November 06, 2018
Africa: Women and Children the Big Losers When Governance is Measured
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has released 2018's Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG). It is the foundation's 12th annual edition since it was launched in 2007. This index shows… Read more »
Uganda: Head of the House Never Goes into the Kitchen - Museveni
Do people still believe a woman's place still is in the kitchen in the 21st century? Well, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni seems to think so. The 74-year-old has come under fire… Read more »
Cameroon: Biya Sworn In, Challenger Arrested - Report
President Paul Biya of Cameroon has been sworn into serve his seventh consecutive term as the head of state. This comes after he was declared winner of the presidential elections… Read more »
Africa: Continent's Biodiversity Crisis - A Call to Action
Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, has called on his fellow African leaders to take action to tackle the current biodiversity crisis facing the continent and do more… Read more »
Nigeria: Fast, Free Google WiFi Could Transform Nation's Health
Nigeria is the fifth country – and the first in Africa – to get Google Station super-fast Internet at selected locations. Read more »
November 05, 2018
Namibia: First Lady Monica Geingos Receives World Without Aids Award
The first lady of Namibia, Monica Geingos, and singer and political activist Sir Bob Geldof have won the 2018 World Without AIDS Award. Read more »
November 04, 2018
Africa: How to Transform an Index Into Better Governance
The publication of this year's Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) highlights the importance of both state and non-state actors in countries across the continent taking… Read more »
October 31, 2018
Cameroon: A Foregone Conclusion – Cameroon's Presidential Election
These three leaders have something in common, however, that distinguishes them from Paul Biya. Read more »
Africa: How We Invest In - and Achieve - Health for Africa
Now is the time for African women to stand up for ourselves and nurture leadership among others. We have been fantastic in many areas essential to progress at the family and… Read more »
Africa: Trade Holds Key to Wealth Creation - Afreximbank's Oramah
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is one of the long-established but lesser known continent-wide institutions. Created by African governments and private and… Read more »
October 30, 2018
Africa: Waging Justice: The Alchemy of Living with Optimism
We are living in a time of huge social and geopolitical upheaval. Institutions and established doctrines that once appeared predictable and protective now seem crazily unmoored. Read more »
October 26, 2018
Africa: Spotlighting Innovation for Infrastructure – CCA's Florie Liser
The 25-year-old Washington, DC-based Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) is hosting on 5-6 November in Johannesburg its first U.S.-Africa Infrastructure Conference to be held outside… Read more »
October 25, 2018
Africa: 'We Were Never Meant to Struggle' - Samia Nkrumah Speaks on Why Africa Needs to Unite
In an exclusive interview, Samia Yaba Nkrumah explains why a more profound African unity is needed to achieve the benefits of democracy - economic growth and prosperity for all. Read more »
Africa: 'Fragile Countries' Urge 'Trade for Peace' at WTO Forum
The g7+ grouping of nations – a voluntary association of countries in transition from conflict to development – is not as well-known as the G7 group of leading… Read more »
Africa: Foreign Investment Key to Prosperity - U.S. Diplomat Nagy
The American administration's top diplomat for African affairs, Assistant Secretary of State Tibor P Nagy, Jr, will soon make his first trip to the continent since his appointment.… Read more »
October 24, 2018
Africa: Poor Vision Affects Billions, Costs Trillions – a Feasible Fix
Try to imagine life – school, home, work – without eyeglasses. Then reflect that poor vision is the world's largest unaddressed disability, affecting an estimated 2.5… Read more »
South Africa: Motswako Pioneer and Rapper HHP Dies
Jabulani Tsambo, better known as Hip Hop Pantsula or Jabba, has died aged 38, his wife and publicist Lerato Sengadi confirmed. Tributes have been pouring in from his fans and the… Read more »
Africa: We Need a Flexible World Order
A geopolitical transition is under way. The post-1945 liberal world order is fracturing and failing to deliver on critical global public goods such as climate stability and… Read more »
October 23, 2018
Africa: Advancing African Solutions to African Problems At the AU
Since its foundation in 2001, the African Union (AU) has established an ambitious interest in preventive diplomacy and conflict management and has had a significant effect on… Read more »
October 19, 2018
Uganda: Your Children Are No Longer Yours - Investigating International Adoptions
How parents in Uganda lose their babies to adoptive families in America. Read more »
October 18, 2018
Ethiopia: 'Inclusiveness and Co-existence' Are Critical in Ethiopia – PM Abiy Ahmed
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali shares his predecessor Hailemariam Desalegn's view that democracy is key to Africa because of the urgent need to meet seismic demographic… Read more »
October 17, 2018
Africa: Africa Needs to Invest Much More in Its People
Progress in the fight against extreme poverty in Africa has been way too slow. Although the poverty rate has declined from 54 percent in 1990 to 41 percent in 2015, a rapid… Read more »
Uganda: Bobi Wine Calls Kanye West's Meeting With Museveni 'Immoral'
Musician-turned-MP Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has slammed controversial rapper Kanye West's decision to meet Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Read more »
Zimbabwe: The Eight Steps Needed to Achieve Full Democracy
Writing for AllAfrica, two former African leaders, a leading member of the United States Congress and top U.S. diplomats under both Democratic and Republican administrations record… Read more »
South Africa: How The Sunday Times Issue Shames All of Journalism
This last weekend, the editor of the Sunday Times Bongani Siqoko issued an apology for the reporting done by the newspaper on the Cato Manor death squads and the Zimbabwe rendition… Read more »