Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou Cuts Ties With Taipei

The Burkina Faso government has announced it is cutting ties with Taiwan. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Tensions Run High at DRC Policy Breakfast on Capitol Hill

The ‘Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo’ panel convened by the Congressional Black Caucus on Capitol Hill last week was planned before the recent outbreak in… Read more »

Africa: What's Behind U.S. Secretary Pompeo's Calls to African Leaders?

Less then a month after taking office as U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo spoke by telephone last week to four African leaders. Announced on Twitter by State Department… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: WHO Chief Tedros Flies Into DR Congo to Direct Ebola Response

The World Health Organization's director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, flew into the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the weekend to visit an area hit by an outbreak… Read more »

Africa: South Africa's Ramaphosa to co-chair Global Commission on the Future of Work - ILO

President Cyril Ramaphosa is to join a top-level Commission on the Future of Work, set up by the International Labour Organization in 2017, the ILO has said. Read more »

Africa: Retired Ambassador Slated for Top U.S. State Department Post

A career diplomat who was U.S. ambassador to Guinea and Ethiopia under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush has been chosen for the top Africa policy post in the State… Read more »

Africa: Excuse Me Kanye West, Slavery Was a Choice For Who, How?

Kanye West, who has made extensive headlines recently with his support of President Donald Trump, sparked some serious backlash, and we thought it couldn't get much worse. Then he… Read more »

Nigeria: Ahead of White House Meeting, Abuja Touts Newly Agreed GE-Led Rail Project

A few hours before Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's White House meeting April 30 with President Trump, the Presidency in Abuja announced agreement to build a new rail network,… Read more »

Africa: U.S. to Punish Those Who Vote Against It?

Burundi, South Africa and Zimbabwe look set to be punished - or at least sent to the naughty corner - by the United States if the Trump administration acts on threats to penalise… Read more »

Africa: African Migrants to the U.S. Are the Cream of the Crop

The growing number African immigrants who settle in the United States are more highly educated than those who go to Europe, according to a new survey by a major American research… Read more »

Africa: 'You're Miserable. You're Beyond Miserable.' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Having Malaria

For millions of Africans, malaria is a debilitating disease which repeatedly disrupts their lives and their productivity, leaving them "miserable, beyond miserable" every time it… Read more »

Africa: Malaria Summit Sees U.S.$4,1 Billion Committed to Fight Disease

More than a dozen heads of State and government, Bill Gates, ministers from 19 Commonwealth countries, scientists and private sector and international organisations have made… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: U.S. Keeping a Close Eye on Kabila and Election Plans

The U.S. says it welcomes plans by the Democratic Republic of Congo to set up a special fund to manage all aid donations, said Elizabeth Jaffee, Senior DRC Desk Officer… Read more »

Africa: Now or Never - Quashing Malaria Before It Roars Back

A powerful international coalition of civil society organisations launches a new campaign in London today to fight back against the threatened resurgence of malaria. Read more »

Africa: U.S.-Africa Policy on the Skids - 10 Things Pompeo Can Do To Fix It Quickly

The Donald Trump Administration has largely ignored Africa during its first sixteen months in office.  Secretary-of-State-nominee Mike Pompeo has an opportunity to change… Read more »

Africa: What's With Building All These High Walls?

When the Berlin wall finally came down in 1992, we thought: This was it, no more walls! Well, we might have celebrated too soon because in 1994 Israel constructed its own wall to… Read more »

Africa: Our Loyalty is to African Culture - New Director of Smithsonian's African Art Museum

Collaborating with African countries is a cornerstone of Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford's vision for the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. Read more »

Africa: We Want English, Not Swahili, U.S. Senator Tells Facebook Chief

"I am going to suggest to you that you go back home and you rewrite it and tell your U.S.$1,200-an hour lawyers, no disrespect, they're good, but tell them that you want it written… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Will Ivorians Take a Stand for Syria's Victims?

A United Nations Security Council vote on Syria last month offers fresh evidence that China is using its growing influence to curtail the UN's role in protecting human rights, in… Read more »

Africa: Ghanaians Fail Australia Sports Quiz, Sent Home

More than 50 Ghanaians trying to gain entry to Australia have been deported from the country. Read more »

Lesotho: New Maseru Market Centre to Boost Food Production, Encourage Young People

A project recently launched in Lesotho looks at getting young people to work in agro-processing, boosting food production in a country which – surrounded by South Africa… Read more »

South Africa: Envoy Asks WTO To Heed Mandela on Just Rules for Global Trade

Xavier Carim, South Africa's Ambassador to the World Trade Organization and the outgoing chairman of the WTO's General Council, quoted words from a speech by his former president,… Read more »

Africa: Pompeo – Sadly - Unlikely to Pay More Attention to Africa

When it comes to Africa, don't expect much from the changes that are taking place at the State Department.  Africa has been poorly served by the Trump administration and that… Read more »

Africa: Trump Fires U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson After Africa Visit

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a day after he cut his visit to Nigeria short to return to Washington ahead of schedule to deal with… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Should Rejoin the Commonwealth Now

Zimbabwe, the country, was not expelled from the Commonwealth. It was former President Robert Mugabe who took the decision to leave. Read more »