Central Africa
US Troops Hunting LRA Warlord Kony Begin C.Africa Pullout
US special forces on Wednesday began to pull out from Central Africa, ending a five-year hunt for brutal LRA warlord...
After Six Years, US Troops End Hunt For LRA Warlord Kony
US special forces on Wednesday begin pulling out of Central African Republic where they deployed in 2011 to help hunt...
Hope As C. Africa Holds Disarmanent Talks
The Central African Republic held unprecedented talks with armed groups this week seeking to speed up disarmament in a...
People With Albinism ‘living In Fear’
Malawi's refusal to push forward with prosecuting suspects accused of attacking and killing people with albinism has...
Rise In Boko Haram Child Suicide Bombers ‘alarming’
An "alarming" number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the first...
Death Toll Revised In Zimbabwe Bus Crash
Cross-border buses are popular among informal traders who travel to buy goods for resale A passenger bus accident on...
GIPC Wins Best Project In West and Central Africa Region Award In Dubai
The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has won an award for Best Project in West and Central Africa Region for...
The Beneficent Winds of Kumbungu
By: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. The name Kumbungu, a township of some three communities in the Northern Region of...
US To End Operations Against Lord’s Resistance Army In Africa
A top US military commander has said the LRA has been reduced to "irrelevance" after years of joint military operations...
Operations Against Kony’s LRA ‘coming To An End’
The US military is wrapping up operations against the Lord's Resistance Army in central Africa, even though its leader...
At Least 50 Killed By Armed Men In CAfrica
At least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured since Tuesday after armed men attacked three villages in...
116 Million African Children To Get Polio Vaccines
The World Health Organization said Friday 116 million children are to receive polio vaccines in 13 countries in west...
French National Abducted In Chad
A French civilian has been abducted in the central African nation of Chad, French authorities said on Thursday. The...
GIABA Holds Workshop On Revised FATF Methodology
The Akufo-Addo administration has re-affirmed Ghana’s commitment to fight money laundering, terrorism financing,...
Treaty Slows Global Tobacco Use By 2.5%
Tobacco use fell by 2.5 percent worldwide a decade after the first global health treaty went into effect, World Health...
All Passengers Survive ‘miraculous’ Landing
A commercial plane on Monday made a crash landing in poor weather at an airport in South Sudan, causing several...
The Africa CEO Forum Needs Rethinking
I am still straggling to hypothesize a reason that might have informed the decision to host the Africa CEOs forum in...
Central Africa’s Transition To Peace Still Elusive
With a spike in militia killings, a deepening humanitarian crisis and the army still in shambles, the Central African...
Ahmad Ahmad -Issa Hayatou’s Toughest Challenge
The long awaited Confederation of African Football -CAF elections, is finally here. As a matter of fact, elections are...