Sub-Saharan Africa Archives

In Nigeria, We Must Urgently Re-examine Our Politics – Eng Muhammed Abba-Gana

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2022In: NewsLogTags: Capitalism, ICT culture, Latin America, Satan, Severe poverty, Sub-Saharan AfricaNo CommentsViews:

Engineer Muhammed Abba-Gana, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and a member of the Board of Trustees, (BOT) of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) is asserting the case for... Read more

Red Alert on Water Crisis in Africa

Posted By: adminon: March 29, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: African continent, Lake Victoria, Sub-Saharan Africa, UNICEF, World Resources InstituteNo CommentsViews:

An Inter-Press Service feature originally titled “Water Scarcity in Africa to Reach Dangerously High Levels By 2025 is reproduced here for the message it is sending – a red alert which... Read more

Putin is Not Quite Lonely, Says Washington Post

Posted By: adminon: March 11, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: CHINA, Giants of the global South, India, Moscow, NATO group, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, S/Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western colonialismNo CommentsViews:

The Washington Post does not think that President Vladimir Putin of Russia is comprehensively isolated by the world and lonely. The leading US newspaper which devoted substantial portion of... Read more

Why COVID-19 is Not Killing Africans in Thousands, Yet

Posted By: adminon: August 18, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: HIV, Malaria, SOUTH AFRICA, Sub-Saharan Africa, TB, UgandaNo CommentsViews:

Afghanistan and anarchy in Nigeria might have stolen the headlines but Covid-19 is still a threat in its own right. Although Africans are not dying in hundreds of thousands as initially fear... Read more

UNDP Joins in the Contending Narratives of Migration

Posted By: adminon: October 24, 2019In: FlashbackTags: Council on Foreign Relations, Sub-Saharan Africa, UNDPNo CommentsViews:

The battle for the control of the story of African migrants to Europe is on again, with the United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP) stepping in the second time in a few years. It has ju... Read more

Pushing Towards Victory Against HIV

Posted By: adminon: June 14, 2019In: FlashbackTags: HIV Vaccine Trials NetworkUhambo, HIV/AIDS, Imbokodo, Sub-Saharan AfricaNo CommentsViews:

By Glenda Gray There is still no cure for HIV/AIDS in the sense of a vaccine shot that clears the mess but the world is not sleeping. In this piece reproduced from The Conversation Online, (... Read more

UNDP Bombshell: Poverty, Not Religion, Propelled Boko Haram, Al-Shababa

Posted By: adminon: November 20, 2017In: FlashbackTags: Emancipation, Extremism, Poverty, Structural violence, Sub-Saharan Africa, UNDPNo CommentsViews:

In a major report it is calling the first of its kind, the United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP), is reinforcing the view that poverty is what radicalises young people into extremism... Read more

World Bank Seeks for Six-month Fellows from Sub-Saharan Africa

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2017In: BookspaceTags: DFID, PhD, Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Pennyslavania, WBGNo CommentsViews:

Those for whom a stint with the World Bank wouldn’t be a bad idea have a golden opportunity to try their luck by applying for the 2018 World Bank Group Africa Fellowship Program. The p... Read more

Good Governance is our right, not a privilege

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2016In: Spectacle, UncategorizedTags: Algeria, ANC, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, GDP, MIF, Mo Ibrahim, NIGERIA, SOUTH AFRICA, Sub-Saharan AfricaNo CommentsViews:

By Jay Naidoo The 2016 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, the most comprehensive in Africa, launched on Monday by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, reveals that improvement in overall governance... Read more