At a security exhibition in Morocco tech companies pushed to convince African officials that their state-of-the-art surveillance tools are the key to stability and development. The…
Browsing: Africa
The $400 billion plan focuses on six projects aiming to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
The demonstration coincided with the anniversary of the pro-reform February 20 movement, born out of the Arab Spring protests of 2011.
28 out of 49 countries have laws penalising same-sex relationships
In Nigeria, successful pop singer Banky W (Olubankole Wellington) is running in the country’s parliamentary elections on February 16th. The star is seeking to get young people more interested in politics, in order to blow away cobwebs and bring about social change. In Nigeria, even though those under 25 make up 60 percent of the population, the two leading Presidential candidates are both in their seventies.
The NBA and FIBA have announced a 12-team basketball league for Africa that will begin in January 2020. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, said the Basketball Africa…
Mali, Senegal, South Africa and Nigeria will now represent the continent at the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup
At the expense of news items deemed less worthy, the continental stories that make it into the primetime spotlight are often those cherry-picked by foreign actors whose interests hardly, if ever, hold the best intentions for Africans. And when we leave our storytelling to people who do not care about what matters to us, what matters to us never gets told.
That’s why we are here. We are putting Africa.First.
To build strong communities, Africans need news they can trust. To deliver it, journalists need to come by their funding honestly.
Places where you can go to celebrate love