As part of its External Investment Plan, the European Union has approved €800 million for investment earmarked for Africa and the regional “neighborhood” countries, a number of which also are North African states. The funding will support programs including a new lending alternative for refugees or the internally displaced, who…
The much-awaited Global Compact for Migration is one step closer to adoption, as the United Nations finalized the text on Friday. Plans for that adoption are set for December at a conference in Morocco. The Global Compact initiative was approved in 2016 during the Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and…
Former United States President Barack Obama announced Friday on Facebook that he’s set to travel to Africa for the first time since leaving office more than a year ago. Obama will deliver the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on Tuesday at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, in what is part of the…
Cambridge Analytica, the disgraced intelligence and data-driven communications firm at the center of the Facebook…
Following a Dutch investigation into low-quality and highly toxic fuel blends shipped from Europe to…
The African Development Bank was ranked fourth in the world in the latest Aid Transparency…
Climate change is “inextricably linked to some of the most pressing security challenges of our…
United States President Donald Trump described the African continent as “vicious and violent” on Thursday,…
In Sierra Leone, former vice president Victor Foh and former mines minister Mansaray Minkailu were arrested Thursday as part of new President Julius Maada Bio’s aggressive crackdown on corruption. Despite claims that the arrests are politically motivated, Maada Bio – the Sierra Leone People’s Party candidate elected in a disputed…
Officials at the Sibuya Game Reserve in South Africa say at least three people suspected to be rhino poachers entered their property, and an unknown number are dead after they were mauled and eaten by a pride of lions earlier this week. “One of our anti-poaching dogs alerted her handler…
President Yoweri Museveni, known for the occasionally wordy post on whatever topic is at hand, has taken to Facebook to defend a controversial tax, imposed on social media and money mobile users, that went into effect at the beginning of July. Museveni pointedly said he wanted to use social media…
Nine people will face charges in Kenya following the tragic failure of a private dam that killed nearly four dozen people in May, according to the ODPP, the country’s national prosecuting authority. The Patel Dam was named for the private farm it served but is also known as the Milmet…