Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a veteran feminist activist and politician was appointed Wednesday by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the new executive director of UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of [Read more]
Joseph Shabala and his South African multiple Grammy Award winning choral group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo that first gained worldwide prominence from their collaboration with Paul Simon on his 1986 Graceland [Read more]
Benny Steinmetz acquired half of the iron deposit underneath the Simandou mountains in Guinea in 2008. Simandou is one of the richest concessions in all of mining. It is said to [Read more]
For the first time, the U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program is offering rewards for information on key leaders of terrorist organizations in West Africa: al-Qaida in the [Read more]
The growing importance of the Caribbean in foreign direct investment and its relevancy to global economic growth was high on top of the agenda at the recently concluded third annual [Read more]
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 77 percent of women in Nigeria use skin-lightening products, the world’s highest percentage. That compares with 59 percent in Togo, and 27 percent [Read more]
Africa is one of the regions in the world with the highest visa requirements “Africa is one of the regions in the world with the highest visa requirements. Visa restrictions [Read more]
Charity and aid have failed Africa and its leading entrepreneurs are now driving the continent’s development agenda This was the sentiment of Tony Elumelu’s speech, described by many as “powerful,” [Read more]
PRESS RELEASE MARRAKECH, Morocco, May 30, 2013/ — Finance Vice President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Charles Boamah will host an online press conference on the last day of [Read more]
Sierra Leone's Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Nations, Mr. Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu, has called for the creation of an African -based media system like the Arab media net work, Al [Read more]
International Women’s Day is a day of celebration and a day of challenge, often rolled into one. In realising how far we have come towards ensuring genuine equality of opportunity [Read more]
In less than a week, Columbia University’s African student associations comprising of Columbia’s prestigious Law School, Graduate School of International and Public Affairs, Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia’s [Read more]
Somewhere in AFRICA one woman dies every minute of every day from causes related to pregnancy and birth. The hardest pill to swallow for even the most successful African [Read more]
Unemployment remains rife on the African continent. With almost 200 million people aged between 15 and 24 in Africa today, the youth community represents more than 60 per cent of [Read more]
ACCRA, Ghana, February 1, 2013/ — K-NET (http://www.knetgh.com), a leading African telecommunications company offering triple-play voice, data and video services across sub-Saharan Africa, is pleased to announce the launch a [Read more]
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