On June 4, right out of the blue, President Muhammadu Buhari announced the post-humous award of Nigeria’s highest national honour to the presumed winner of the controversial but now epochal June
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UN signals new era of partnership with Africa, Increased attention may prevent conflict on the continent With United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as a guest at the African Union
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Voices of young Africans are becoming difficult to ignore A new wave is sweeping across Africa. Elections on the continent are increasingly yielding younger leadership than ever before. From
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Training young African leaders can take societies to great heights Thanks to a unique fellowship at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) as an Ibrahim Leadership Fellow, Marian
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South Africa’s second biggest city averts a water crisis—for now Mohammed Allie’s wife has given up showers while Cape Town, South Africa’s second-largest city after Johannesburg,
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Mobilising the young for peace and development I was born in 1990, a year after the Liberian civil war began, and was only 13 years old when the war ended in 2003. Gwendolyn Myers My mother
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Standing up for women’s rights in South Africa’s parliament Phumzile Van Damme, one of the youngest members of parliament in South Africa, is also the shadow minister for communications.
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Call the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) a child of necessity, you won’t be far from the mark The Afreximbank was birthed in 1993 following the commodities price shock and debt crisis
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President Ernest Bai Koroma The trauma and triumph of Sierra Leone in the last couple of years can be captured in the seminal message of a world renowned philosopher: “When we meet
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The Nigerian economy slipped into a recession in the second quarter of 2016. This followed the report of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which showed another unhealthy growth in Nigeria’s
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