convention on the Rights of the Child to become law

Children have rights – the right to life, play and learning. This means all children: regardless of whether your name is Maria or Mariam and whether you live in Borlänge or Bamako. This November marks 25 years since the UN adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. So far, 193 countries have undertaken […]

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Oct
26

Open letter to President Sirleaf: Resign now

Dear President Sirleaf: Indulge us, in this manner, to accentuate that your ascendency to power in Liberia brought hope to many after the tumultuous years of the civil war and the subsequent and misguided leadership of President Charles Taylor. To many Liberians, the egregious events that transpired in the years preceding your leadership could not […]

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Oct
24

The state of state-building in Somalia

A fence-mending deal signed this month by Somalia and Puntland has variously been hailed as a blueprint for stability and state-building in the wake of decades of civil war, and dismissed as a recipe for renewed inter-clan violence. The 14 October agreement between the Mogadishu-based Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the autonomous Puntland State […]

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Oct
22

AU head visits countries hit by Ebola

African Union Commission Chairperson Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini- Zuma at the head of a 14-member delegation is expected to arrive in Liberia on Thursday for a one-day official visit. Dr. Dlamini-Zuma’s visit to Liberia is part of her tour of the three countries worst affected by the Ebola Virus Disease. The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission of Africa […]

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Oct
21

APC Norway chieftain hails Buhari

I was one of the most happiest person when General Muhammed Buhari (GMB) declared to his interest to be elected the President of Nigeria in 2015. I still remember vividly when he lost the presidential election in 2011 against President Goodluck Jonathan, he wept bitterly and said that could be his last election in Nigeria. But as […]

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Oct
20

Ebola hits West Africa food security

West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, which has been disrupting agricultural and market activities, threatens to erode food security and negatively affect the livelihoods of millions of already vulnerable people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone unless more is done to meet their immediate food and nutritional needs, say aid agencies. They say they are still calculating […]

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Oct
19

Gbowee Foundation empowers 83 local groups

As the outbreak of Ebola in Liberia continues to take its toll closing schools, putting some government employees on compulsory leave and slowing down economic activities, several institutions and individuals have been making donations to the fight against the virus.  For some, the donations have been directed towards the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and other […]

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Oct
19

Tanzania’s new citizens to get land, voting rights

Over 162,000 former Burundian refugees, who were recently granted Tanzanian citizenship after living in the country for over four decades, will now be able to buy and own land and vote, said a senior government official. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has hailed the move. Most of the former refugees have been living in camps […]

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