Rwandan horrors: Was genocide was part of a political programme of vengeance directed against Hutu?
Hundreds of thousands of people have died in the Great Lakes Region of Africa over the past four years. Most of them were innocent civilians massacred by armies or militias or decimated by disease or starvation as they fled from danger. These horrors can be traced to intense struggles overpower...
Africa: There is need to rethink teaching; the greatest teachers like Jesus Christ, Socrates, Albert Einstein, etc, had no degrees
It is common these days to come across learners complaining, like Galileo did more than 450 years ago, that their teachers and professors do not put their own thinking and ideas in their teaching; that they regurgitate writings of others, which they coerce them to reproduce in examinations to earn grades and/or degrees. While the situation is not too bad in the West, it is becoming serious in poor countries such as Uganda where knowledge workers now find it a burden to read and write and/or what they write are reproductions of the minds of their lecturers and professors.
African teams at Fifa Women’s World Cup 2023: Nigeria’s Falcons storm Round of 16 in style
Has an African nation ever won Women’s World Cup? In the previous eight editions of the tournament, no African side has ever won the Women’s World Cup. Additionally, even when African sides have made the knockout rounds of the tournament, none have been able to win a knockout game at the Women’s World Cup.
Niger coup, seventh in Sahel region, alarms West Africa economic bloc, which threatens sanctions
ECOWAS and the eight-member West African Economic and Monetary Union said that with immediate effect borders with Niger would be closed, commercial flights banned, financial transactions halted, national assets frozen and aid ended.
Arab-Africa trade agency launches $1.5 billion food security programme in Egypt
The executive committee of the Arab-Africa Trade Bridges (AATB) Programme, a multi-donor, Inter-regional programme has launched a $1.5 billion food security programme to address the issues of food insecurity in the Arab and African regions amidst the ongoing global food security crisis. The crisis is a critical challenge facing the...
UN: While pace of development in poor countries is fast, Africa and India’s population is sprinting
An obstacle to development according to Amare is that many countries in Africa rely on exporting unprocessed natural resources, like mining oil and gas and agriculture rather than developing an economy which sends out higher value finished products.
Caught between a rock and a hard place, Nigerians in northeast live perpetual in fear of Boko Haram insurgents, military
In more than 30 interviews in the northeastern town of Bama in late 2022, men and women described the depopulation of the countryside by military “clearance” operations that they said had torched their villages, destroyed food supplies and killed those unable to flee.
Africa’s illiterate professors: It is difficult to use graduates of our universities as agents of uniting our countries
For lack of commitment to true freedom and democracy, many rulers of Africa have facilitated re-penetration of their countries by their former colonial masters and the newer economic and political forces of USA, Russia and China. They have allowed their universities to continue as if they are still manifesting in the colonial times. To meaningfully and effectively achieve continental or regional unity or integration, there must be a cluster of universities structurally and functionally oriented towards integration.
Chinese mining company opens a giant lithium – used in electric car batteries – plant in Zimbabwe
Lithium is a key component for electric vehicle batteries. To cash in on demand, Zimbabwe last year banned the export of raw lithium ore. In doing so, it joined countries like Indonesia and Chile that are trying to maximise their return on deposits of lithium, cobalt and nickel by requiring miners to invest locally in refining and processing before they can export.
Donors in plan to build Libya’s food resilience against a backdrop of scarcity, political upheavals
The African Development Bank has rolled out a $1.5 billion African Emergency Food Production Facility to boost food security and nutrition. Launched in May last year, the facility is helping Africa mitigate rising food prices and inflation, worsened by climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, and Russia’s war in Ukraine. The bank also co-organised a food summit in January in Dakar, Senegal, which produced food compacts for African countries.
