Teams of Chinese doctors have set off to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso to support efforts to fight coronavirus pandemic, state-owned China Global Television Network reports. Their exact number unspecified, but they are drawn from Sichuan Province and Tianjin Municipality. They left for Africa on Thursday according to China’s foreign ministry. They will share experience, provide […]
African governments have teamed up to fight the alleged acts of racial discrimination against their nationals residing in China. Last week, there were widespread videos and various reports of some ‘ill-treatment’ being meted out to Africans in the Chinese city, Guangzhou, including eviction from places of residence, being avoided in public, among others. Though China […]
Through his institute, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), the former British Prime Minister has set up cells of experts to assist Heads of State in accelerating their priority projects. Restrained applause rippled across the hall in London on 18 February when Tony Blair proferred advice to Britain’s Labour party as it celebrated […]
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has capped a whirlwind tour of Africa by pledging to move to the continent for several months in 2020. Dorsey said in a message on the social media platform that he didn’t know where he would be living, but he planned to spend up to half of next year in Africa. “Sad […]
Co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Jack Ma has described his visit to Ghana as the most important one yet in Africa. He made the remark in his welcome address at the African Netpreneur Conference in Accra. He said “This is my fourth trip to Africa and this is the most important trip for me […]
Two nuns are now under investigation by the Catholic church after they fell pregnant while carrying out missionary work in Africa. The two women, from different orders in Sicily, were on separate charity assignments on the continent. One 34-year-old woman only found out she was pregnant when she went to hospital complaining of stomach pains. […]
Ghana has been selected as the country to host the secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). A review committee said Ghana was awarded the right based on regional balance formula. Ghana beat six other countries; namely, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar and Senegal, which had submitted their bids to host the secretariat. […]
A new study has shown polygamous families thrive better than monogamous ones in poor communities. As a result of the study, researchers are now calling for greater cultural sensitivity among campaigners seeking to ban polygamy. The research carried out in households from Tanzania showed polygamous families owned more cattle and farmed more land than monogamous […]
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has described president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a visionary leader, whose type Africa needs to progress. Speaking at a forum organized by the Africa Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), the Executive Chairman of the Dangote Group said the continent needs the likes of president Akufo-Addo to get out of […]
Self-acclaimed security expert, Irbard Ibrahim has lashed out at men who go out of their way to support women to excel academically and economically, saying such empowerment tends in the end to hurt the men. According to him, women tend to look down on the same men who pushed them up the academic and economic […]
President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has hit hard at Africans once again, this time asking whether they are really qualified to be called humans. He says “if you sit on Gold, diamond, oil, manganese, uranium and your people don’t have food, are you humans?”. See Mr. Trump’s five strong questions he […]
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Madam Christine Madeiline Lagarde, says African countries would not sustain their economies by borrowing. She admonished sub-Saharan African countries to enhance their domestic tax mobilisation to sustain their economies and help them to remain sovereign. Borrowing for investment risky She warned that relying on borrowing for […]
