Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia addressing the Security Council on April 9, 2018, in regard to...
Russia Refutes Chemical Attack in Syria Video + Transcript
Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia addressing the Security Council on April 9, 2018, in regard to an alleged chemical attack in the suburban Damascus city of Douma. Thank you. If you believe it is a great pleasure for me to speak about the issue we will talk about now, and …
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Fidel Castro’s son Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart commits suicide after battling depression
The eldest son of late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide on Thursday...
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Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau killed by Chad security forces
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Israel to become a member of the African Union
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed the desire for Israel to become a member of the African Union, i...
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President Akufo-Addo, ”Homosexuality is against Ghanaian’s tradition.”
. Speaking on Aljazeera’s ‘Talk to Al Jazeera’ programme hosted by Jane Dutton Al-Jazeera during the president’s recent...
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Nana Addo and Emmanuel Macron: Ghana wants trade and investment co-operations not aid
Ghana is ready to deepen its ties with France to ensure mutual prosperity, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said. Th...
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Africa solidarity seen as ‘pillar of Palestinian struggle’
Senior Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzouk has praised African states for the solidarity they have shown Palestinians in thei...
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Toothless Pan-African Parliament could have meaningful powers. Here’s how
The Pan-African Parliament was established by the African Union in 2004. Since then it has not passed a single la...
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After decades of research, why is AIDS still rampant?
Today is World AIDS Day. More than three decades after the virus was first discovered, 5,753 people will become HIV infe...
FEATURE
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Russia Refutes Chemical Attack in Syria Video + Transcript
Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia addressing the Security Council on April 9, 2018, in regard to...
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A year of illusions: five things we learnt about democracy in Africa in 2017
The last twelve months have been a confusing time for African democracy. We have seen coups that didn’t look like...
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West Africa: Empirehood and Colonialism offer lessons in integration
The dream of the founding fathers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was, among others, to...
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The EU-Africa summit is now the AU-EU summit. Why the upgrade matters
African and European heads of government gathered last week in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, for their 5th summit since...
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Why traditional healers could have a role to play in fighting HIV
Many cultures and societies throughout the world turn to traditional healers to find out why they are ill and to...
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How HIV became a treatable, chronic disease
It has been almost 35 years since the world was introduced to the term AIDS. In the 1980s, researchers and physic...
AFRICA
Protecting cassava from disease? There’s an app for that
Cassava is one of the developing world’s most important crops. Its starchy roots and leaves are a staple foo...
Global malaria report reveals Africa’s hits and misses: here’s what to do
icture of the work required to control malaria. Data from over 90 countries reveals a dramatic reduction in the rat...
NIGERIA
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau killed by Chad security forces
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau killed by Chad security forces today Developing story
Nigeria to fly home stranded migrants from Libya
Image captionLibyan has increased the repatriation of Nigerians in recent months Nigerian migrants stranded in Liby...
SOUTH AFRICA
Miss South Africa wins Miss Universe
Miss South Africa Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters has been crowned Miss Universe, making her only the second South African to...
A belated open letter to Mosiuoa Lekota on “White people didn’t steal the land, they bought it legally”
Dear Mr. Lekota I must apologise profusely for this late response to your interview and am responding today as a re...
CAMEROON
SDO of Manyu ask villagers to relocate as President Biya vows to fight Cameroon’s ‘separatist terrorism’
The SDO of Manyu division sent a communique on Friday asking villagers in the affected areas of Akwaya, Eyumojock a...
Fire engulfs Cameroon National Assembly
The main parliament building in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé has been badly damaged by fire which ripped through four...
KENYA
Kenya president lifts travel restrictions. All Africans can get visa on arrival
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Tuesday that any African can get a visa on arrival in Kenya, and will be fr...
Kenyatta sworn in for second term as Kenya’s president
Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in for a second five-year term as president of Kenya in a colourful ceremony that few...
USA & CANADA
Russia Refutes Chemical Attack in Syria Video + Transcript
Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia addressing the Security Council on April 9, 2018, in rega...
North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile Test
File photo of a North Korea missile test via CBS News North Korea launched its latest ballistic missile Tuesday, th...
UNITED KINGDOM
UK sets conditions to help Zimbabwe
The UK could help Zimbabwe's new government to stabilise its currency system and could give it a bridging loan...
FRANCE
Nana Addo and Emmanuel Macron: Ghana wants trade and investment co-operations not aid
Ghana is ready to deepen its ties with France to ensure mutual prosperity, President Nana Akufo-Addo ha...
GERMANY
Germany enters political no-man’s land as Angela Merkel wrestles with election fallout
Daniel Hough, University of Sussex Angela Merkel is in trouble. Serious trouble. Negotiations to form t...
RUSSIA
Russia Refutes Chemical Attack in Syria Video + Transcript
Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia addressing the Security Council on April 9, 2018, in...
ASIA PACIFIC
North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile Test
File photo of a North Korea missile test via CBS News North Korea launched its latest ballistic missile Tuesda...
LATIN AMERICA
Fidel Castro’s son Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart commits suicide after battling depression
The eldest son of late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide on...
MIDDLE EAST
Russia Refutes Chemical Attack in Syria Video + Transcript
Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia addressing the Security Council on April 9, 2018, in rega...
Israel to become a member of the African Union
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed the desire for Israel to become a member of the African Uni...
CARIBBEANS
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Miss Jamaica’s Afro sends Twitter wild
Miss South Africa may have taken the crown in last night's Miss Universe pageant - but everyone on Twitter was talk...
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Four things the Paradise Papers tell us about global business and political elites
Ronen Palan, City, University of London The so-called Paradise Papers may sound familiar – leaked documents from a...
ACADEMIC MEDIA
The concept of ‘western civilisation’ is past its use-by date in university humanities departments
Catharine Coleborne, University of Newcastle A number of NSW and ACT universities are vying for the opportunity to...
Global MBA Rankings 2018, US schools dominate top 20
Harvard sits atop the 232 schools included in the Global MBA Rankings 2018. The first-ever MBA program continues to...
FRANCAIS
«Pas à moi de réparer votre électricité»: Macron au président du Burkina qui quitte la salle
Devant les étudiants de l'université de Ougadougou, Emmanuel Macron a déclenché l'hilarité de l'assistance aux...
PORTUGUES
Sul-africanos querem que o governo “tire as mãos” das mídias sociais
Uma favela na África do Sul. Sul-africanos querem que seu governo dê mais atenção aos problemas sociais do paí...
ESPANOL
Derechos de los niños
Millones de niños no tienen acceso a educación, trabajan extensas jornadas en condiciones riesgosas y son obli...
SWAHILI
Ujerumani yamgusia Waziri wa Uingereza
Ujerumani imesema kuchaguliwa kwa Boris Johnson kuwa Waziri wa Mambo ya Nje wa Uingereza ni msimamo wa nchi hi...
SCOLARSHIPS
Chinese Government Scholarship-Great Wall Program
The Great Wall Program is a full scholarship established by the Chinese Ministry of Educationfor the United Na...
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40 UNESCO/POLAND Co-Sponsored Fellowships in Engineering, 2017-2018
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University of Westminster Fully-Funded Scholarship for Developing Countries in UK, 2017
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50 Accommodation Scholarships for Developing Countries at International Student House in the UK, 2017
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Scholarship for Developing Countries at INSEAD Business School Campuses, 2018
SPORTS
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BBC African Footballer of the Year 2017: The five contenders
The five-man shortlist of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Naby Keita, Sadio Mane, Victor Moses and Mohamed Salah has been rev...
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Former Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna has died at the age of 49.
The Czech player lost her long battle with cancer and died peacefully surrounded by her family, according to the WTA. J...
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Michael Emenalo: Chelsea technical director leaves after 10 years
Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo has stepped down from his post after 10 years with the club. The 52-year-old,...
BUSINESS
Nana Addo and Emmanuel Macron: Ghana wants trade and investment co-operations not aid
Ghana is ready to deepen its ties with France to ensure mutual prosperity, President Nana Akufo-Addo has sai...
What needs to be done to give Africa’s smallholder farmers access to machinery
Mechanisation of agricultural has become a priority across many African countries as the continent gears up...
TECHNOLOGY
2017 Preview: Cyber power presents new prospects and perils
Cyber power presents new risks to global politics, security, and commerce. Analyzing the emerging cyber-threat envi...
Why did humans evolve big penises but small testicles?
Mark Maslin, UCL Humans have a much longer and wider penis than the other great apes. Even the largest of gorillas,...
AGRICULTURE
Protecting cassava from disease? There’s an app for that
Cassava is one of the developing world’s most important crops. Its starchy roots and leaves are a staple foo...
Why African countries banning imports of fruit and veg is a blunt tool
Calestous Juma, Harvard University Zambia’s government has just banned the imports of some farm produce as a way of...
ENVIRONMENT
West Africa’s biggest solar farm launched in Burkina Faso.
West Africa’s biggest solar farm has been launched in Burkina Faso. It is a 33-megawatt plant designed to power ten...
Africa’s tropical forests could be next in line as global food demand grows
Elsa Ordway, Stanford University At a bare floored restaurant on the edge of the Dja Faunal Reserve in Cameroon, I...
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Garbage mountains continue to litter the streets in Cameroon
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Technology and big data are helping Cameroonians protect their forests
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Ethiopia’s inhospitable Danakil Depression gives us clues about life on Mars
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Increased off-grid and mini-grid investments could solve Africa’s electricity crisis, says Annan report
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Why did humans evolve big penises but small testicles?
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Slum health is not urban health: why we must distinguish between the two
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People power: how communities and cities can help save the environment
HEALTH
Global malaria report reveals Africa’s hits and misses: here’s what to do
icture of the work required to control malaria. Data from over 90 countries reveals a dramatic reduction in the rat...
How HIV became a treatable, chronic disease
It has been almost 35 years since the world was introduced to the term AIDS. In the 1980s, researchers and p...
WOMEN
Miss Jamaica’s Afro sends Twitter wild
Miss South Africa may have taken the crown in last night's Miss Universe pageant - but everyone on Twitter was talk...
FASHION
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Miss Jamaica’s Afro sends Twitter wild
Miss South Africa may have taken the crown in last night's Miss Universe pageant - but everyone on Twitter was talking a...
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Melania Trump’s $9,590 Sequined Skirt Suit Called ‘Inappropriate’ for Congress
On Tuesday evening, President Trump delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress — and first lady Melania...
FAMILY & PARENTING
Women in Africa who suffer from postnatal depression often go undiagnosed and untreated.
The role of group therapy in helping women cope with postnatal depression - Dixon Chibanda, University of Zimbabwe...
How hunger affects the mental health of pregnant mothers
Zulfa Abrahams, University of Cape Town and Simone Honikman, University of Cape Town The mental health of pregnant...
RELATIONSHIPS
The man with a PhD in THREESOMES: Straight men having a ménage à trois to strengthen their bromances
A British sociologist who has studied for a PhD in threesomes has revealed some strange trends in the sexual experi...
Belgian sex education website, ‘Alles over seks’ (‘Everything about sex’), for seven-year-olds is slammed for teaching advanced sex techniques
A Belgian sex education website featuring highly explicit drawings has come under fire after children as young as s...
KIDZTEENS
Immigrant children’s play can clash with mainstream cultures
Guofang Li, University of British Columbia Every child in the world is a master of play. Play is part of the basic...
Race, cyberbullying and intimate partner violence
Roderick S. Graham, Old Dominion University Over the past two decades, cyberbullying has become a major focus for p...
TEENSHIP PEBBLES
Immigrant children’s play can clash with mainstream cultures
Guofang Li, University of British Columbia Every child in the world is a master of play. Play is part of the basic...
Race, cyberbullying and intimate partner violence
Roderick S. Graham, Old Dominion University Over the past two decades, cyberbullying has become a major focus for p...
ENTERTAINMENT
BREAKING NEWS: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are engaged
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have today announced they are engaged. The couple, who revealed they were an item a...
Lupita Nyong’o accused Harvey Weinstein over sexual harassment
. "Let’s Cut to The Chase. I Have a Room Upstairs" . Oscar-award winning Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o has revealed...
SIZZLING BIZZ
UK: ‘I knew she was the one from the very first day’. Prince Harry to marry Megan Markle
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said today he is 'thrilled' to be marrying the Suits star and knew she was 'the one'...
BREAKING NEWS: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are engaged
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have today announced they are engaged. The couple, who revealed they were an item a...
CULTURE
Lingering cultural colonialism
African journalists, Elizabeth Ohene argues that African identities remain in thrall to the continent's colonial pa...
Identity, longing, and status drives Nigerian car culture
Toward the end of Chimamanda Adichie’s best-selling novel Americanah, Ifemelu, a Nigerian woman who has just return...
RELIGION
Islam and religious imperialism
Tola Adeniyi I was named Muhammadu Saheed on the 8th day of my birth. I was boarded in a Quran school at age...
Diwali: The festival of lights
Diwali, a national holiday in India, is also celebrated by a number of other countries around the world. Diwali, al...
TOURISM & TRAVEL
Sept destinations pour découvrir l’Afrique grandeur nature
Martinette Kruger, North-West University et Armand Viljoen, North-West University Si je vous dis « Afrique », vous...
Hrithik Roshan: Indian Actor Shares Pictures of Sons on Vacation in Africa
The images on Facebook and Instagram show the Bollywood actor's children learning archery and jumping on a mattres...
BLOGS
Create a vision for your family, determine your values and lead with them.
Every new day is an opportunity to learn something new, meet new people, talk to new people, form new alliances and...
Cameroon and most of Africa has the Blues
It is clear that Cameroon and most of Africa has the blues and we can learn something from the blues people. The bl...
OPINION
Zimbabwe: The Lancaster House Agreement
The Lancaster House Agreement depended on money from the UK to purchase white settler farms so that productive land...
After coup, will Zimbabwe see democracy or dictatorship?
Steven Feldstein, Boise State University For decades, Robert Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe in a ruthless, even reckless man...
CAREER
Wake up, start now, and make things happen.
The Orapa diamond mine of Botswana has an estimated diamond reserve of 151.4 million carats of Diamond. It has the...
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