Ten Malawians off to the UK under Chevening scholarship
LILONGWE, Malawi – PRN Africa – Acting High Commissioner and Malawi’s Deputy Education Minister bade farewell to the 2021/22 Chevening cohort and welcomed the 2019/20 group. The Act...
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The EU joins hands with civil society and communities to clean up Kawe...
BRUSSELS – PRN Africa – The European Union in partnership with the Civil Society Forum on Climate Change (FORUMCC) organised a Beach clean-up on 26th June 2021 at Kawe Beach, Kinondoni Mu...
UK’s Minister for Africa announces 250,000 pounds to support Gha...
LONDON – PRN Africa – Two weeks after UK-donated COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Ghana, the UK Minister for Africa James Duddridge has arrived in Accra for a two-day visit to the country Gha...
The recycled Junta politics operating in Sierra Leone
At the helm of government in Sierra Leone is a notorious fraudster, who was elected into office as president only because the people of the country wanted a difference and were tired of being ruled b...
President Alpha Conde is overthrown as Military coup takes hold in Gui...
Control of state television airwaves in Guinea has been seized by an army colonel on Sunday. An announcement came over state media that the government of President Alpha Conde has been dissolved. Thi...
Big Brother Naija: Why Nigerians are obsessed with the reality TV show...
Alex Eloho Umuerri, Benson Idahosa University Within the last five years, the Big Brother Naija reality TV show has become Nigeria’s most watched offering on television. Featuring a diverse mix of ho...
Remove Sierra Leone from the UK red list of countries with covid 19 va...
We as Sierra Leoneans living in the UK feel it is quite unfair that our country with lower cases than most West African countries, is now listed on the red list. We feel it is also not fair that...
Why Nollywood is obsessed with remakes of classic movies
Ezinne Ezepue, University of Nigeria Since the record-breaking success of Ramsey Nouah’s 2019 sequel to the Nollywood classic, Living in Bondage, the Nigerian film industry has been overtaken by a fr...
A fully furnished house is up for rent or lease in Freetown, Sierra Le...
We are introducing a beautifully and aesthetically designed house on the outskirts of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. The fantastically constructed house boasts an array of design features and...
Zambians go to elections amid turmoil. What’s at stake
Johan Brosché, Uppsala University and Kristine Höglund, Uppsala University As Zambia prepares to go to the general polls on 12 August, it does so in a context of political decay. It’s also in the mid...