Ghana: Understanding a Nation's Pulse - Are Ghana's Leaders Ready, As the Country Votes?

Ghana stands at a crossroads. Recent protests and citizen frustrations reveal what can happen when leaders underestimate the power of a disillusioned populace. An Afrobarometer… Read more »

Africa: After the Bell - Elections in Africa Can Teach the Rest of the World About Democracy

Liberation movements no longer appeal to voters and this is why there have been tectonic shifts in election outcomes. Democracy is maturing in Africa, as seen in a peaceful… Read more »

Ghana: Ghana Faces Possible Violence, Unrest Threats in Run-Up to Critical December Elections

Ahead of the December 2024 elections, heightened mistrust in state institutions and unresolved tensions threaten to disrupt the polls. Read more »

Nigeria: #EndSARS Human Rights Defender Exiled After Police Brutality Protests Takes Up Fight Against Disinformation

Raphael Adebayo left Nigeria under an alias after he was targeted for being one of the coordinators of the #EndSARS and #ReformPoliceNG movement now, he is tackling disinformation… Read more »

Liberia: Bridge Disaster in Baltimore Gets FBI Criminal Investigation

The US has opened a criminal investigation into what occurred on a cargo ship before it crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and caused it to collapse last month,… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigerian Cops Trace Kingpins to South Africa After Cocaine, Pistols and 'Military Items' Smuggled From Durban

Police in Nigeria have arrested three port workers who were allegedly involved in smuggling drugs, pistols, ammunition and military items via Durban. The cops also believe three… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria Is Facing an Inflation Crisis - Even Cashew Nuts Are Now Unaffordable

The mad price of cashew nuts is not the whole story of Nigeria's cost-of-living crisis. Prices are rising at their fastest rate ever in 30 years. The cost of staple foods like… Read more »

Nigeria/South Africa: Diplomatic Tensions, Supporter Strife Swirl Ahead of Critical Bafana Vs Nigeria Afcon Semifinal

Tension built up even before Bafana Bafana's semifinal match on Wednesday evening with Nigeria in the Africa Cup of Nations -- this time of a diplomatic kind. Read more »

Africa: 'We Believe,' Say Giant-Killers Cape Verde, As Afcon Quarterfinal Clash With Bafana Looms

Cape Verde's Blue Sharks have never reached the semifinals of Afcon, while Bafana Bafana haven't reached the mark since 2000. Read more »

Sierra Leone: Fears of Violence in Sierra Leone As Former President Koroma Faces Treason Charge

The need for unity in Sierra Leone in the wake of a brutal 11-year civil war, which ended in 2002 and left an estimated 50,000 people dead and the economy in tatters, is always top… Read more »

Nigeria: Date Rape Drug Hidden in Dried Fish Is The Latest Confiscation in South Africa-Nigeria Crackdowns

A consignment of Rohypnol, flown from Nigeria, was intercepted in Johannesburg. This bust comes after other crackdowns which saw cops in Nigeria arrest two suspected kingpins… Read more »

Ghana: The 300-Year-Old Ghanaian Tree That Was So Threatening It Had to Die

Evangelical Christian church leaders saw the tree as a fetish, a totem of traditional religions. The desecration was met with outrage in Ghanaian media, indicating that respect for… Read more »

West Africa: West African Coups Set to Worsen Already Prevailing Economic Crises, Mass Hunger and Violent Chaos

The reality is that the African countries under new military leaders following coups face the spectre of plunging into Libyan and Sudan-like chaos. Read more »

Nigeria: 'A List to Bring Wonder' - 2023 Booker Prize Longlist Announced, Including Ayobami Adebayo and Tan Twan Eng

The 2023 Booker Prize longlist has been announced, offering 'startling portraits of the current'. Read more »

Ghana: 'Game-Changer' Obuasi Mine in Ghana Now the Jewel in Anglogold's Crown, Says CEO

One theme that has been emerging in AngloGold Ashanti's results is the improbable recovery of its Obuasi mine in Ghana, which a few years ago was overrun by an army of illegal mine… Read more »

South Africa: Third Video of SA Hostage Gerco Van Deventer Released By Malian Captors

Gerco van Deventer has been held by al-Qaeda in northern Africa for more than five years. In the most recent video, the South African paramedic called for help to 'gain what was… Read more »

Nigeria: Many Nigerians Certainly Happy to See Buhari Go, but Less Sure of What Comes Next

For the past six months, many of the people in Africa's most populous country have been waiting for the misery of the Muhammadu Buhari years to end. Now, as Nigeria's version of… Read more »

Liberia/South Africa: It's Do or Die for Bafana Bafana When They Face Liberia in Monrovia

It won't be easy to trump the Lone Stars on home soil -- especially considering that Bafana Bafana failed to do so on their own turf. Read more »

Africa: Wagner Group Leads Russia's African Front in Cold War With the West

As men are being slaughtered on all sides in a grinding war of attrition for the control of destroyed Ukrainian cities, the new Cold War between Russia and the West is being played… Read more »