East African governments have returned from China counting their share of the $60 billion to fund Africa’s mega-infrastructure projects. Rwanda, represented at the Forum on China–Africa...
The Nigerian Academy of Education (NAE) has expressed readiness to partner with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to lift the quality of education...
Unarguably, democracy and good governance go hand in hand to achieve justice and equity for the citizens. In spite of this, observers note with concern that...
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is the Founder and Chairman of Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG), a non profit organisation, established to be a catalyst for high public...
Young Africans speaking out in their thousands on International Youth Day, pledging to share a global message that calls for an end to female genital mutilation...
Harare, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe’s defeated opposition faced a deadline Friday to file its legal challenge to try to overturn the July 30 election result, which has been...
Zimbabwe’s MDC opposition party on Wednesday vowed to overturn in court President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s narrow election victory, alleging that he won the historic vote via “mammoth...
Since 2014, world trade has declined by more than US$3 trillion with Sub-Saharan Africa’s combined exports falling by about 40% – from US$403 billion to less...
To mark Africa Day today, António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General, said all of humanity will benefit by listening, learning and working with the people of Africa....
Africa is standing before a small window of opportunity to grow future-ready leaders equipped to take on a new era of industry. It will be our...
Expanded research by Visa with its Africa Integration Index measures the economic “connectedness” of African economies and the impact on socio-economic development. This year the study...
No longer the ‘hopeless continent’, Africa is rising and fast becoming a lucrative commercial market with enormous investment potential. Despite recent slumps in commodity price exports,...
The World Economic Forum is underway in Durban, South Africa, this week, with a particular focus on the continent of Africa, its opportunities, challenges and future...
EY’s latest Africa Attractiveness report, released today, presents a mixed foreign direct investment (FDI) picture for the continent due to heightened geopolitical uncertainty and “multispeed” growth...
What a difference a century makes. If we stepped back in time to a hundred years ago we’d find a primitive China; a Middle East that...
A few years ago, there was a sense of hope and optimism around Africa. Today that sense has faded and so we need to work to...
The priority for the telecoms industry in 2017 in Africa should be to accelerate deployment of true broadband services so that African users can benefit from...
As the African Union marks 2017 as the ‘Year of Harnessing the Demographic Dividend Through Investments in Youth’, this special edition looks at the many challenges...
Monrovia – K3 Telecom Inc. has launched its IPS operations in Liberia – making the country the first in Africa to benefit from its services. The...
In a city such as London, commuters who travel for an hour to get to work pass 2.5-million jobs on the way, some of which would...