In Abidjan, the economic hub of Côte d’Ivoire, women politicians from across West Africa gathered for a forum on women in politics, organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF). The forum, now in its second year, was designed as a two-way exchange. It offered politically active West African women a space to deepen…
Author: Chukwu Godlove
Twin brothers from Ghana and an American woman have pleaded guilty to being part of an international criminal network that defrauded people on dating sites and social media.
In politics, there is no strategy without communication. Before any major move, a research-based decision is made. And in every decision brief, strategists include what matters most: the trade-off, or what a politician would rather lose in pursuit of a greater agenda.
Ukraine is fighting Russia — and the conflict may extend into Africa’s Sahel region.
Every couple of years, the same false stories come back. A claim that an election was rigged before a single vote was cast. An old video of violence, stripped of its date and place, presented as breaking news.
Fedir Kryshtovskyi24 October 2026 22:03
Kenya has recorded its second death from Ebola as it handles its first ever outbreak of the disease.
T-shirts bearing the slogan “Tinubu Must Go!” — a reference to Nigerian President Bola Tinubu — are at the center of an escalating crackdown on dissent in Nigeria’s vast north.
Kenya is grappling with its first ever outbreak of Ebola, a disease which neighbouring countries, such as Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, are used to dealing with.
Urban Africa is constantly finding ways to thicken urban life with new resourcefulness: from makeshift maker labs to the vast associations of traders with their own home-grown, expansive financial systems—where remittances circulate alongside locally generated credit and savings—to self-generated webs of electricity and water provisioning under the radar, to neighborhood investments in shared containers of…
