Analysis

For African media to play its natural role of enlightening, sensitizing and educating African citizens about the import of the landmark trade pact, the promoters of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) must, as a matter of urgency, incubate and roll-out a sustained media campaign to bridge the wide…

Africa is the world’s youngest continent whose youth population is projected to reach 1.3 billion by 2100 –  representing almost half the world’s  youth population at the time.     By Adam Alqali   Yet one of the biggest contradictions of Africa’s recent economic growth is the continent’s staggering youth…

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is Africa’s premier self-assessment, peer learning and experience sharing tool in democracy and good governance.     By Adam Alqali The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) came into being in 2003 as a voluntary tool for self-assessment, peer learning and experience sharing in democracy…

“If we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria” – President Muhammadu Buhari (2015)     By Adam Alqali Not even the euphoria that greeted Nigeria’s 1999 return to democracy equated that of the reemergence of Muhammadu Buhari as the country’s leader in 2015. His past stewardship of Nigeria (1984-85)…

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 AfCFTA process   In a bid to bridge the huge gap in intra-African trade, thanks to numerous tariff and non-tariff…

Nigeria’s quite proactive response to COVID-19 offers other African countries immense learning opportunities     On Friday, February 28, Nigeria confirmed its index case of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), making it the second African Union Member State (after Egypt) and the first in Sub Saharan Africa, to do so.…

Long before the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) arrived in Africa via Egypt in mid February 2020, everyone knew its emergence on the continent was a matter of when and not if…     Having first emerged in China’s central city of Wuhan in late 2019, the 2019 novel coronavirus…

Last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa of  the Republic of South Africa (RSA), addressed a gathering of his country’s ambassadors and heads of mission accredited to African countries, cabinet ministers and members of the diplomatic corps, in Tshwane, Pretoria; as South Africa assumes the one-year rotational chairship of the African Union…

On daily basis, Europe-bound West African economic migrants continue to die in the searing heat of the Sahara Desert or get drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, as they embark on the perilous sea crossing between the Libyan coast and the shores of the European continent      Estimates by the…

The African Union has always championed the cause of promoting democracy, good governance, human rights and rule of law in Africa; although the continent has made significant progress in its democratization drive – with many AU Member States currently enjoying quite stable democracies – the story in others is still…