The Vice President of Burundi, Prosper Bazombanza, has revealed that no fewer than 38 inmates died in a fire outbreak at the main prison in the…
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by Dakuku Peterside Nelson Mandela, the legendary African anti-apartheid fighter, said the future belongs to the youth, but Barak Obama qualified it by saying that the…
Every day, ordinary Nigerians from Maiduguri to Oyorokoto-Andoni in Rivers State, Okerenkoko – Delta to Wamako in Sokoto State make difficult decisions. They are forced to…
Deborah Mayersen, UNSW Since conflict erupted in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, in November 2020, there have been widespread reports of atrocities in the region. Hundreds of massacres…
Conrad Hughes, Université de Genève When I was a child I went to school in South Africa. This was the late 1970s. At school, the teachers…
Ayesha Motala, University of KwaZulu-Natal Diabetes is rising at an alarming rate. One in 10 adults worldwide – 537 million people – now live with the…
The United States on Friday sent 9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine doses to countries in Africa and another 2 million doses to other nations, the…
The omicron variant of coronavirus has now been officially confirmed in the four African countries of South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, and Ghana, the Africa Center for…
Following consultations with the Government of Côte d’Ivoire and the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group, the 2021 Africa Investment Forum scheduled for…
The Nigeria Police Force has opened the online application portal for its 2021 recruitment exercise. This was announced in a statement signed by Frank Mba, the…