Hundreds of thousands of Ivory Coast’s displaced people are too scared to return home as security forces and a state-backed militia are carrying out ethnically targeted killings and attacks against Gbagbo supporters. The post-election violence, that has left the population unable to leave the relative safety of temporary camps, is being carried out by the [...]
Google and mobile phone operator Orange have announced a strategic partnership that will facilitate access to the growing mobile internet market in Africa. The partnership, that will leverage Orange’s SMS platform to bring Google’s services to African customers, will enable Orange’s mobile customers to stay in touch with their Google services and Google users to [...]
The worst drought in two decades has left about 11 million East Africans in acute need of food and water. Western NGOs are urging people to donate money while images of malnourished children appear on the world’s TV screens. Is Africa still the helpless and weak continent the media portrayed it to be twenty years [...]
Jane Weru, the head of the NGO Akiba Mashinan Trust is to receive an innovation award from the Rockefeller Foundation for Her Progressive Work with the Poor and vulnerable in Kenya. Kenya’s Jane Weru, who has worked to build a movement of self-empowerment and community-led solutions for slum dwellers, has since last year through her [...]
A ‘currency war’ is about to erupt between South Sudan and Khartoum after the north issued a new currency. The South Sudanese government is now furious as they claim the move by Khartoum can cost the poverty-struck nation almost $700 million. Khartoum’s move follows the issuing of South Sudan’s new currency, the South Sudanese Pound, [...]
African countries constitute six of the 10 fastest-growing economies in the world and the continent is predicted to develop the world’s highest average GDP growth over the next 40 years. Out of 11 booming African nations that have already achieved at least 7% annual growth, three countries have achieved an annual growth by 10%, making [...]
South Africa is celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 93rd birthday by urging people to undertake 67 minutes of voluntary work to honour the 67 years Mandela dedicated to fight apartheid in the country. Mandela, who has not appeared at a public engagement since the closing ceremony of the football World Cup in July 2010, is spending the [...]
Warnings have come from UN officials over the worsening of the humanitarian crisis in East Africa because of the harsh drought and conflict in Somalia, with concerns about tens of thousands of children dying. This is Africa’s worse drought in more than 60 years with the food crisis affecting more than 12 million people across [...]
South Sudan has been admitted as the 193rd member state of the United Nations after the Security Council recommended the General Assembly to make way for the new country’s membership. The young African state is the first country to join the international body since Montenegro joined in 2006. The assembly’s decision followed South Sudan’s independence [...]
African development is more effective when lead by African states and citizens, the new findings from the Overseas Development Institute shows. The report calls for a new outlook as it identified effective leadership, smart policies, institutional foundations and international partnerships as crucial roles needed to be played in development. Ghana has proved a star performer [...]
