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11.10.2022 Interview: Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

African nations have "unlimited" potential to become "breadbaskets" that not only feed the continent but also a hungry world, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, said during a policy address on food security in Accra…

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11.10.2022

Nicolas Colombant/IRIN) Despite an international outcry in 2000 over child exploitation on West African cocoa farms, and ambitious efforts by governments since then to regulate the industry, very little has changed for an estimated 284,000 child…

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11.10.2022 Alexes Adele

Twelve-year-old Arouna* stands shirtless in a cocoa field in southwestern Côte d’Ivoire holding a hoe, his ribs clearly visible under his dark skin. ABIDJAN … “I have to get up very early each day to be the first in the field with my younger…

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11.10.2022 Musa Kana

Nigerian newborns weigh less if their mothers use biomass fuel - a major health risk …   … Musa Kana does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has…

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11.10.2022 Foreign Affairs Ministry

Govt to evacuate 431 stranded Ghanaians in UAE- Foreign Affairs Ministry …   … The Government of Ghana is collaborating with the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to evacuate 431 stranded Ghanaians misled by unscrupulous agents who…

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11.10.2022 Interview by Shimbo Pastory

INTERVIEW: How to liberate the African child from generational flaws … Thursday, June 16, 2022 … Dr. Sacha Hepburn is a historian of modern Africa at Birkbeck, University of London.  Summary … • Today being the International Day of the African…