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Mahamudu Bawumia is vice-president of Ghana and head of the government’s Economic Management Team.

Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice-President of Ghana: ‘Africa will be transformed by the potential of AI and data – if we can get investment’

June 1, 2023

As we see the artificial intelligence furore sweep across continents, one thing is clear: Africans have a goldmine at our...

Dangote Refinery brings More Pain Than Joy to Residents of Lekki Free Zone

May 31, 2023

President Muhammadu Buhari penultimate commissioned the Dangote Refinery, a project that was flagged off as the first of its kind...

President Biden and other leaders pose for a photo during the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington on Thursday. Andrew Harnik/Associated Press

Africa is getting renewed attention from Washington — and some African states are courting African Americans

May 27, 2023

Recent allegations by the U.S. ambassador to South Africa that the African nation gave ammunition and weapons to Russia in...

Celine Dion’s uphill battles

May 27, 2023

When Celine Dion announced that she was canceling her upcoming tour amid her battle with an incurable neurological disorder, she...

Community water contaminated with crude oil that six years after the spill, the village was deemed unlivable. Photograph: Jacob Silberberg/Getty Images

Nigeria: New government must ensure Shell’s sale of its Niger Delta oil business does not worsen human rights abuses

May 27, 2023

Amnesty International: Nigeria’s new government, which will be sworn in on 29 May, must ensure that Shell’s planned sale of...

Sudan: The un-dead thorny issue with two armies in one country

May 25, 2023

Arab News/DUBAI: The fighting in Sudan, now in its second month, shows no sign of ending, and is contributing to...

China-Africa partnership, a great significance in bringing the world to a better frontier

May 22, 2023

China-Africa ties are at an all-time high. China's approach to modernization offers a valuable model for African countries seeking economic...

Shell contractors and regulators responding to a 2015 spill at Shell’s Seibou field in Southern Ijaw, Bayelsa state. There are over 200 spills in the Niger Delta every year. Image by Anonymous.

Shocking oil pollution report offers little hope for weary Niger Delta

May 22, 2023

Earlier this month, a fisherman reported oil leaking from an old wellhead at Okpoama, in the southern part of Nigeria’s...

A boy with a fishing net stands on the oil-soaked bank of a creek area in the Niger Delta: children are particularly susceptible to environmental pollutants, absorbing it into their tissue more rapidly than adults. Image by Milieudefensie via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Legacy of carnage as Shell, Eni quit Niger Delta

May 22, 2023

Oil and gas companies, led by Shell, Eni, Chevron, Total and ExxonMobil, spilled 110,000 barrels of oil into Nigeria’s Bayelsa...

Members of the Libyan armed unit, 444 Brigade, backing the Government of National Unity (GNU) and its Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, set up a checkpoint as smoke rises in the background in Ain Zara area in Tripoli, Libya, July 22, 2022. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed

How Sudan crisis casts long shadow over Libya

May 14, 2023

As crisis grips a Sudan strangled by years of political instability, economic hardship and widespread unrest, neighboring countries such as...

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Ghana: Chocolate makers steadily record profits while cocoa producers barely earn a living

May 14, 2023

While world's biggest chocolate companies see their profits soar, they fail to keep their promises to improve the wages of...

A shopper in Cairo buying food to celebrate the end of the Ramadan fast reacts as the assistant weighing the fish tells her that the price has doubled. The shop’s manager said: ‘Doubling the prices means halving the sales.’ Photograph: Hamada Elrasam

Inflation, IMF austerity and grandiose military plans edge more Egyptians into poverty

May 13, 2023

Increasing numbers of Egyptians are desperately hunting for second jobs, cutting back on eating meat and scrambling to find new...

INTERVIEW: Future state of Yemen must ultimately be decided by Yemenis — U.S. Special Envoy Tim Lenderking

May 11, 2023

At the United States Department of State’s Dubai Regional Media Hub, Timothy A. Lenderking, U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen discuses...

Seizure at Al Haditha port, Jordan. Photo: ZATCA

A decade of appalling civil war leaves Syria fragmented and in ruins with drug fenethylline, commercially known as Captagon

May 11, 2023

DUBAI/AMMAN: Just days after Ayman Safadi, Jordan’s foreign minister, warned in an interview with CNN that his country is “not...

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