The World cup has begun! And five African nations will be playing in the tournament. As the excitement builds for the competition, BBC News Africa is giving the audience the chance to be the manager o ... Read more

WednesdayJune 13th at noon, Dr Perry Brimah and members of the "Cabal Must Go" movement will begin protests at Cameroonian embassies in Lagos and around the world, to protest the unhinged deadly tortu ... Read more

Currently a senior financial economist at the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), Ms. Yinusa also runs the GENN Initiative (Girls Education in Northern Nigeria) foundation, which pays for young girls to g ... Read more

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and executive director of UN Women, recently began a second term in office. In her first term, she drew attention to women’s issues ... Read more

Africa’s experience on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) presents a paradox. Conventionally, capital is expected to flow from countries with low to high returns. During 2006-2011, the regio ... Read more

ayathma Wickramanayake, 27, from Sri Lanka, is the new UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth. Her role is to expand the UN’s youth engagement and advocacy efforts. She also serves as an ad ... Read more

President Museveni recommends the Ugandans to embark on commercialisedagriculture in the fight against poverty. “68 percent homesteads that are still subsistence arethatare a big source of ou ... Read more

I nterest in cryptocurrency, a form of digital currency, is growing steadily in Africa. Some economists say it is a disruptive innovation that will blossom on the continent. Cryptocurrency is not ... Read more

[B]Kigali Rwanda, June 6, 2018 –[/B] The African Development Bank, together with partners – The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook – launched the Coding for Employment Pr ... Read more