Around Africa – Newstime Africa

Media freedom and democracy: Africans in four countries weigh up thorn...

May 10, 2023 no comments

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Michigan State University In July 2022, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary on gang activity in northwestern Nigeria. The programme, The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara, examined t...

A STRONG WOMAN WITH EXPOSURE, EXPERIENCE, AND EXPERTISE – NATASH...

April 12, 2023 no comments

The northern city of Port Loko will never be the same again as a daughter of the soil, Natasha Beckley, prepares to run for Mayor of this very important city in the northwest of Sierra Leone. Natasha...

U.S. State Department reports Significant human rights issues perpetra...

March 25, 2023 no comments

The United States Government of president Joe Biden has raised an alarming concern over what it described as Significant human rights issues including credible reports of unlawful or arbitrary killin...

Who is Joseph Kony? The altar boy who became Africa’s most wanted man...

March 6, 2023 no comments

Joseph Kony speaks to journalists in southern Sudan in November 2006. Stuart Price/AFP via Getty Images Dennis Jjuuko, UMass Boston and Tonny Raymond Kirabira, University of Portsmouth Eleven years a...

African Development Bank Group appoints Hassatou Diop N’Sele as ...

October 14, 2022 no comments

N’Sele, an accomplished professional with over 30 years of banking and finance experience, joined the African Development Bank in 1999 as Senior Treasury Officer Access Multimedia Content ABIDJ...

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 no comments

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...