After Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor and his wife received two doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in Nigeria, they assumed they would be free to travel this summer to a European destination of their choice. They were wrong.The couple — and...
Jean KemitareAs feminists, academia, human rights activists, and their allies head to the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) taking place in Paris from 30th June to 2nd July 2021, questions on the state of gender equality in Africa continues to...
The U.N. human rights chief, in a landmark report launched after the killing of George Floyd in the United States, is urging countries worldwide to do more to help end discrimination, violence and systemic racism against people of African...
A rallying call for all inclusive budgeting was reignited in Abuja, the Nigerian capital on Friday, 23rd April, 2021, when the Center for Gender Economics - Africa(CGE-Africa) launched the Gender Responsive Budgeting(GRB) Flagship Project.The CGE - a non-governmental organisation...
Eritrea told the United Nations Security Council on Friday that it has agreed to start withdrawing its troops from Ethiopia's Tigray region, acknowledging publicly for the first time the country's involvement in the conflict.The admission in a letter to...
The World Health Organization’s global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX delivered its first COVID-19 shots to Ghana on Wednesday, as the race is on to get doses to every nation to tame the virus.A flight carrying 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford...
By Annie Risemberg VOAMali this year struggled with an Islamist insurgency, a worldwide pandemic, and an August military coup, all of which left most cultural events in the West African nation in shambles.But Mali’s annual International Festival of Slam...
By: Onyinyechi Okechukwu and Tariro TandiThe year 2020 will not go in a hurry; yes, it will be off the human calendar for good but not without leaving scars of unpleasant memories of pain, poverty and losses. It will...
Associated PressA Congolese activist, Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza and four others went on trial in France on Wednesday on theft charges for trying to remove a 19th-century African funeral pole from a Paris museum, as part of a protest campaign...
AljazeeraRaising start-up capital is one of the biggest challenges for women entrepreneurs in Kenya’s key manufacturing sector, with banks requiring collateral that most of them do not have, a new study has found.Most women work or run businesses in...
