November 23, 2020 THE UK government has honoured 100 Zimbabwean deminers who have cleared the Falkland Islands of around 25,000 lethal mines that were laid by Argentinian forces that occupied the self-governing British Overseas Territory in 1982 for 74 days. Argentina invaded what it called Islas Malvinas to assert its territorial claims but Britain sent […]
For this Talking Africa programme Desmond Davies speaks to Professor Cheryl Hendricks, Executive Director of the Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council. The interview discusses South Africa’s relations with the Continent.
For this Talking Africa programme Desmond Davies speaks to Mr. Kojo Yankah, the Former Government Minister in Ghana and Founder of Pan African World Heritage Museum which was Launched virtually in September 21 and will be based in Ghana. The interview discusses Black culture and the need for Africans to tell their own story
$5bn fund to tackle global education crisis worsened by Covid-19 October 14, 2020 THE Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has announced a $5 billion funding target for the next five years to tackle the “global education crisis” that has been made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the peak of school closures earlier in the […]
Thomas Jaye: an illustrious Pan-Africanist and security specialist September 2, 2020 One of the leading lights in Liberia’s security sector reform programme, Dr Thomas Jaye, died recently, aged 63. Adedeji Ebo pays tribute to a man who provided a mine of information about security issues in Africa DEATH is like a cap that we all […]
ALC Fellows making waves globally. August 20, 2020 IN 10 years of its existence, the African Leadership Centre, a joint initiative of King’s College London and the University of Nairobi, has trained and mentored 124 Fellows, 60 per cent of whom are women, from 22 African countries on Master’s and non-degree awarding programmes. “ALC alumni […]
Johnson Sirleaf leads evaluation of global COVID-19 response July 13, 2020 EX-President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is to co-chair, with the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, an independent panel to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 73rd World Health Assembly took the decision in May to establish the […]
WHO urges caution as African countries plan to re-start air travel July 7, 2020 AS African countries prepare to resume commercial flights later this month, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged governments to take “effective measures” to reduce the risk of a surge in COVID-19 infections as air borders are re-opened. In the early […]
The state of human rights in Africa amid COVID-19 June 22, 2020 Susan Muriungi, the Nairobi-based Africa Regional Director for Protection International, speaks to the ALC Pan-African Radio ALC Pan-African Radio: Human rights questions have been raised about how governments around the world have been using emergency powers to tackle COVID-19. Are such rights in […]
Darfur fugitive finally appears in court June 17, 2020 AFTER 13 years as a fugitive, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd–Al-Rahman, commonly known as Ali Kushayb, has finally made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Darfur in Sudan. […]