Africa

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will hand back 20 stolen Benin bronzes when she travels to Nigeria next week, her spokesman said Friday, as part of Berlin’s efforts to reckon with its colonial past. Germany […]

Mariamu* did not intend to give birth at school. She had discovered she was pregnant, aged 16, during Sierra Leone’s nine-month Ebola lockdown in 2014. Her boyfriend disappeared and she was consumed by shame and […]

PRETORIA — A special sitting of South Africa’s parliament is due to vote on whether to begin impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa. The president is accused of covering up the theft of a large sum […]

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has cancelled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday and directed that the budget instead be used to build dormitories for children with special needs. The 61st Independence Day event was […]

The Nigerian government has approved a new National Language Policy that will mandate the use of local languages as a language of instruction for primary school pupils and remove English. The policy was announced by Nigeria’s […]

The release of child soldiers, rehabilitation, and care for victims of sexual violence were some of the resolutions made at the third Inter-Congolese Dialogue on the restoration of peace in the eastern part of the […]

More than half of Tigrayan forces have withdrawn from the frontlines, the forces’ top commander said, a month after a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the two-year conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. “We have […]

By Dr AbdelGadir Warsama, Legal Counsel At the global level, bonds play an important role in the financial, corporate and banking business. Very often, many governments and international financial institutions issue bonds whenever there is […]