Concerns are rising in Africa about a potential resurgence of the devastating AIDS crisis that once claimed millions of lives across the continent. Florence Makumene, a 53-year-old from Zimbabwe, witnessed the tragic toll of HIV on her loved ones, who faced a diagnosis that was often seen as a death sentence. However, when she tested […]
Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country Thursday as most French forces departed from countries across West Africa. Some 80 French troops will stay in the country to advise and train the Ivorian military, Tene Birahima Ouattara, the Ivorian defense and state minister, said at a news […]
Evelyn Ama Ankumah, a prominent Ghanaian international lawyer and human rights advocate, is one of two African legal luminaries who have been newly appointed as Special Advisers without portfolio to the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands. The other is Judge Sanji Monageng from Botswana. […]
Top United Nations officials in Africa warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that the offensive of Rwanda-backed rebels in mineral-rich eastern Congo is threatening peace in the wider region. “It is imperative that this council takes urgent and decisive steps to avert a wider regional war,” said Bintou Keita, U.N. […]
South Africa’s national budget presentation was abruptly postponed on Wednesday due to a dispute within the country’s coalition government, marking an unprecedented delay in the post-apartheid era. National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza told lawmakers that such a postponement had never occurred in the past 30 years. The budget is now expected to be tabled on […]
Beset by debt and billions of dollars in unfunded priorities, African leaders have approved a fund to provide concessional lending to cash-strapped governments. The facility, known as The African Financial Stability Mechanism (AFSM) will be managed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), Reuters reported Tuesday. It will have its own credit rating and will be […]
Fifteen different research projects being implemented by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are on the verge of “extinction” following cutbacks in America’s foreign aid agency spending. The projects, which the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) is implementing as parts of efforts to boost productivity of the agriculture sector, are funded by the […]
Mr Issifu Seidu, Minister of State for Climate Change and Sustainability has announced plans to localise climate change issues to help build resilience and sustain livelihood, especially for the vulnerable. In that regard, he said the government would be working with relevant bodies to undertake advocacy, educate the public and stakeholders, and build capacity of relevant agencies […]
South Africa will host a meeting of foreign ministers from the G20 group of major economies later this week, but the chief diplomat for the world’s largest economy, the U.S., is skipping it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on X earlier this month that he would not attend the meeting, taking place Thursday and […]
Regional analysts are calling for the swift implementation of resolutions made at the recently concluded African Union (AU) Summit in Ethiopia. The summit was dominated by discussions on escalating conflicts in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan, as well as concerns over the impact of U.S. aid cuts on the continent. African […]
