Tag Archives: Africa

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has weighed in on the rising military coups in Africa, saying the development shows that young people are in search of liberators. In recent years, there have been seven coups across Africa, with the latest happening in Gabon on August 30. Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Guinea, …

China will no longer be the world’s most populous nation. India’s population will overtake it this year at an estimated population of 1.42 billion.  It’s an epochal transition which speaks to other underlying demographic changes across the world, including the fact that China’s population has peaked and is now falling. Meanwhile, the region with the fastest-rising population – …

When we started Feed the Hungry project, we were not fully familiar with the grim reality of how a toxic cocktail of conflict, climate change, and the government’s failure to provide basic amenities has already left millions of people in Africa exposed to food price shocks and vulnerable to further …

The Federal Government has bemoaned the low level of insurance penetration in Africa and the poor contribution of the sector to the economy of most African economies. Minister of Finance, Budget & National Planning, Dr. Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, expressed this position at the 2023 West African Insurance Companies Association, …

When in 1943, Kenneth Kaunda was asked by the missionaries at Lubwa Mission to return to Chinsali from Munali School in Lusaka where he had spent two years from 1941 to take up a position as a Teacher and boarding master at his old school at Lubwa, he did not …