President Akufo-Addo Meets UK Labour Party Leader
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Monday, 16th April, 2018, met with the leader of the UK’s Labour Party ...
Tag: Democratic Republic of Congo
Dozens Killed In DR Congo Violence
More than 33 people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...
Letter From Africa: Mugabe ‘unloved’ On His Birthday
In our series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe considers the fate of ousted President Robert Mugabe as ...
Ugandan Officials ‘created Fake Refugees’
Four Ugandan government officials have been suspended amid allegations of inflating refugee figures. According to the Guardian, the country’s commissioner ...
Akufo-Addo Ends 3-Day Official Visit To Equatorial Guinea
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo returned to Ghana on Wednesday after his three-day official visit to Equatorial Guinea, with the ...
Recent Disaster A Cause For Concern For Africans
Congo Mudslide -The Democratic Republic of Congo experienced a massive mudslide on Wednesday, August 16, an incident which has reportedly claimed ...
Meet Lt Gen Obed Boamah Akwa–Chief of Defence Staff
Lt Gen Obed Boamah Akwa was born on 20 June, 1955. He went through various first cycle educational institutions in the ...
UN Pushes DR Congo To Abide By Deal On Elections
The UN Security Council on Wednesday warned that the Democratic Republic of Congo and the region could face further turmoil ...
UN Names Experts For DR Congo Massacres Probe
The United Nations named three international experts on Wednesday to investigate atrocities in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic ...
Rwanda Targets High-End Tourist Market
Nicaraguan singer Hernaldo Zuniga brought his entire family to trek through the lush forests and mist-shrouded volcanoes of northwestern Rwanda ...
UN Sees 70% Shortfall In Aid For South Sudan Refugees
Only 30 percent of $1.4 billion aid needed in 2017 for refugees fleeing the conflict in South Sudan has been ...
UN Says Moroccan Peacekeeper Killed In Central African Republic
An ambush killed a Moroccan peacekeeper and wounded three others on Sunday in the Central African Republic, the United Nations ...
DR Congo Opposition Unveil Plans To Force Kabila Out
The Congolese opposition on Saturday unveiled a rolling programme of strikes and civil disobedience aimed at forcing President Joseph Kabila ...
$750m of Congo Mining Revenue ‘missing’
More than 20% of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mining revenue is being lost due to corruption and mismanagement, a ...
AfroBasket 2017 Groups Released
Co-Host of this year’s African Nations Championship (AfroBasket) Tunisia has been handed a relative easy group for the upcoming competition ...
US Opposes Seat For DRCongo At UN Rights Council
The United States on Wednesday berated African countries for backing a bid by the Democratic Republic of Congo to win ...
UN To Close Five Peacekeepers’ Bases In Eastern DRCongo
Five UN peacekeepers' bases in the Democratic Republic of Congo are to close at the end of July, the UN ...
Aid and Conditionality: Enhancing Good Governance In Sub-Saharan Africa
The persistent low state of development in sub-Saharan Africa has become a global challenge. Academics and think-tanks continue to search ...
CAF ‘think Tank’ To Mull Africa Cup of Nations Changes
New-look Africa Cup of Nations and CAF Champions League competitions could emerge this week from discussions in Morocco that will ...
Tribal Militia Kidnap Two Priests In DR Congo
Tribal militia forces have kidnapped two Roman Catholic priests in the troubled North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of ...