On the eve of Sir Richard Branson flight to space aboard a Virgin Galactic spacecraft at the weekend, Strive Masiyiwa recounts how
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Pan-African businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa recounts what inspired him and his wife to start an education trust that been. supporting gifted
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Ethiopia is bringing Africa into disrepute and Africans should be outraged. Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers are killing and raping civilians in Tigray. Millions are facing
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By Avinash Paliwal Caleb Kudah, a journalist with the Accra-based Citi TV, didn’t expect that an investigation into unused cars at the
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Africa needs follow the European Union's lead and rethink its approach to genetically engineered crops
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By Farai Mutsaka Zimbabwe’s tobacco is flourishing again. And so are the auctions where premium prices are being paid for the “golden
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With the three branches of Zimbabwe’s political system, the executive, legislature and judiciary, striving to advance their roles as contemplated by the
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A traditional court in Zimbabwe has ordered that the remains of former president Robert Mugabe should be exhumed and reburied at the
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By Aimée-Noël Mbiyozo and Ottilia Anna Maunganidze In March 2021, the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU PSC) issued an unprecedented communiqué dedicated
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Paul Emiljanowicz The late Jerry Rawlings led two coups in Ghana before twice being elected president in multiparty polls. Whether you associate
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By Victor Harison and Mario Pezzini Many African countries reacted quickly and effectively to mitigate the health and economic risks posed by COVID-19. Less
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By Fifa Rahman, Felicita Hikuam, Nyasha Chingore-Munazvo, and Gisa Dang* The COVID-19 pandemic is a bleak reminder of the enduring inequity in
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By Sampson Kwarkye More than a year after adopting an action plan to ‘eradicate’ terrorism in West Africa, the Economic Community of
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By Gloria Abena Ampim As the world works towards the goal of gender equality, it’s widely recognised that reaching it requires working
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By Mark Suzman This week, we learned that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca appears to provide no measurable
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The mostly white development sector only funds efforts led by more ‘legitimate’ people. We need support from the diaspora
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Africa cannot afford to continue with the authoritarian, dictatorial and despotic forms of governance that are predominant on the continent.
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Mohamed M Diatta On 6 February, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Félix Tshisekedi will officially take over the rotating chairship
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Malawi faces a resurgence of COVID-19 that is overwhelming the southern African country where a presidential residence and a national stadium have
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Shipping containers have become overflow mortuaries for the dead from COVID-19 in South Africa, while some other African nations are now looking
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By Célestin Monga In recent decades, the US-Africa relationship has disappointed both sides. Republican and Democratic US presidents alike have treated the
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Henning Melber, University of Pretoria and Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand In November 2017 Zimbabwe’s military replaced Robert Mugabe as head
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Barely 3 years ago, Zimbabwe held one of its most contentious elections in the history of the country which can be equally
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For many years, both the Rwandan government and international donors have invested heavily in development programmes aimed at Rwanda’s youth. But how
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Mozambique has always preferred a bilateral intervention, as opposed to a regional one.
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Frustration has reached new heights and earlier this year young people took to social media under the hashtag #FixTheCountry.
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WHO director Tedros Ghebreyesus says developing countries need more vaccines urgently in order to respond to virus mutations
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Political tensions have risen in KwaZulu-Natal province as a result of Zuma’s conviction, sentence and pending arrest
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By Gavin Evans It’s the small crimes that bring you down. Al Capone went merrily on his murdering way until the FBI
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Twenty years ago in South Africa people were dying unable to access expensive antiretrovirals. The creation of the Global Fund was gamechanging
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Ghana would be seizing on an instrument that’s boomed since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pan-African businessman and Econet Group founder Strive Masiyiwa has urged young entrepreneurs to properly register their businesses and pay taxes in the
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Unravelling a US-sanctioned magnate’s links to a complex mining and trading empire
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