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Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr set to be the running mate of the...

February 23, 2023 no comments

The political climate has suddenly changed with the election of a flagbearer by the opposition All Peoples Congress party in Sierra Leone Dr Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara was elected in a landslide to ...

Making sense of Wole Soyinka’s difficult and brilliant new novel

January 8, 2022 no comments

Wole Soyinka in 2017. THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images David Attwell, University of York A new novel by celebrated Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka – Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on ...

COVID-19: Rich countries should donate at least 1 billion vaccine dose...

September 5, 2021 no comments

NEW YORK – PRN Africa – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, and Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, expressed deep concern over the slow pace of vaccine red...

Ten Malawians off to the UK under Chevening scholarship

September 5, 2021 no comments

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...

UN chief following Mali crisis ‘with concern’ as Security ...

May 30, 2021 no comments

NEW YORK – PRN Africa — According to news reports, the detention on Monday of top civilian leaders by Colonel Assimi Goita – acting Vice President – who led the overthrow of former ...

Medical oxygen should not be a luxury – we’re trying to develop ...

May 4, 2021 no comments

David Fairen-Jimenez, University of Cambridge People might once have considered oxygen a human right. But the pandemic has revealed that access to oxygen – in a pure form, for medical use – is a luxu...

African presidents and global leaders support bold action on climate c...

April 8, 2021 no comments

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

MoU for African schools football competition signed in Congo DR

April 8, 2021 no comments

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: a new challenge for clean cooking progress in Kenya

March 29, 2021 no comments

Suzanne Bartington, University of Birmingham; Jessie Pinchoff, Population Council, and William Robert Avis, University of Birmingham Over 90% of the 238 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa’s ...

First Person: ‘No daughter of mine will be cut’

March 27, 2021 no comments

NEW YORK, 26 March 2021 – PRN Africa — ‘I have never felt so much pain in my entire life’ “Today, I curse the practice of female genital mutilation, but as a child I act...