October 4, 2021 SPEAKING in New York at the UN General Assembly at the end of September, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo made a strong case for respect for democracy, constitutional rule and human rights by members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). His call came in the midst of another challenge to […]
September 28, 2021 THE trial of those responsible for the killing of more than 150 people and the rape of dozens of women in a stadium in Guinea on September 28, 2009, should begin as soon as possible, six human rights groups have said. In the wake of the coup that overthrew President Alpha Conde […]
September 20, 2021 A FORMER UN Under Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and Mohamed Chande Othman, one-time Chief Justice of Tanzania, are among 17 experts appointed by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, to serve as Special Advisers. The ICC said that the […]
August 30, 2021 THE GAMBIAN President, Adama Barrow, has signed into law the Access To Information (ATI) Bill, which activists believe will not only facilitate the work of journalists but will also empower civil society to lay their hands on government-held information to enhance accountability and transparency. The country’s National Assembly passed the Bill on […]
August 1, 2021 THE Global Education Summit has raised $4 billion in pledges from donors for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), which will assist some 175 million children to learn and help get 88 million more girls and boys in school by 2025 in 87 low- and middle-income countries, of which 35 are in […]
July 26, 2020 AS delegates prepare to attend the Global Education Summit in London on July 28 and 29, African governments have been given a stark warning: make their spending on education more efficient to better transform young lives. Currently, many of these governments spend around five per cent of GDP on education, the second […]
By Mounira Chaieb, Editor, Presenter and Mentor at the ALC July 13, 2021 French Algerian visual artist Rachid Koraichi has created a unique cemetery to provide a dignified final resting place for hundreds of unburied migrants and refugees of all ages, nationalities and religions. The migrants’ bodies have been washed ashore along the coastline of Zarzis in the South […]
Tunde Zack-Williams, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Central Lancashire in the UK, has been, for the last 50 years, at the forefront of reshaping African Studies on the continent and in the West. He shares his experiences with Talking Africa. Image: ASAUK (African Studies Association UK)
Mounira Chaieb is a former BBC Arabic Service Journalist, Freelance writer and mentor at The African Leadership Centre.
Dr Albert Mbiatem from Cameroon, who recently co-authored a book, Whose Peace Are We Building? Leadership for Peace in Africa, with Youssef Mahmoud, tells Desmond Davies how the project evolved. He also spoke about the current state of leadership in Africa.