By Dakuku Peterside Last week, we started a series about possible scenarios in our match to the decisive year 2023. The year 2023 represents a watershed…
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By Dakuku Peterside Reading through the papers and social media in the past two weeks, I found myself thinking how nothing much seems to have changed…
Former Chadian President Hissène Habré is due to be buried on Thursday. Habre, a security ally of the West during the Cold War, died on Tuesday…
Russian defense orders from African countries amount to $14 billion, with $3 billion coming from sub-Saharan countries, while $11 billion is from North Africa. This was…
Libya and Sudan on Tuesday agreed to begin a regional security agreement to control human trafficking and illegal immigration. Vice-President of the Libyan Presidential Council, Musa…
Human rights group Amnesty International has disclosed that Islamic terrorist groups in West Africa’s Sahel region use weapons originating in Europe – particularly those made in…
Sudan and South Sudan have accepted to open their borders after 11 years. The borders were closed in 2011 when relations deteriorated as the south seceded…
The South African giant in telecommunications, MTN, and compatriot financial services Sanlam are joining their forces to offer insurance products to the telecommunications operator’s subscribers in…
Jacqueline Weyer, National Institute for Communicable Diseases In 2017, two people have from the Marburg virus in eastern Uganda. The Conversation Africa’s Health and Medicine Editor…
Ifenna Ilechukwu, Madonna University, Nigeria Nigeria has about 195,000km of road network, including about 60,000km of paved surfaces. The demand for road construction and highway expansion…