Rains are here, desert is in bloom and now roses perfume the air and Moroccan town comes to life
Outside the town, roses span 1,020 hectares (2,520 acres) across the region this year. One hectare (2.5 acres) of roses requires little water and provides more than 120 days of work in a local economy where opportunities are scarce.
Two years after overthrow President Bongo and family are allowed to leave Gabon for Angola
Former president of Gabon, who was ousted in a 2023 coup, has been allowed to leave the country and has flown to Angola with his family, the Angolan leader’s office said on Friday. The Angolan presidency posted photos on its official Facebook page of Ali Bongo Ondimba arriving in the...
Kenya’s saving and cooperatives movement hits $14 billion as it registers rapid growth
Co-operative Alliance of Kenya Chair Macloud Malonza said the Sacco movement has registered tremendous growth and needed to advance to the next level. Therefore the movement is advocating for a new law that will allow cooperatives to get into the payment system and start offering other financial services like issuing bankers cheques.
Nigeria food security: How water over-extraction, deforestation have created Africa’s hungriest nation
More than 80 per cent of Nigeria’s farmers are smallholder farmers, who account for 90 per cent of the country’s annual agricultural production. Some work their fields with little more than a piece of roughly carved wood and their bare hands.
South African President Ramaphosa meets Trump next week, white South African refugees on agenda
Trump has criticised South Africa’s Black-led government on multiple fronts and issued an executive order February 7 cutting all US funding to the country as punishment for what he said were its anti-white policies at home and anti-American foreign policy.
Why Africa’s youngest leader is a hit: Traore articulates revolutionary message that appeals to youth frustrated by thievery of Western democracy
The latest Traore frenzy reached a new peak late April with a solidarity march in the country’s capital, Ouagadougou, following an alleged coup attempt and comments by Gen Michael Langley, the head of US military in Africa, accusing the Burkina Faso leader of misusing the country’s gold reserves.
Africa: Where an avalanche of ‘honourables’ and ‘excellencies’ do dishonourable things to our environment
Even when they deny others their entitlements such as employment, education, transport, medicines, and various opportunities such serving as soldiers, police officers or business people etc, they retain their titles of honourable, right honourable and excellency. They will retain the tiles even if they are central to generating divisions and conflicts along ethnic lines.
‘We must change the story of Africa by elevating the voices of women and youth’, landmark science conference in Kenya told
essions throughout the week will focus on STI financing, inclusive knowledge systems and resilient innovation ecosystems, aligned with Agenda 2063 and STISA 2034. The conference wraps up on May 8 with a roadmap to embed STI into governance and development, with Kenya positioned as a leading example across the continent.
Poachers on the loose in South African wildlife parks as 100 rhinos are killed in three months
South African authorities have focused in recent years on criminal syndicates they believe are behind much of the country’s rhino poaching.
As African militaries stockpile drones militants are switching to hit-and-run tactics to stretch armies
As African militaries embrace drones as weapons of choice, the sobering reality is that they are not an answer to proliferation of conflicts on the continent. A report published by the African Centre for Strategic Studies on May 2, says African governments need to develop a more complex understanding of...
