A new Atlas released at the 2017 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Durban, South Africa, this week highlights the opportunities and challenges for sustainable development of the energy resources on the continent. Energy consumption in Africa is the lowest in … Read More
Speaking at a retreat for cabinet ministers on Saturday, President Barrow called on ministers to urgently unify the country around their transformative development agendas and align speedily with the country’s bilateral and multilateral partners to bring about “the socio-economic development … Read More
Expressing deep concern over the increasing military clashes in South Sudan, African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has called on the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition and other armed movements in … Read More
The President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has called for urgent action to end rural poverty in Africa, saying “We must pay particular attention to three factors: extreme rural poverty, high rates of unemployment among the … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has assured his compatriots that despite insinuations about his alleged poor health, there is no need for apprehension over recovery. In a statement issued Thursday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and … Read More
Many countries in Africa are striving towards achieving the sustainable goals and climate change is one of the greatest threats to achieving sustainable development, a senior official of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said Friday in Addis Ababa, … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Kenyan opposition alliance has named Raila Odinga, former Prime Minister, its Presidential candidate. The announcement was made by Musalia Mudavadi, the co-founder of the National Super Alliance (NASA), at a packed rally in Nairobi. The opposition leaders … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Ghana’s former president Jerry John Rawlings has lashed out at the West following last week’s missile strikes against Syria describing it another display of the military might of the United States. In an article entitled “The Immorality … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Hundreds of migrants along North African migrant routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day ‘slave markets’ in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these reports “can be added … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Gambian President Adama Barrow’s nominee, Mariama Diack Denton, was elected Speaker of the 58-member national assembly in the tiny West African nation Tuesday. Denton, a lawyer, and four others were nominated by the President after the April … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of a Ugandan university lecturer who criticized President Yoweri Museveni and his wife on Facebook. Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a single mother of three, was … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] The United Democratic Party (UDP) has emerged victorious in Thursday’s parliamentary election in Gambia winning 31 out of the 53 seats in the tiny West African nation’s first free and fair poll in 22 years. According to … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Diplomats and representatives of the international community gathered on Friday at the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the 23rd Commemoration of the Rwanda Genocide and paid tribute to the 800,000 lives lost during … Read More
Alhaji Lai Mohammed [column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Parents and guardians in Nigeria should monitor the activities of their children to prevent them from being recruited by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has resorted to targeting vulnerable individuals, … Read More
Esther Lungu [column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] The Secretary General of the opposition Rainbow Party, Wynter Kabimba, has criticised the Chinese Embassy in Zambia for its recent cash donation of 200,000 kwacha to First Lady Esther Lungu’s foundation. ($1US=K9) Kabimba, who has … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] The Sudanese government has said Egyptians can no longer enter Sudan without visas, effectively ending decades of free entry to the Sudan by Egyptian nationals. The official Radio Omdurman on Saturday quoted the official spokesman for the … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] “Africa will develop on its own terms, not based on the benevolence of others. And that is the only way we can make development faster and driven by our own needs – with a deep sense of … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has confirmed the deaths of Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan, two members of the UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo who went missing since 12 March, noting … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and former African Union chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma were among the dignitaries who attended the funeral of struggle stalwart Ahmed Kathrada at Johannesburg’s Westpark Cemetery on Wednesday. The liberation hero who was hospitalized on … Read More
[column width=”47%” padding=”6%”] Zambia’s Non-Governmental Organizations Coordinating Council (NGOCC) is deeply saddened by the Patriotic Front (PF) government’s decision to spend about US$ 222,000 (Kwacha 2 million) on public consultation as to whether the country should pull out of the … Read More
