SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA: Orphaned during a coup in his homeland Guinea, teenager Moussa Camara took to sea in a wooden boat with 240 other migrants, enduring an 11-day voyage, half of it without food and fresh water, before reaching the Canary Islands. Twenty people
Kyiv: Ukraine's foreign minister began a tour of African countries this week, stepping up wartime Kyiv's diplomatic push to challenge Russian influence in the "Global South" and cement the vision laid out by Ukraine as the only path to peace. Top diplomat Dmytro Kuleba said his
Goungour, Chad: When a power struggle between Sudan's rival military leaders shattered a tenuous peace in her village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, Halime Yacoub Issac's first instinct was to take her five children and run. But four days after seeking refuge in neighbouring Chad
Washington: Africa is struggling with the triple shock of rising debt burdens, an ongoing food crisis and climate change fallout and needs more help from international institutions and wealthy nations to cope, African finance ministers said. Developing African economies were only beginning to recover from the
Berlin: The German authorities have announced that the country is planning to make changes to the asylum process. According to the Special Commissioner for Migration of Germany, Joachim Stamp, the government is currently assessing options for transferring asylum procedures to the continent of Africa. At the same
Abuja: President Muhammadu Buhari urged leaders to place a premium on youth development, with more seriousness and actionable ideas in promoting skills acquisitions, while discouraging idleness. Speaking at the African Conference for Peace, in 2023, the President said the idleness of youths and non-inclusion in discussing
Joseph Sany, Ph.D. America’s new strategy toward Africa, released this week amid Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to the continent, offers promise for a newly productive relationship, and not a moment too soon. Global crises such as food insecurity, pandemic diseases and climate change — and