Ghana: Africa's Best Hope in Tough World Cup Pool

In the fourth of AllAfrica's profiles of the African contenders at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, Nick Said assesses the Black Stars of Ghana. Read his profiles of Cote… Read more »

Nigeria: Amid Challenges, Local Work Matters

Nigeria news – in-country and internationally – is dominated by the kidnapping of schoolgirls by the militant group Boko Haram and the wider insecurity the abductions… Read more »

Nigeria: 'We Hope…and Keep Trying' – TY Danjuma Foundation Director

At a time when Africa's most populous nation and largest economy is reeling from intensifying attacks by a shadowy extremist movement, civil society efforts to address Nigeria's… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Ivorians Field Powerful World Cup Squad

In the third AllAfrica profile of Africa's World Cup contenders in Brazil, Nick Said looks at the Ivoirian team. Read his profile of Algeria here, and Cameroon here. Follow… Read more »

Cameroon: Indomitable Lions Enter World Cup in 'Patchy' Form

In the second of AllAfrica's profiles of the five African contenders at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, Nick Said assesses the chances of Cameroon. Read his profile of Algeria… Read more »

Mali: Most Malians Want a United Country - Survey

Nine of every 10 people in Mali want the country to remain a single, united nation, and this desire is even stronger in much of the north than it is in the south, according to a… Read more »

Nigeria: Jonathan Cancels Visit to Chibok - Report

According to Reuters, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has cancelled his first visit to the village where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by militant group Boko Haram… Read more »

Africa: World Economic Forum Africa - Not What You Imagine

The official conference hasn't even started yet, except for an opening reception I missed last night because the Rockefeller Foundation – a Forum strategic partner –… Read more »

Nigeria: Agriculture is 'Game Changer' for Growth and Curbing Conflict - Minister

Dr. Akin Adesina, Minister of Agriculture for the Republic of Nigeria, is an agricultural economist with decades of experience working to make agriculture productive and… Read more »

Africa: From North to South, East to West, Media Freedom in Africa Under Challenge

The executive director of the International Press Institute (IPI), Alison Bethel McKenzie, delivered a wide-ranging report on press freedom in the world to the institute's world… Read more »

Nigeria: President Has Failed, APC Ready to Lead - Tinubu

Nigeria's election next February will be the first nationwide two-party contest since the end of military rule in 1999. The emergence last year of the All Progressives Congress… Read more »

Nigeria: Memorandum on Security Challenges in Borno & Yobe States

We are all members of the Borno and Yobe States Peoples Forum who actively participated in the preparation of the Press conference held in Abuja on 30th March 2014. The message of… Read more »

Nigeria: Borno-Yobe Forum Questions Security Forces on 'Continuous Bloodletting'

Presentation by the Borno-Yobe People's Forum at the World Press Conference on the Crises in the North East Held on 31st March 2014 at Barcelona Hotel, Abuja Read more »

Ghana: Student Accepted to All Ivy League Schools in U.S.

A New York high school student whose family immigrated to the United States from Ghana has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools in the U.S, according to CNN. Read more »

Mali: Malians Show Dramatic Leap in Confidence

The return of democracy and peace to much of Mali has generated a complete turnaround in public confidence in the country's future, according to a new opinion survey. Read more »

Ghana: Akufo-Addo Announces Plan to Run for President

Opposition politician Nana Akufo-Addo, who narrowly lost Ghana's last election to President John Dramani Mahama, has announced that he will be seeking his party's nomination for… Read more »

Liberia: War Refugees Rebuilding Liberia - Gyude Moore

Only 10 years ago, Liberia began to emerge from a quarter-century of instability, punctuated by what Liberians call World Wars I and II. The names reflect the lived realities of… Read more »

West Africa: Shipping Industry Calls for Joint Action on Piracy

West Africa's coastal states need to step up co-ordination to beat the growing incidence of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, says an international maritime organisation. Read more »

Liberia: Resilience and Resolve – a Personal Story

On the morning of August 2, 1991, Anna Musu Sherman fled fighting and famine in Liberia's capital, but she couldn't outrun fear. Read more »

Senegal: Dakar Reaches Out to Finance Big Development Plans

Senegal's Minister of Budget Mouhamadou Mactar Cisse met with business representatives in Washington, D.C. last month to present the country's ambitious development plan and… Read more »

Liberia: Convincing the World 'Liberia Is Back' - Foreign Minister Ngafuan

Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has been involved in Liberian politics since student days during his country's long period of conflict and civil strife in the 1990s. President Ellen… Read more »

Guinea: Rapid Steps Needed to Ensure Credible Elections

When Guinea's Supreme Court announced the final results of the legislative elections on November 15, 2013, Guineans finally, and quite understandably, breathed a massive sigh of… Read more »

Nigeria: Women's Group Receives Major U.S. Award

A Nigerian organization dedicated to promoting the rights of women in the country's legal systems has received a major award from an American foundation for its "outsized impact"… Read more »

Africa: Africans Struggle to See Oil, Mineral Revenues

A major new survey of African countries which depend on mining or oil revenues shows that six in 10 people have difficulty in finding out how their governments spend the proceeds… Read more »

Liberia: Fighting for Liberia's Future – One Issue at a Time

A Conversation with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Read more »