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High-level stakeholders in Africa’s peace and security space on Monday converged virtually to discuss contemporary and potential opportunities of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA); it was the first … Read More
Isyaku Yarube, the forty-eight-year-old Moscow-trained medical physiologist and academic is on a mission to find “what goes wrong when someone loses their memory (dementia), whether as a result of aging … Read More
What do FTAs mean for African women? A critical look into the African Continental Free Trade Area The recently ratified African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) looms over … Read More
My brother and colleague Mr. Oladayo Olaide adds another year today to his age. The joyous occasion presents an opportunity to embark on an excursion down memory lane. My … Read More
With Africa reeling from multiple crises this year, the region’s governments will have to direct their policy responses not just toward short-term recovery, but also toward long-term sustainability and resilience. … Read More
To create quality job opportunities for Africa’s growing youth population, the continent’s governments should both nurture the informal sector and encourage informal businesses to formalize their operations. To this end, … Read More
Nombulelo Mbokazi is the executive director of the Agenda 2063 Academy, focused on making African citizens main drivers of the implementation of African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. … Read More
It is wholly unacceptable that a mother in sub-Saharan Africa is over 100 times more likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than a woman in Western Europe in an … Read More
Little knowledge is always dangerous. It leads to wrong readings, perception and action on a particular issue. Ignorance was described by John Foster in 1821 as “waste howling wilderness” to … Read More
As Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria’s sluggishness in signing the AfCFTA and its subsequent failure to ratify the agreement over a year later, is a major concern among stakeholders in the … Read More
