Opinions
Op-Ed: Mind the gender gap, #ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021
IN promoting women to fully participate in all areas...
Op-Ed: Ghanaians are eating more fast food: the who and the why
FAST food - food sold in an outlet, drive-through,...
Featured News
Commander says Africa is too important for Americans to ignore
AFRICA is a fascinating continent of tremendous possibilities but also tremendous dangers, and the US ignores the nations of Africa at its own peril,...
Business & Economy
FAO, AUC launch guide to help countries enter Africa’s new single market
THE UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the African Union Commission's Department of Agriculture,...
Russia to open business support centre in Uganda
RUSSIA’S Co-ordination Committee for Economic Cooperation with sub-Saharan African States (AfroCom) intends to open the...
Nairobi is top city in Africa for innovation – report
THE recently released Knight Frank Africa Horizons Report 2021/22, ranked Nairobi as the top city...
Nigeria’s commercial hub sets up anti-graft body to investigate officials
Lagos state, which is home to Nigeria’s commercial hub, set up an anti-corruption agency to...
Wealthy countries must help sub-Saharan Africa in 2021, says IMF
SUB-SAHARAN Africa is set to record the slowest economic growth of any world region this...
Cashing in on cashews: Africa must add value to its nuts
THE continent grows most of the world’s raw cashews but only processes a fraction of...
News
Dogs, guards and prayers introduced to protect Nigerian schools
AUTHORITIES in Nigeria’s Katsina State say dogs and prayer sessions will be part of a new security set-up to protect students at schools from...
Cash-strapped Africa overwhelmed by Covid vaccine challenge
WHEN Ghana received 50,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses from India last month, it hit a frustrating roadblock: it had not trained enough staff to distribute...
Politics
Commander says Africa is too important for Americans to ignore
AFRICA is a fascinating continent of tremendous possibilities but also tremendous dangers, and the US ignores the nations of Africa at its own peril,...
Chadian opposition decries Deby’s son as interim leader
CHAD’S political opposition is saying the country suffered a ‘coup d’etat’ when power was handed to Mahamat Idriss Deby, arguing that the military did...
Who is Mahamat Deby, Chad’s new leader?
THIRTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Mahamat Idriss Deby, who took charge of the transitional military council after his father’s death, is a four-star general, who is known in...
DR Congo seeks over $4bn in reparations from Uganda at ICJ
LAWYERS for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Tuesday told the International Court of Justice that they are seeking $4.3bn in reparations...
‘Stop comparing me with Magufuli,’ Suluhu rants at Tanzania’s MPs
TANZANIA’S President Samia Suluhu Hassan took a bold step to demand members of parliament to stop comparing her with the former leader John Pombe...
Chad rebels threaten to depose slain president’s son
REBELS in Chad threatened to depose the son of the country’s slain president after he was named interim leader of the central African nation,...
Chad’s president Deby: a long-serving army ally in turbulent Sahel
IDRISS Deby Itno, who was on course for a sixth term as Chad's president before he died from injuries sustained in battle, had carved...
Rwanda report says France ‘bears significant responsibility’ over genocide
FRANCE ‘bears significant responsibility’ for enabling the genocide in Rwanda and still refuses to acknowledge its true role in the 1994 horror, said a...
Rwanda arrests woman deported from US on genocide charges
A RWANDAN woman who was deported by the United States after serving a prison term for lying on her naturalisation application has been arrested...
