David Beckham Speaks Yoruba And Swahili To Support Cause To End Malaria

British soccer star David Beckham launched a global video appeal on Tuesday to end malaria in which he appeared to be speaking nine language...

Ghana: Brief Country Profile and Facts

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in Western Africa. It is boarded by Ivory Coast to its west, Burkina Faso to i...

U.S. Airstrike Kills 35 Al-Shabaab Suspects in Somalia

"Precision strikes" killed 35 al-Shabab fighters as the group was attempting to "mass their forces" in Somalia, the US ...

How Africa Loses Billions Due To High Cost Of Remittances

Global remittance is big business. Remittances are sums sent home by migrant workers . Numerous studies have proved that remittances directl...

Why The NBA is Launching An African Basketball League

Basketball is a thriving sport in Africa, but not as popular as football though . However all of that could change soon. The American Nation...

Organisation for African First Ladies Changes Name to OAFLAD

The umbrella body of African First Ladies have announced a change in their name and mission during their 22nd General Assembly held in the E...

US Policy Towards Africa Will Change Significantly in 2019 But Africans Don’t Know This

When many Africans think about US-Africa relations, they still see it through the lenses of imperialism and the Cold War. However, since Cli...

Blackstone Group, the World's Largest Alternative Investment Firm is Pulling out of Africa

Investment firm  Blackstone Group LP  is scaling back its bet on Africa, almost five years after it made a commitment to spend billions of d...

France's Renault Considers Establishing Assembly Plant in Ghana

Renault, the French multinational automobile manufacturer is to establish an assembly plant in Ghana . Renault's Vice President and Chai...

Germany's Volkswagen Signs Transformative Partnership Agreement With Ethiopia

Volkswagen brand continues its engagement in emerging countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the presence of Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President...

What is the CFA Franc and Why Do African Countries Still Use It?

The CFA Franc is one of the most hotly debated currency ever used by any group of countries. Many don’t like it and they argue that the cur...

South Africa Rejects Zimbabwe $1.2bn Loan Request

South Africa turned down a request from its southern African neighbour Zimbabwe for a $1.2 billion loan in December, a spokesman for the fi...

How OPEC Is Helping U.S. Oil Reach a Tipping Point

The U.S. Energy Information Administration has published its first detailed monthly oil forecast for 2020 and it shows something that should...

South Africans are the Biggest Online Porn Consumers in the Whole of Africa

South Africans are the biggest consumers of online porn in Africa. According to statistics from PornHub, the world's largest porn webs...

South African women protest against gender based violence

Thousands of women in South Africa took to the streets of Pretoria on Wednesday to protest against gender based violence. The protest dubbe...

South Africa: Julius Malema under fire for alleged racist comments

done.The South Africa Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) say they are set to investigate leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters EFF Julius Mal...

Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa travels to China for state visit

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is embarking on a state visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two ...

Israel cancels plan to deport migrants to Africa

Israel has cancelled plans to deport migrants to Africa after striking a deal with the United Nations refugee agency. In the new agreement,...

Six African referees to chosen for World Cup duty

World football governing body FIFA has selected six African referees to officiate at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. They are: Mehdi Abid Cha...

World Bank agrees US$ 600m loan, grant to Ethiopia

The World Bank on Tuesday agreed a US$600 million loan and grant to Ethiopia to finance roads and other infrastructure projects in urban ar...