US Funds New Global Initiative Launched To Protect Grassroots Environmental Defenders
As They Face Serious Risk Form Threats, Security Risks And Weak Governance PHOTO: Grassroots Environmental Defenders Green Advocates International ...
Category : African News
Mali: Army, Wagner Group Atrocities Against Civilians
Investigations Needed Into Indiscriminate Drone Strikes, Summary Killings Malian armed forces and Wagner Group foreign fighters unlawfully killed and summarily executed several dozen civilians in...
Africans Demand Action From Government, As Challenges With Water Supply And Sanitation Persist
A majority of Africans say their government is doing a poor job of providing water and sanitation services, the latest Afrobarometer Pan-Africa Profile shows. The...
Merck Foundation CEO And Africa’s First Ladies Mark International Women’s Day 2024
Through Their More Than A Mother Campaign From Women to Women: Merck Foundation marks International Women Day 2024 through their “More Than a Mother” program...
OP-ED – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2024–“NVEST IN WOMEN: ENDING THE PATRIARCHY REQUIRES MONEY ON THE TABLE”
PHOTO: UN Secretary General, António Guterres, The fight for women’s rights over the past fifty years is a story of progress. Women and girls have...
Mali: Security Force Whistleblower Arrested
Colonel Feared ‘Forcibly Disappeared’ for Speaking out against Military Abuse (Nairobi, March 4, 2024) – Mali’s military authorities have arrested a colonel from the gendarmerie who...
AfDB And Liberian Gov’t Sign US$40M Agreement For MRU Road Development & Transport Facilitation
PHOTO: (L-R) Benedict Kanu, AFB Country Director; Boima Kamara, Finance Minister at the signing ceremony The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Liberian government have...
New Voice In Nigeria’s Feminist Discourse
By Bayo Adegbite Nigerian writer and journalist Oyelola Adeola Ogunrinde was recently signed on by Fairlight Books UK. Her published short story ‘My Mother’s Voice’...
Ghana’s Parliament Passes Anti-LGBTQ Law
Under the new law, the promotion of rights of those who are lesbian, gay or other non-conventional sexual or gender identities in Ghana is punishable...
Africans Demand Right To Public Information But See Access As Restricted
New Afrobarometer Report Shows A majority of Africans reject the idea that information held by public authorities is only for use by government officials and...