African presidents and global leaders support bold action on climate c...
Africa now faces the dual onslaught of climate change – currently estimated at between $7 billion and $15 billion each year – and Covid-19, which has claimed 114,000 lives
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Africanist Press Reports – Sierra Leone President Julius Maada B...
Sierra Leone’s President, Julius Maada Bio, and his wife, Fatima Jabbe Bio, collectively withdrew a total of over Le30 billion Leones (more than US$3 million) from the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL), the...
MoU for African schools football competition signed in Congo DR
The initiative will allow FECOFA, FIFA and the government of the DRC to promote health and support social cohesion by integrating football training into the school curriculum KINSHASA, Democratic Rep...
COVID-19: AstraZeneca vaccine benefits still ‘largely positive&#...
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — Dr Rogério Pinto de Sá Gaspar, Director for Regulation and Prequalification, was responding to a journalist’s question regarding links between the vaccine an...
‘Staggering’ scale of acute hunger in the Democratic Repub...
NEW YORK – PRN Africa — According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), 27.3 million people face “acute” food insecurity – some se...
Canon commits to the Next Generation of Creative Storytellers with its...
Unrivalled access to inspirational lectures, talks and speakers, all taking place digitally for the second year in a row DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — World-class advice, portfolio reviews and ...
Botched coup in Niger points to deep fissures in the country
Olayinka Ajala, Leeds Beckett University Events in Niger took a dramatic turn days before the country was about to make history by conducting the first transfer of power from one democratically elect...
Tracking coronavirus in West Africa and beyond
BRUSSELS, 01 April 2021 – PRN Africa — Since the coronavirus outbreak, Elsi’s team have been using EU-backed SORMAS technology to track the spread of coronavirus in Nigeria. SORMAS ...
Has ECOWAS made West Africa a safer place? Yes, but its track record i...
Benjamin Maiangwa, Durham University In an article published in 1994 titled The Coming Anarchy, the American journalist Robert Kaplan predicted an impending Armageddon for West Africa due to what he ...
Why we did it: the Kenyan women and girls who joined Al-Shabaab
Fathima Azmiya Badurdeen, Technical University of Mombasa The direct involvement of women and girls in terrorism has attracted increased interest as the nature of recruitment tactics has evolved. In ...