• Afreximbank seeks to empower African businesses

    Monday, April 27, 2026

    African Corporates will have a unique opportunity to learn how to fully maximize the benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) when the third edition of the AfCFTA Training Program holds in Cairo, Egypt from June 16 -18. Developed and led by African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the American University in […]

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  • IOC names Athlete Role Models for Dakar 2026

    Tuesday, April 21, 2026

    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced the first group of Athlete Role Models for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Senegal, marking an important step in preparations for the first Olympic sporting event to be held on the African continent. Key facts The IOC has announced an initial list of 31 Athlete […]

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  • African Development Bank, ESM to enhance cooperation

    Sunday, April 19, 2026

    The African Development Bank Group and The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalize and strengthen cooperation between the two institutions. The signing took place on Wednesday 15 April, on the margins of the 2026 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group in Washington DC.  […]

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  • $10 billion to shield African, CARICOM economies

    Friday, April 10, 2026

    To counter the severe economic shocks triggered by the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the board of directors of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has approved a US$10 billion Gulf Crisis Response Program (GCRP) to insulate African and Caribbean economies, financial institutions and corporates from the impact of the ongoing Gulf crisis. The conflict, which […]

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  • Africa’s economic resilience holds firm

    Saturday, April 4, 2026

    Despite ongoing regional and global headwinds, Africa continues to demonstrate impressive resilience and maintains its status as a global growth frontier. This is the headline finding of the 2026 Africa Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook (MEO) report, released by the African Development Bank Group on Monday, March 30 at the Bank Group headquarters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The […]

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News

Apr
2

African goals in Sweden

Africans struck three times on the opening day of Sweden’s top football championship, the Allsvenkan last weekend. Senegalese striker Malick Mane scored his first ever goal in the Allsvenskan as his new club IFK Goteborg collected a 2-0 win over rivals AIK. Mane banged in the second goal in the 86th minute after coming on as […]

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Apr
2

Uganda president leads anti-gay rally

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has led a rally celebrating his country’s new anti-gay laws, saying homosexuality creates grave health problems and that gays have always been regarded as abnormal by Africans. Museveni made the comments on Monday at a “thanksgiving service” organised in the capital Kampala by a coalition of Ugandan religious leaders and government […]

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Mar
31

State lawyer predicts war

  Cllr. Theophilous Gould, one of the state lawyers, has predicted war if a trial jury in Monrovia, the Liberian capital, acquits 18 Liberians charged with carrying out subversive activities in neighboring Ivory Coast. “If you fail to convict the defendants because you feel they are Liberian then Cote d’Ivoire will revenge against Liberia by bringing war”, he […]

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Mar
31

Gee Man to release “Cherry Coco” album

A Liberian recording artist, George Garsua Sikpa, also known as the “Gee Mann” will on Saturday, May 31, 2014  launch his latest CD album “Cherry Coco” in Northeast Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, USA. According to Gee Mann, some of  Liberia’s finest musicians will  perform at  the  program. The artists include Zaye Tete, Friday, the cell phone […]

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Mar
30

UNMIL drawdown to cost Liberia $50m

Liberia’s Finance Minister Amara Konneh last week revealed that it would cost the government of Liberia US$50 million to fill in all necessary gaps when UNMIL drawdown is completed. “While our service sector has been another driving force of economic growth, it is expected  to take a hit as the United Nations Mission in Liberia(UNMIL)draws down […]

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Mar
30

How Prof. Alaric Tokpa protected his family

Brooklyn Park, MN- In much of Liberia’s troubled history of dictatorial and military rule, many people never got to know the pains relatives of students’ politicians went through whenever their loved ones were imprisoned by the government. But for the first time last Saturday, during a gathering of Liberian and American guests, a Liberian lady […]

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Mar
29

Female ‘armed robber’ resists going to jail

Drama erupted at the Monrovia City Court in Liberia recently when a suspected female armed robber resisted her imprisonment at the Monrovia Central Prison.Dekontee Morris and two others female were charged with armed robbery, an allegation they denied. Defendant Dekontee said she refused to go jail on the grounds that she was falsely accused by a relative of the […]

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Mar
29

Sweden talks about Roma abuses

    Today, I present the White Paper initiated by the Government on abuses and rights violations of Roma in the 20th century. The White Paper is based on interviews with Roma and Travellers, on archive material and research studies. It provides a description of a dark period in Sweden’s history that is more complete […]

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Mar
28

Malaysian couple sentenced to prison

A Swedish court has sentenced a Malaysian couple to prison for “gross violation of their children’s integrity”. The prosecutor said the parents physically abused their children using sticks, belts and clothes hangers. The abuse happened between 2010 and 2013. A court statement said: “The mother is convicted of gross violation of the integrity of the daughter […]

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Mar
27

Ivory Coast: Impartial justice for all

    The United Nations Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Cote d’Ivoire, Doudou Diène, expressed concern over unresolved issues in the national reconciliation process of the West African country, ahead of presidential elections in 2015. The key, he stressed, lies in applying “impartial justice for all” in a country still recovering […]

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