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Temitope Balogun Joshua, one of Africa’s most popular televangelists who was known as T.B. Joshua, has died. He was 57. The Nigerian-born pastor was founder of the mega church Synagogue Church Of All Nations, or SCOAN, which also runs the Emmanuel Television Station in Lagos. The church announced his death in a statement on June …
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and a champion of African nationalism who spearheaded the fights to end white minority rule across southern Africa, has died at the age of 97. Kaunda’s death was announced on June 17 by Zambian President Edgar Lungu on his Facebook page. “On behalf of the entire nation and on my …
Human rights groups have welcomed the imprisonment of former South African President Jacob Zuma, who began serving a 15-month sentence on July 8 for defying a court order to testify at a judicial commission investigating allegations of widespread corruption during his 2009-18 tenure. Zuma, 79, surrendered to authorities shortly before a midnight Wednesday deadline and …
Almost 4 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide since they became publicly available late last year. But access in Africa has been extremely limited, with supplies restricted by the wealthiest countries buying up doses, drug companies refusing to share manufacturing processes, and donations delivered in small amounts and often delayed. Lori Hinnant, …
Over the last 15 years, international donor organizations have given more than $700 million to the U.S. firm Cepheid to supply its rapid disease-testing equipment to developing countries particularly African nations at a discount. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Cepheid most its COVID-test cartridges to wealthy nations who could afford to pay more and left …
On March 12, Patrice Motsepe became the new president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). He replaced Ahmad Ahmad, who was banned from world professional football for two years by FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), the sport’s global governing body. Motsepe, a South African mining magnate and owner of the Mamelodi Sundowns club …
Ethiopia’s 1994 constitution gave the country’s more than 80 ethnic groups unique rights to self-determination, but it also laid the groundwork for the political explosions – one that erupted last fall with the Tigray region, writer Addisu Lashitew argues. The violent aftermath of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front’s loss of power in Addis Ababa, he …
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement went into effect on Jan. 1, after being signed by all but one of the continent’s nations and ratified by two-thirds of them. It is intended to stimulate Africa’s economy by eliminating tariffs and other barriers to intracontinental trade, creating one market for 1.3 billion people. Yet getting it …
The NATO coalition bombing campaign in Libya in 2011 killed an unknown number of civilians, possibly more than 400. The eight nations involved have all refused to accept public responsibility for the harm they caused, and almost none of the families left behind have received compensation or an apology. They claim that the burden of …
The African National Congress’s share of the votes has steadily declined over South Africa’s last four general elections. Does this mean it will lose its majority in the 2024 election and have to form a coalition government, as the number of young voters demanding that the ANC deliver services and reduce corruption and unemployment grows to exceed …