According to the Pew Charitable Trust, the ocean generates economic benefits worth $2.5trn annually. “If the ocean were its own national economy, it would be the seventh largest in the world,”...
Every year, an estimated $88.6 billion, which is equivalent to 3.7% of Africa’s GDP, leaves the continent in the form of illicit capital, according to UN trade and development agency UNCTAD’s...
Victims and their family members are demanding justice for the killings of more than 150 demonstrators, rapes, and other crimes committed by the Guinean security forces on September 28, 2009 in a...
When the coronavirus first began spreading around the world, there was near-universal concern among experts that countries in Africa could be hit particularly hard, with high rates of transmission...
A song from South Africa that has gone around the world and been endorsed by presidents and priests has become the sound of the COVID-19 pandemic for millions across southern Africa.
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At a lecture to peers this month, John Nkengasong showed images that once dogged Africa, with a magazine cover declaring it “The Hopeless Continent.”
Then he quoted Ghana’s first president...
Nigerian authorities should investigate the recent attacks on journalists Samson Adenekan and Offem Nathaniel Ubanga, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists...
With President Bush in 2004. Still supported by U.S. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
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Forty years ago, a poor thug and a loser in an election in Uganda declared that he...
The potential for business investment in Africa is seen by many companies, like Mastercard Foundation, as enormous.
In 2007, a search firm contacted Reeta Roy, F89, with a surprising...
I think you have "Filtered HTML" turned on here. If you switch to "Full HTML," it will probably...
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