Message by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2017 Across the world, too many women and girls spend too many hours on household responsibilities – typically more than double…
Donald Trump’s bleak inauguration speech has attracted attention for, among other things, employing the phrase “America first”. The term was popularized by the famed aviator Charles Lindbergh and is associated with anti-Semitic and Nazi sympathizers…
“There are some African countries I’d write off for 15 years, there are 9-10 countries that won’t go anywhere but the rest are going to advance.” – Charles Robertson, global chief economist at Renaissance Capital…
Monrovia — The World Health Organization has expressed fear over the rapid increase of diabetes in Africa, emphasizing the need for a proper control mechanism to be put in place in curtailing the prevalence of…
When the West African country, The Gambia went for Elections about a fortnight ago, I did not pay much attention. I knew it was a foregone conclusion. Yahya Jammeh the maverick dictator of 22 years…
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — The U.N. refugee agency reports thousands of refugees from the Horn of Africa, desperate to escape difficult conditions at home, continue to make the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to…
Donald Trump is the next president of the United States of America. As crazy as it might seem, this is no time for schadenfreude: his election is bad news – very bad news – for…
Nigeria is currently in recession. That is the news headlines everywhere these days and President Buhari’s administration is working hard to curb corruption and waste of much needed resources, while at the same time, recover…
“I was terrified and confused on my wedding day, I didn’t even know what I was doing.” – Beatrice Chikwekwe “I faced a lot of problems in marriage. I was young and did not know…
Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church prohibited from entering country after 60,000 people signed online petition objecting to his ‘hate speech’ “Pastor” Steven Anderson, reacted to the terrorist attack at a gay nightclub…