Aquaponics Farming Helps Ugandan Women Regain Lost Livelihoods From The Pandemic
KAMPALA, Uganda — On a hill above Kampala’s city suburb of Ntinda, new farmer Peace Mukulungu looks over her aquaponics farming project she says is slowly allowing her to...
Sudanese Professionals Association With South Sudanese Activists Discuss Refugees’ Condition In Sudan
Khartoum, June 22 — In a meeting that gathered activists from South Sudan with the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) headquarters in Burri—Khartoum, a number of issues related to the...
South Sudanese TV journalist ditches own job to join rebel movement
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — A swell of laughs and chatter fills the air as men and women dine and wine.
The spectacle grabs the attention of a group of...
Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters at the party’s ten-year anniversary...
Train Accident In Tanzania Highlight Country’s Vulnerability To Extreme Weather
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — The fatal accident of a passenger train which derailed on Sunday, January 3rd near Tanzania’s capital city, Dodoma, killing three people while injuring 66...
Sudanese Parties Signed Agreement in Juba
Juba, August 17 — The Sudanese government together with Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North/Revolutionary Front signed the security arrangements protocol at the Pyramids Hotel in the capital of South Sudan—Juba.
The...
Uganda Oil Companies Shrug Off Environmental Concerns To Advance $10 Billion Oil Project
KAMPALA, Uganda — The Ugandan government, backed by French and Chinese investors recently announced a final investment decision to kick start the long-delayed development of Uganda’s vast crude oil...
Escalating Discrimination Against People With Albinism In Zimbabwe
Mberengwa — As a teacher, she has had very few associates. Back home, visiting relatives whisper behind her back apparently disgusted by her condition of albinism. Now, 43-year old Lindani...
Aid To Africa: A Deceptive Neo-Colonial Tool Enforcing Mental Slavery Without Restraint
“The root of the disease was political. The treatment could only be political. Of course, we encourage aid that aids us in doing away with aid. But in general,...
Ghana’s Quest For A National Cathedral Has An Immoral Foundation
The burning cross of the Ku Klux Klan registers starkly as I think about Ghana’s National Cathedral project. What was meant to be a symbol of faith and morality...
Poverty clobbers Zimbabwe’s mineral-rich areas
MARANGE — His two thatched huts lay side by side overlooking a stream beyond which stood mounds of soils dug up from the diamond mining claims in the vicinity...
African Leaders’ Silence On George Floyd’s Murder Too Loud
May 30 — On Wednesday, May 25th, four police officers detained a black man by the name George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States of America.
After the...
Zimbabwe’s Rural Township In Worsening Dereliction
Rutenga, June 5 — On a dusty plain, aging shops lie in a file opposite each other, abandoned, with few signs of life around, yet with few impoverished villagers...
Thousands Denied Healthcare In Cameroon As Suspension On Medical Charity Persists
Tens of thousands of people are missing out on free essential healthcare services in the restive English-speaking North West Region of Cameroon as the government maintains a suspension on...
South Sudanese Activists in Sudan Support, Educate Poor Families on Coronavirus
Khartoum, June 1 — A group of youths from South Sudan in Khartoum the capital of Sudan undertook a voluntary awareness initiative called "The Winners Charitable Initiative."
According to their...
Cameroon Audit Exposes Extensive Misuse Of COVID-19 Funds
Several government officials, including ministers, charged with the country’s Coronavirus response have been found wanting in their spending of COVID-19 funds, according to a recently leaked preliminary report by...
Zimbabwe struggles with rural, urban poverty
GOKWE, Zimbabwe — A one-room home structure made of poles plastered with mud, roofed with a single zinc sheet, with a gaping wooden door stands side by side with...
Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) Rejects Targeting Of Refugees
Khartoum, June 25 — A delegation from the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) secretariat visited the Al-Sheqla camp in which a refugee from South Sudan was recently killed.
The delegation listened...
Kenya Wildlife’s plan to build a hotel in the Nairobi National Park attracts an...
In the past decades, the Nairobi National Park has not missed accompanying the word ‘encroachment’ in one sentence. This has always been the case of activists and environmentalists seeking...
Towards The Progressive Acquisition Of Consciousness
Africans and other blacks abroad need to develop a historical consciousness that enables them to revisit their forefathers’ history to validate the true journey of the black race. Slavery,...
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Operation Dudula
There is no direct translation for the word Dudula in the English language, but the president of the organization that started off as a...
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Economic Freedom In Our Lifetime
A packed FNB stadium with over one hundred thousand supporters demonstrated the mass appeal of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) amongst South African voters...
Organization Of African First Ladies For Development
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"I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015." President Buhari ended his farewell speech with this...
IMF And World Bank: The ‘Bad Samaritans’ And Neoliberals Cheating Africa Into A Cycle...
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