UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has sacked the commander of a peacekeeping force in South Sudan following a damning report that accused the blue helmets of failing to protect civilians during an...
Ghanaian actor and Mr Ghana 2016 third runner-up, Raymond Kyerematen, recently represented Ghana at the 2016 edition of Mr Africa International pageant in London on October 22. Even though he lost...
Since President J. A. Kufuor, about eight years ago, proposed the extension of the presidential mandate limit, it is now getting some attention, and sooner than later it will become a national...
There’s an African proverb which goes: “If the owner of the land leads you, you cannot get lost.” Between November 7 and 18, over 195 countries and parties of United Nations Framework...
Kenya will use the East Africa Oil & Gas Summit to highlight its progress in implementing infrastructure projects aimed at spurring regional trade by linking the country with Uganda, South Sudan and...
Ethnic tension is rising in South Sudan’s Bahr-el-Ghazal state where leaflets ordering those from Central Equatoria to leave or face elimination were found. It is feared that the Dinka may be...
A group of around 150 armed rebels have abducted at least 30 children after they attacked two schools in South Sudan's Amadi state, the state governor Joseph Ngere has told the BBC's Focus on Africa...
Ethnic Mursi women with a Lip plate (lip cup) carrying a pot and holding her baby with one hand at Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Women of the Mursi tribe may have their lips cut at the age of 15 or 16. A...
Institutions of state bending to the will and wishes of the incumbent spark anger, frustration and eventual societal implosion. When an incumbent's back is to the wall and is desperate, it would...
Kenya will shrug off the slump in growth on the continent to be among the best performing economies in Sub Saharan Africa. The continent is set to slow to its lowest level in more than 20 years. The...
The United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon has urged all Member States to give their full backing to Secretary-General-designate Antonio Manuel de Guterres to continue the global mission...
Despite the failure of the Middle East policy, the United States has not abandoned its strategy aimed at global domination to be reached with the help of military might. Libya, Somalia and Mali may...
South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar says he could return to the turbulent country as early as next month, even if he has to enter the way he fled — on foot. He has begun speaking out again after a...
Despite conflicts and instability in some parts, Africa’s fast growth and development, at least during the past decade, has attracted several external countries mainly from Asian region, European...
Presidents are supposed to wield their power with as much grace and restraint as possible but sometimes, the commander-in-chief turns into the disciplinarian-in-chief. We’ve made a list of the...
This used to be South Sudan's second largest city, a bustling center on the White Nile River of more than 120,000 people, many employed in the oil fields nearby. Today Malakal is rubble and almost...
There is a long way to go to revitalise the country Democratic governance like the way Nigerian secret police, the Department of State Services DSS, formerly known as Nigerian Security organisation,...
South Sudan's former Vice-President Riek Machar says he is "broke" and struggling to pay rent for the house where his family lives in Kenya, the Nairobi-based The Star newspaper reports. His...
On Wednesday, February 11, 2015, a Kenya Airways employee in charge of treasury and controls, received the first of several payments from the collapsed Dubai Bank — $20,000. By the end of June of...
Riek Machar, who was sacked as South Sudan's vice-president in July after heavy clashes in the capital, Juba, is in South Africa to receive medical treatment, according his spokesman, quoted by...
