By Paul Ejime THE LATEST decision by the Burkina Faso junta to remove the ECOWAS logo from the country’s international passport is another move that questions the sincerity and critical thinking of that regime. The military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger decided in January this year to pull their countries out of ECOWAS, […]
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter UNLOCKING AFRICA’s economic potential through innovation took center stage at the 32nd anniversary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Nigeria. José Bamóquina ZAU, Angola’s Ambassador to Nigeria and Chairman of SADC Nigeria, stressed that innovation is crucial for driv...
By Ali Ocheni MALI, BURKINA Faso and Niger, the three Alliance of Sahel States, with the French acronym AES have so far rebuffed overtures from ECOWAS and the rest of the international community to return to the regional bloc after their threat to withdraw. This has put the future of the ECOWAS grouping in doubt. […]
By Paul Ejime WORRIED ABOUT the poor state of learning in Africa, “with nine out of 10 children unable to read with understanding or do basic maths by the age of ten,” African leaders and education stakeholders have called for an actionable Strategic Plan to prioritize Foundational Learning as the bedrock of education, human development [&hell...
By Paul Ejime ECOWAS HAS held countless high-level meetings, including regular and extraordinary summits by regional leaders on peace and security issues since the renewed military incursions in politics in the politically restive West African region in 2020. The Abuja summit on Sunday 7th July is no exception. On Saturday 6th July, ahead of t...
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu LESS THAN a decade ago, the detention centre of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Scheveningen on the outskirts of The Hague could easily have been mistaken for a committee meeting of leaders of the African Union. One of its long-term guests was Laurent Gbagbo, a former president of Côte d’Ivoire. […]
By Elmuntasir Ahmed Historical Context: IN SUDAN, there’s a lot that’s led to crisis over the years: famine, land and water issues; they all stem from deep-seated factors that are made worse by civil conflict and disputes in the region. This is also compounded by involvement of international financial institutions such as International Monetar...
By Paul Ejime POLITICALLY SPEAKING, India is the World’s largest democracy with a voter population of 969 million from the more than 1.4 billion inhabitants. It towers above South Africa, which has less than 62 million people, and about 28 million registered voters. The Asian giant is also the World’s fifth-largest economy, while Africa’...
By Randy J. Sa-ah IN OUR article released on April 23rd, titled “Revealing Shadows: The African Union Commission’s Unlawful Suspension of AFCONE’s Executive Secretary,” we made a solemn commitment. We pledged to conduct a comprehensive investigation spanning twelve articles, each meticulously exploring the various facets and reperc...
By Randy J. Sa-ah IN AN APRIL 2024 investigative report titled “Inquiry into AU Collaboration with Member Institutions in Africa: The Case of AFCONE,” the Congolese investigative reporter Freddy Mayombo shed light on the unlawful suspension of the Executive Secretary of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy Secretariat by the Ch...
