Focus on BOAD’s Chairman Christian Adovelande
BY ALAN GREEN Christian N. Adovelandé, chairman and CEO of the West African Development Bank, has made an outstanding impact on the financial institution, proving to be one of the … Read More
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What China’s President Xi’s extended tenure means for Africa
BY COBUS VAN STADEN China’s decision to suspend presidential term limits is still reverberating around the world. The announcement, made after a vote by China’s parliament in March, prompted some commentators to … Read More
Presidents Ouattara and Soro: the hatchet appears buried
BY JIBRIL TURE A high-profile meeting between Côte d’Ivoire’s president Alassane Dramane Ouattara and the country’s speaker of the parliament, Guillaume Soro, at the presidential palace in Abidjan on 3 … Read More
The Market for Abidjan Performing Arts holds new promises
BY SERGES N’GUESSANT PHOTOGRAPHY BY KOUASSI TOTO KOFFI The Market for Abidjan Performing Arts, MASA, held March 10-17 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, showcased the breathtaking talents of hundreds of artists … Read More
NAACP sues over Trump’s plans to end protection for Haitian immigrants
BY SUE B. SIMON The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP (the largest civil rights organization in the United States) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the … Read More
U.S. Leadership approval in the world slips to unprecedented low
BY WILLIAM J. FIGHTER Worldwide approval of the United States role has slipped to a new low, a Gallup poll published today says. U.S. approval rate is now below that … Read More
Pushing Donald Trump back in his hole
BY SOUMANOU SALIFOU Ever since our democracy tripped on 9 November 2016 and a racist, insecure, vulgar and ignorant bigot, after bleeding from self-inflicted wounds of proven women’s groping and … Read More
Africa in world’s economic competitiveness
BY ALAN GREEN The World Economic Forum just released the 2017-2018 edition of the biennial Global Competitiveness Report which compares the world’s economies against each other on the basis of … Read More
Hillary Clinton looks back at her humiliating loss to Trump in a memoir
BY PHILOMENA JONES Arguably, macho America was not ready for a woman-president, but, in the public’s eyes, at the end of the day, Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to … Read More
Young African leaders meet in Washington to build leadership skills
BY LOU SIFA A group of one thousand young leaders from 48 Sub-Saharan African countries met in Washington, D.C. Last week in the context of the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship … Read More