Population trends continue to put a number of African nations at the top of countries seeing the biggest increases by 2050, according to “ The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights” report released Monday by the United Nations.
Nigeria, Democratic Republic...
Malawi's Members of Parliament on Wednesday elected fellow legislator, Catherine Gotani Hara, as speaker of Parliament, making her the country's first female speaker for the August House.
Hon Catherine Gotani Hara, a lawmaker with the main opposition Malawi Congress Party,...
Ghana and Jamaica have both waived entry visa requirements for citizens wanting to travel to and from these two countries, with effect from 1st July, 2019.
This was disclosed at a press conference addressed by the President of the Republic,...
Nigerians made a record at Howard University, with 46 of them among the 96 graduating medical students. Out of the 27 awards, Nigerians also won 16.
Howard graduates had a lot to be proud of at their graduation ceremony. However,...
The most peaceful country in Africa is Mauritius, which is ranked 28th on the 2024 GPI. while South Sudan remains the least peaceful country in Africa and one of the least peaceful countries in the world, despite an improvement...
A Good Samaritan yesterday retrieved over US$100k and three pistols which he handed over to a security company whose cash-in-transit vehicle had been involved in a fatal accident.
Three Safeguard officials were transporting the money when the driver lost control...
South Sudan is the world's 3rd least peaceful country in the world and least peaceful country in the Africa, according to the 2019 edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI).
The report, released on Wednesday, "measures the state of peace...
Forbes has released its list of the world’s highest-paid athletes for 2019 with the cut-off for the top 100 at $25 million as compared to $17.3 million some 5 years ago showing how lucrative the industry has been over...
Forty-four years ago, on June 12, 1964, former South African president Nelson Mandela and seven of his comrades were jailed for life after being found guilty of sabotaging and planning a violent revolution against the apartheid government in the...
Botswana's High Court has overturned a law criminalizing consensual same-sex relations. Under section 164 of Botswana's Penal Code, same sex relations was an offense that carried a maximum sentence of seven years' imprisonment.
The case was brought to court in...
Anele is a web developer and a Pan-Africanist who believes bad leadership is the only thing keeping Africa from taking its rightful place in the modern world.
