The 8 million square kilometers and 17 countries covered by this atlas encompass a wide range of landscapes from alluvial valleys in Senegal and Ghana, sandy plains and low plateaus across the Sahel, and rolling hills of Togo to rugged mountains with summits reaching over 1,500 m in Guinea and 1,800 m in Niger. Covering […]
Quartz, By Amindeh Blaise Atabong In Africa, crop pests and disease have been hampering agriculture productivity for decades. Africa farmers lose an estimated 49% of expected total crop yield per annum—the highest in the world – according to the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International. That’s likely to get worse as the impact of climate change worsens […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has agreed to return, “without delay”, 26 African artworks claimed by Benin, according to the president’s office. The decision on Friday came shortly after Macron received a report detailing how former colonizers can return looted artworks to Africa. Governments from Ethiopia to Senegal eagerly awaited the report, commissioned by Macron and compiled by French art historian, Benedicte Savoy, and […]
Nigeria’s state revenue for February of this year edged up by 19 billion naira ($53 million), it was announced Thursday, though chaotic fiscal management has meant that its budget announcement has been pushed back yet again. Nigeria earned 557.9 billion naira ($1.8 billion) in gross revenues last month, up from 538.9 billion naira in January. […]
Cameroon’s history points to an outcome that might end its conflict: a return to a federal system in which each linguistic region enjoys a level of autonomy. In 1884, Germany under Otto von Bismarck established the colony of “Kamerun”. Germany’s colonial situation in Africa changed drastically at the end of the First World War. As […]
In line with its Jobs for Youth in Africa (JfYA) Strategy to boost job creation and entrepreneurship across Africa, the African Development Bank held a breakfast session at the ongoing 24th Nigerian Economic Summit themed, “Education to Employment – Mind the Gap.” The session was a joint event between the Bank, National Universities Commission (NUC), Federal Ministry of […]
Parliament, by a majority decision, has ratified the controversial defence corporation between the Republic of Ghana and the United States of America (USA). The ratification which went deep into the night on Friday, moments before the House adjourned sine dine to bring the first meeting of the second session to an end, was characterised by […]
South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company MTN Group shook off its woes of the past few months by recording an increase in its subscriber base in MTN Ghana. The group said that its subscribers grew from 17.1million to 19.4million for the nine months to end September and data subscribers increased to 14.3million, up from 5.8million […]
Four years after Nigeria survived an outbreak of Ebola, Director General of the West African Health Organisation, WAHO, Prof. Stanley Okolo, has said the sub-region lost $7 billion in terms of loss aid, income and productivity during the 2014 Ebola epidemic. Okolo, in his presentation during the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement, REDISSE, 3rd Steering […]
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