Around Africa – Newstime Africa

Mosquitoes: there’s malaria, plus 5 other diseases they pass on to hum...

August 23, 2022 no comments

Tacio Philip Sansonovski/Shutterstock Jaishree Raman, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and Shüné Oliver, National Institute for Communicable Diseases Most people instantly associate mosqu...

UK work visa for elite graduates is exclusive and based on flawed assu...

June 24, 2022 no comments

The UK’s high potential individual visa demonstrates short-sightedness about the experience, insights and skills that graduates from the global South could bring to the UK. Shutterstock Orla Quinlan,...

Olu Jacobs: Nollywood’s elder statesman has always acted for his count...

January 27, 2022 no comments

Olu Jacobs and Joke Silva at the 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards. Ameyaw Debrah/Wikimedia Commons Françoise Ugochukwu, The Open University Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, the Nigerian film producer ...

State capture report chronicles extent of corruption in South Africa. ...

January 8, 2022 no comments

Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has delivered his first report on state capture to South African president Cyril Ramaphosa. Photo by Veli Nhlapo/Sowetan/Gallo Images via Getty Images Richard Calla...

Fear of being exposed – Sierra Leone President suspends the coun...

November 12, 2021 1 comment

The remarkable and outstanding Auditor-General in Sierra Leone – the fearless and very outspoken Lara Taylor Pearce, a highly respected and admired young lady, has been reportedly suspended fro...

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: an introduction to the man and h...

October 9, 2021 no comments

Lizzy Attree, Richmond American International University The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laur...

Why the push led by South Africa to revoke Israel’s AU observer status...

September 17, 2021 no comments

Hussein Solomon, University of the Free State The announcement in July that Israel had been formally granted observer status at the African Union drew a sharp reaction from some countries on the cont...

Remove Sierra Leone from the UK red list of countries with covid 19 va...

August 20, 2021 no comments

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...

AMEA Power launches 50MW Solar Power Plant in Togo – the country’s fir...

June 24, 2021 no comments

The solar plant was delivered in record time, reaching commercial operations within 18 months of signing the Power Purchase Agreement, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, J...

Tricked and uninformed: why so many young girls in Kenya are getting p...

May 30, 2021 no comments

Anthony Idowu Ajayi, African Population and Health Research Center The rate of early unintended pregnancy in Kenya is shockingly high. About one in five girls between the ages of 15 and 19 have begun...

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