BY JIBRIL TURE (Reporting by Paul Yao) On the occasion of the high-profile celebration of the 26th anniversary of the passing of Cote d’Ivoire’s founding father Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President Alassane … Read More
BY ALAN GREEN South African Airways has entered a bankruptcy protection program that the state-owned African carrier—the largest on the continent—hopes will help avert total collapse. These are not the … Read More
BY USMAN MAMA Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who is on his first visit to Washington this week, has something tangible to show for it: the announcement that the United … Read More
BY FRED LEWIS (Lusaka, Zambia) A 15-year jail sentence for two Zambian homosexuals, Japhet Chataba and Steven Samba, was confirmed last week after the court quashed their appeal. The development, … Read More
BY JIBRIL TURE There was no ambiguity to it. In an address Saturday, President Alassane Ouattara, who is only ten months away from the end of his second term in … Read More
BY ALAN GREEN After a three-week, four-nation tour of Africa during which he met with high-tech operators and entrepreneurs, Twitter chief Jack Dorsey was so impressed he announced plans to … Read More
BY GEORGE OGALA The government of Benin last year cancelled a decree that imposed a tax on users of platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp. Known as “over-the-top” platforms, they can … Read More
BY JACO J. HAMMAN Two years ago, Apple launched its iPhone 8 and iPhone X, which came with sleek, new features. Apple also hopes to start a new community around the … Read More
BY ALAN GREEN During the presentation last week of the 2020 budget, Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, stated Chinese aid to his country through September to be US$3.6 million, a … Read More
Drawing from her own experience as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, Melissa Fischer in this book weaves a rich tale set in 1992 in Obuasi, a mining boomtown. … Read More
