This elegy is written in Temne, one of the major languages of Sierra Leone. It is in honour of the late Sierra Leonean writer Gbanabom Hallowell (photo). A (...)
Are the Monuments and Relics Commission and the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs Capable of Identiying and Protecting Sierra Leone’s Historical (...)
The Governments of Rwanda and Norway have jointly launched a High Ambition Coalition to end plastic pollution (https://bit.ly/3PLioJZ). The coalition was (...)
ECA (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa), in partnership with Betacube, has announced the launch of its first Tech African Women program, (...)
Soaring inflation rates have seen an increase in the number of poor people in developing countries by 71 million in the three months since March 2022, the (...)
The World Circular Economy Forum (https://bit.ly/3ydYwtk) will, for the first time, take place on African soil in 2022, bringing together participants from (...)
“We shouldn’t wait for development to end child labour. On the contrary, ending child labour is key to sustainable development.” says ILO Assistant (...)
Africa’s gross domestic product has recovered strongly in the last year, but the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and (...)
The ECA Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA) in collaboration with the Angolan Government and the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office (...)
WHO press release The African Region accounted for 66% of the 303,000 maternal deaths recorded globally in 2017. To address this situation, WHO in (...)
Africa.com, in partnership with The Coca-Cola Company launched the Women Heads of State Initiative last month, and as part of the initiative they are (...)
As the Sub-Saharan African economy struggles to recover from the 2020 recession induced by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the region now faces new (...)
