Liberia: Young Entrepreneur Builds Jobs & Futures

Mahmud Johnson is founder and chief executive of J-Palm Liberia, an oil palm processing business he founded in 2013. He is one of a new group of young Liberians who attended… Read more »

Liberia: Impoverished Hard-Hit Area Points to Ebola Recovery

You can't walk too far along West Point's main thoroughfare before realizing that life in the slum community is much like it was before the Ebola epidemic made it a battle ground… Read more »

Liberia: Ebola Survivors Network Eases Transition Home

Josephine Karwah held back tears as she recounted being abandoned by friends and neighbors. The twenty-nine-year-old had contracted Ebola while taking care of her sick parents.… Read more »

Liberia: Ebola - While World Waited, Liberians Acted

Ebola hit close to home – hard – as it reached its peak in 2014. Two members of my church - one a nun and the other a social worker who had been under 21-day quarantine… Read more »

Liberia: The Ebola Stories That Don't Get Told

International news reports about Liberia left the impression of overwhelming irrationality in response to the Ebola crisis – an impression that endures among both policy… Read more »

Senegal: ACP, EU Lay Groundwork For Pivotal Joint Council Meeting In Dakar

The Draft Agenda for the upcoming ACP-EU Joint Council of Ministers, scheduled for the 28-29 April in Dakar, Senegal has been endorsed by Member State representatives from the… Read more »

Africa: Continent Can Accelerate Growth Despite Commodities Slowdown

The apparent end to the commodity super-cycle has sent shock waves across the global economy. It has sparked turbulence in world stock markets, put pressure on currencies, and… Read more »

Africa: U.S. to Africa's Leaders - 'Embrace Life After the Presidency!'

This is a crucial year for democracy in Africa. Six countries have already held presidential elections in 2016, and 11 more are preparing for elections. Read more »

Nigeria: Ending Polio Will Bring Wider Benefits

Nigeria has seen a year and a half with no child paralysed by wild poliovirus. This is a remarkable achievement, taking the world one step closer to reaching eradication once and… Read more »

Liberia: 'Pulling Together' After Ebola & Economic Downturn – Commerce Minister

When Axel Addy was tapped by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to become Liberia's Minister of Commerce and Industry three years ago, after almost a year as deputy minister, the… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Gunmen Attack Ivorian Beach Resort

Gunmen killed more than a dozen people when they opened fire on hotel beaches at a popular resort about 40 kilometres east of Abidjan on Sunday, news agencies report. Read more »

Africa: How to Adapt to Beat Crippling Droughts

Right now, 14 million people across southern Africa face going hungry due to the prolonged drought brought on by the strongest El Niño in 50 years. Read more »

Cameroon: Pioneering Company Brings African Myths to Gaming

When 14-year-old Madiba Olivier finished playing Final Fantasy VII for the sixth time, the young Cameroonian took the first step towards achieving a childhood dream. His passion… Read more »

Senegal: About 200 Billion CFA F Received from the Kuwait Fund Since the 1970s

Senegal is the first recipient of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) in West Africa. From the 1970s to the present day, Kuwait grant to Senegal is estimated at… Read more »

Nigeria: Nation Faces Major Challenge to Vaccinating Children

As we look back on the public health issues that caught the world's attention in 2015, immunization stands out. Whether it was the measles outbreak in the US or the Ebola vaccine… Read more »

Africa: What Obama Still Owes Africa (a Visit to Nigeria for One Thing)

After seven years in office, President Barack Obama has already engaged more broadly on Africa than any previous American president, but with one year remaining in the White House,… Read more »

West Africa: Late, Slow and Wholly Inadequate – the Global Ebola Response

Dr. Samuel Kargbo and his colleagues in Sierra Leone's health ministry were in despair. Read more »

Nigeria: We Need Partnerships to Improve Healthcare Outcomes - El-Rufai

Address by Malam Nasir El Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, at the second Kaduna State Healthcare Partners’ Summit, Tuesday, 27 October 2015, as posted on The Governor of… Read more »

Nigeria: Challenges Abound but People Want Results - Fashola (IGC Awardee)

The International Crisis Group, a global, Brussels-based NGO dedicated to preventing and resolving conflict, selected seven individuals to receive six awards in marking its 20th… Read more »

Africa: How Africa Can Fix the International Criminal Court

The demand of South Africa's ruling African National Congress that the government should pull out of the International Criminal Court is defeatist, naïve and reactionary, says… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Governance Winners, Losers and Surprises

Zimbabwe is one of the African countries where governance has improved most in the four years up to 2014. Senegal just might surge ahead of its African counterparts in the future,… Read more »

Burkina Faso: How to Get the Transition Back On Track

When Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore introduced a bill in Parliament in October 2014 to modify the Constitution to extend his term in office, he never imagined that it… Read more »

Nigeria: Bomb Blast Hits Camp for Nigerians Displaced by Boko Haram

A bomb was exploded at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) near Yola in the northeastern Nigerian state of Adamawa. The Friday morning blast is reportedly the first… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria: 'Power of One' Sets a Nation on Track

Nationwide-wide electrical outages nearly shut down Africa's largest economy before the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari in late May. But now the lights are on, the… Read more »

Senegal: Country Mourns Master Drummer Doudou N'Diaye Rose

Doudou N'Diaye Rose, whose real name is Mamadou N'Diaye, died on August 19, 2015, in Dakar. He was more than just a musician. He was a living heritage of both Senegalese and… Read more »