Chad’s transitional president Mahamat Idriss Déby this week announced plans to hold a long-awaited national dialogue between his transitional government and the rebel groups currently active in the country. Déby, who leads the Transitional Military Council (CMT), invited rebel groups to take part in “frank and sincere” talks ahead of…
By Atsuko Toda and Martin Fregene, AfDB We are facing great uncertainty on the African continent. The global spread of COVID-19 and the rising number of coronavirus cases in Africa are fueling anxiety about negative economic growth, failing healthcare and collapsing food systems. We are already grappling with a locust…
By Wallace Mawire In 2020, three key Ghana universities and Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) will start working together to help Ghanaians train to become engineers, physicists, doctors and researchers. The nuclear education programs are supported by Russia’s ROSATOM, with the Russian Ministry of Higher Education and Science managing the…
By Ellington Ngandu China has been successful in making inroads into Africa with reciprocal warm gestures from many African countries. China has remained Africa’s largest trading partner from 2008 onward, while the United States is its second. Even with the widespread accusations that China is a neocolonial power in Africa –…
The long-lost “Tutu” painting by the late Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu has sold in London for more than USD$1.66 million, following the “Africa Now” auction held Wednesday evening. Bonhams in London, which handled the sale of Tutu, said the high bid was more than four times the high estimate of…
Crime is a major concern for almost all countries. For South Africa, the same issues with providing peace and security to its growing population continue to be an ongoing battle. Through the years, the government has implemented strict measures to comb out crimes and security threats. With a reduction of…
Rose Cabrera is the content editor for TopSecurityReview.
Africa has long been touted as the next global economic frontier, largely because of its abundant natural resources and unprecedented growth during the past few years. Many economic pundits say the economy of Africa will continue to grow faster than the economies of other continents with some countries identified among…
Danai Majaha is a journalist and photographer based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
No, don’t let your imagination run too wild. This is not about toilets waging wars on each other. This is about a major worldwide issue that has brought people together in many cities around the world, to fight, whether it is through legal action or explicit protest, against their governments….
Luisa is a postgraduate student from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.
Early in March 2015, Burundian civil society organizations started to foretell their discontent against Mr. Pierre Nkurunziza’s third term. Their concerns were aired on private and public media, along with social media. On April 25, when the CNDD-FDD incumbent party at that time announced publicly its candidate in 2015 presidential elections,…
Rivardo Niyonizigiye is an undergraduate from the University of Burundi.
The world celebrates World AIDS Day today amidst great strides in finding cures to Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and related complications. In Africa a popular herbal concoction developed by a Chinese researcher has been hailed as a proper and real solution to HIV/AIDS. The wonder drug forms part of global efforts to…
George Okore is an international journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.
It is not a kind of extreme pessimism or the contested government underestimation, but, the new security system that is not helping Burundi to get over the escalating violence. This is obviously proved by what Bujumbura city and some other provinces are living today after a series of measures undertaken…
Rivardo Niyonizigiye is an undergraduate from the University of Burundi.
Burundi has been undergoing a rough crisis since April this year. Protests started, the failed coup broke out and the subsequent killings followed. Now, the situations is continuing to worsen. People are dying day and night and nobody knows why. Corpses are found at roadsides or drowned in rivers shot…
Rivardo Niyonizigiye is an undergraduate from the University of Burundi.
Last Sunday’s presidential elections in the Ivory Coast preserved continuity, with important ramifications for those included in the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Incumbent President Alassane Ouattara’s overwhelming victory, which secured him another five-year term, holds the key for continued stability in a state still haunted by…
George Okore is an international journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Dear Burundi, I only spent four days with you and unfortunately you didn’t have enough time to share details on the whirlwind series of events you faced this year; yet yesterday morning when our eyes locked for a few minutes, I felt palpable sorrows through what only a distressed gaze…
Francine Irakoze was born in Burundi but grew up in many countries including Japan, Germany, Ethiopia, Belgium and the United States.
It is 10:30am in Luh village, North West region of Cameroon and a group of all green-dressed youths, members of the Wimbum students Union are bracing the drizzling rain to the sacred Luh forest for a re-forestation campaign. ‘We want to re-establish the natural greenery and environmental values of this…
Nyingchuo Hilary is the Executive President of Cameroon Journalists for Children's Health, a Media and communication specialist with over five years of experience in print and Multimedia reporting for mainstream media outlets and more recently the Daily Cameroon Journal where he is News Editor