BY MODUPE ABIOLA Abuja, Nigeria—The pressure is coming from multiple sources: human rights organizations including Amnesty International; an African umbrella-civil society group; U.S. lawmakers including New Jersey senator Cory Boker, and others demanding that...
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 Ouattara today doubled down...
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 best of times for...
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 States and Sudan will...
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, strongly condemned by the...
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 office, stated: “Be assured,...
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 move to Africa for...
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 deliver media content directly...
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 iPhones. Ahead of the...
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 number contested by the...
