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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…

Between February 24 and 27, about 3, 000 delegates including cabinet ministers and other high-level representatives of UN, AU and its Regional Economic Communities (RECs), convened in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, for the 6th session of Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-6), themed: “2020–2030: A Decade to Deliver a Transformed…

Major world powers are jostling for political and economic influence in Africa, but what is behind the renewed interest on the continent and what are African countries doing about it? The BBC’s Dickens Olewe reports.     In recent years Africans have become used to seeing their leaders accumulate air…

Every week, international NGOs looking to add African partners to their proposals reach out to Population Works Africa.     Too often, representatives of these NGOs have not done their research, according to Stephanie Kimou, founder and lead consultant at the consulting firm, which seeks “to disrupt the historically white space of power…

Last week, the African Union was on a strategic mission to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), aimed at fast-tracking the harmonization of Pan African industrialization frameworks, by the Regional Economic Communities (RECs); the AU also validated its study on financing Africa’s industrialization   As far as economic…

The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), a fortnight ago, hosted school feeding managers from across the Nigerian federation to a capacity building workshop on the use of the School Meal Planner (SMP) tool; which enables users to create nutritionally-balanced and market costed school meals, using daily nutritional allowances, as recommended…

A fortnight ago, about 300 scientists from across Africa and beyond where in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on the occasion of the 35th general conference of the International Scientific Council for Trypanosomiasis Research and Control (ISCTRC), convened by the African Union InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR)     The…

In a bid to promote intra-African trade and Pan African industrialization, the AU has continued to evolve various normative frameworks aimed at the successful realization of its vision “for an integrated, people-centred, prosperous Africa,”  as enshrined in Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want   Economic integration was one of the…

With a projected young population of  almost 1 billion by 2050, to effectively harness this potentially huge treasure or rather avert an already looming catastrophe, Africa must evolve an all-inclusive three-pronged strategy for achieving political, economic and social inclusion     Beginning from the late 20th century, Africa has often…

The South Africa Science Forum 2018 (SFSA 2018) themed: “Igniting conversations about science” focused on the role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in Africa’s growth and development     Typical of South Africa’s sunny and temperate interior climate, it was a relatively cool afternoon at the one-hundred-and ten-year-old University…