African News
Source: VOA Returning African artifacts taken by explorers and colonizers remains a hot-button issue in Europe-Africa relations — one that gained traction last November when French President Emmanuel Macron announced…
Source: Report Focus News The businessman from Dubai was responding to a question posed to him. Asked what Dubai had done to get phenomenal development and what Nigeria needed to…
Source:ACSS The United States needs higher level political engagement in Africa to counter China’s growing influence even as the military cuts back troop levels on the continent, U.S. Africa Command’s…
Yemisi Izuora Watchdogs has observed that more than half of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa have anti-homosexuality laws, although others have moved toward legal tolerance. Twenty-eight out of 49 countries…
The struggle to institutionalize legitimate and resilient democracies in Africa will be further shaped by the 2019 elections – with direct consequences for security. Africa is set to host two…
Yemisi Izuora The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa’s leading entrepreneurship-focused philanthropy, has announced a call for entries for the 2018 TEF Entrepreneurship Forum Travel Fellowship for African journalists. The Travel Fellowship…
Agency Report A global network of NGOs has signed a ‘game-changing’ insurance policy, intended to pay out if a drought hits Senegal, enabling aid agencies to offer live-saving help before…
Yemisi Izuora The African Union has said that corruption is costing Africa $148 billion annually. At an estimated 25 percent of the continent’s average gross domestic product, the AU calls…
Agency Report Former US President Barack Obama, under whose administration the Iran nuclear agreement was reached in 2015, said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the deal was…
By Our Correspondent. For the seventh year in a row, the President and Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, was adjudged as the richest man in the continent…
