Interviews
INTERVIEW | “How We’re Coordinating Implementation of Africa Mining Vision” – AMDC
Mr Mkhululi Ncube is the Programmes Manager at the African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC), a specialised agency of the African Union mandated to work with Member States to promote the transformative role of mineral resources in Africa’s development. Mkululi Ncube, Programmes Manager at the African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) Newspage:…
Read More »INTERVIEW | “Why Advancing Women’s Financial Inclusion Will Ignite Africa’s Development?”
Aishatu Debola Aminu is the Nigeria Country Director of the New Faces New Voices (NFNV), a flagship initiative of the Graça Machel Trust (GMT) which champions increasing African women’s access to finance and financial services to close the economic gap for women. A force to reckon with in Nigeria’s financial…
Read More »INTERVIEW | “Only Domestic Funding will Help Africa Create Prosperity through STI” – AU-STRC
Dr (Engr) Ahmed Hamdy, Executive Director of the African Union Scientific, Technical and Research Commission (AU-STRC), decries Africa’s low-level funding for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) which inhibits its development. Dr (Engr) Ahmed Hamdy, Executive Director of the African Union Scientific, Technical and Research Commission (AU-STRC) Newspage: The AU-STRC is…
Read More »INTERVIEW | What AU Must Do for Member States to Implement its Free Movement Protocol- Prof Faal
Prof Gibril Faal, a world-renowned migration expert cum visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics (LSE), speaks about labor migration and free movement in Africa vis-à-vis the African Union Free Movement Protocol (AU FMP). Newspage: You blame the ‘lump of labor’ fallacy for discrimination against…
Read More »INTERVIEW | “Germany Will Continuously Remain Africa’s Strong Partner” – Director, GIZ African Union
Dr Tobias Thiel, Director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Office to the African Union, speaks on the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (BMZ) New Africa Strategy: Shaping the Future with Africa, focused on trade, migration, peace and security as well as public health, among…
Read More »INTERVIEW | How Africa sets world’s women, peace and security agenda – AU WPS Envoy
Since 2014, Mme. Bineta Diop has served as AU Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), advocating for the implementation of the continent’s WPS agenda and raising the voices of women and girls affected by conflicts. She speaks on how Africa’s pioneering WPS agenda is being copied by countries…
Read More »FREEMIUM | Africa’s natural resources its bargaining chip for better partnerships – ECA Chief
In commemoration of Africa Day 2023, we bring you an exclusive interview with acting executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), on ECA’s crucial role in Africa’s effort to boost intra-African trade, achieve industrialization and economic transformation. Newspage: The African Union theme for 2023 is accelerating…
Read More »INTERVIEW | AU@20: How AU can better serve African people in the next 30 years – Wafula Okumu
In this no-holds-barred interview, Prof Wafula Okumu, co-editor of the book African Union at 20: African Perspectives on Progress, Challenges and Prospects, provides an incisive analysis of the trajectory of the African Union’s evolution, challenges as well as its prospects for integrating, unifying, and developing Africa. PAV: You…
Read More »EXCLUSIVE | How we’ll mobilise domestic resources for Africa’s infrastructure development – Raila Odinga
Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga cum the African Union High Representative for Infrastructure Development, speaks exclusively to African Newspage on the sidelines of the recent 2nd Dakar Financing Summit for Infrastructure Development (DFS-2) on de-risking investment in Africa and making the continent attractive for domestic private investment. …
Read More »INTERVIEW| Why Africa’s trade, industrialization agendas must be intertwined – Pamela Coke-Hamilton
Pamela Coke Hamilton, executive director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), speaks exclusively to African Newspage on the sidelines of the recently held 2022 Africa Industrialization Week (AIW) in Niamey, Niger. Newspage: You are one of the organizing partners for the 2022 Africa Industrialization Week (AIW). Why are…
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World Robot Olympiad Expands in Africa, Empowering Youth Through Robotics and Innovation
56 students were introduced to robotics (including 20 students with special needs), at the …
