Getting Nigerian Fathers Involved in Diaper Duty
Tolulope Adeleke wants more fathers to be involved in their babies’ lives right from conception. Having trained as a nurse and a midwife in the UK, Tolulope decided to move to Nigeria and set up antenatal classes for first-time dads in Lagos. SOURCE: BBC
Sudan’s Off the U.S Terror List, What Next?
For almost three decades, Sudan was constrained by economic sanctions that severely restricted its transactions with the wider world, adding to a long list of economic problems that included corruption, authoritarianism and conflict. In October, outgoing US President Donald Trump announced that he would remove Sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism list (SST) – […]
Heads Roll for Brutal Killing of Italian in Egypt
Almost five years after the mutilated corpse of Giulio Regeni was found on the outskirts of Cairo in February 2016, Italian prosecutors have charged four members of Egypt’s national security agency over his kidnapping and murder. For those working to uncover the truth about how Regeni died and why Egyptian security forces had entrapped the […]
Kenyan Smart Addressing Startup Solves Lack of Postal Addressing Infrastructure
OkHi has launched in Nigeria alongside strategic partner and new investor Interswitch Group, aiming to tackle a problem that costs Nigerian businesses an estimated US$2 billion a year. Co-founded in 2014 by Timbo Drayson, who while at Google led the launch of Google Maps across emerging markets and built Chromecast, the Nairobi-based OkHi has developed […]
No Place like Home for Refugees from the Central African Republic
Around 200 Central African refugees taking refuge in neighboring Cameroon make their way back to their country. In fear for their lives as violence erupted in the Central African Republic, they fled to Cameroon for safety. The UNHCR representative in Cameroon said those returning to the C.A.R are returning to safety. For some, the inability […]
Cultivating Food Security in East Africa
Researchers from the National Agricultural Research Organisation Uganda and the International Potato Center, have developed a new variety of potato which is resistant to late blight. Using new molecular techniques, they transferred late-blight resistance genes into the popular East African potato variety Victoria. The new variety, known as 3R Victoria, is almost identical to the […]
Can Africa Handle the Next Phase of Documenting its Citizens?
According to the World Bank, Africa is home to roughly half of the estimated one billion people in the world who are unable to prove their identities. To help remedy that, the World Bank has mobilised more than $1.2bn to support ID projects in 45 countries. Nearly every African country with a stable government now […]
Africa’s CDC Head Calls for Richer Nations to be Fair When it Comes to Buying Covid-19 Vaccines
Countries that have ordered more Covid-19 vaccines than they need should consider distributing excess doses to Africa, the head of the continent’s disease control body said on Thursday. As African countries begin to feel the effects of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and […]
No Room to Grow for Mali’s Children
A U.N. refugee agency report issued earlier this month finds thousands of children in Mali are being exploited and abused by criminal or armed groups, tribal chiefs and state authorities for profit and personal gain. The report presents a horrific picture of unscrupulous people feeding off the misery of the most vulnerable members of society […]
Great African Eats: Fonio Salad, Sénégal
Sénégal’s cuisine is a delectable mélange of French, Portuguese, North African and Wolof (people originally from the Sahara). Fish, lamb, chicken, beef (no pork, as population is mainly Muslim), rice, black-eyed peas, peanuts, lentils, couscous, eggplant and sweet potatoes are all integral to its cooking. Star Sénégalese-born chef and cookbook author (Yolele!) Pierre Thiam (Iron […]
