“A dirty game”: Agents and landlords exploit house seekers in Lagos
By Ope Adetayo
Favour Irabor, a 22-year old university student, lives with her mother and siblings in a church facility in Mushin, one of the...
African countries want to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines. G7 nations’ patent protections...
By Nosmot Gbadamosi
At the G7 summit last week in Cornwall, southwest England, Western countries announced a plan to vaccinate the rest of the world...
The Buhari administration’s anti-poverty schemes aren’t working
By Olakunle Ologunro
Two years ago, Foluke Akinosho*, a 63-year-old petty trader who sells food provisions in the Mushin area of Lagos, Nigeria, received a...
The Nigerian government declares war on cryptocurrency
By Pelumi Salako
On February 5, 2021, The Central Bank of Nigeria released a circular that restricts Nigerian banks, non-banking financial institutions and other financial...
Nigerians face extortion and Covid-19 when registering national identity numbers
By Ope Adetayo
On December 15th, 2020, the Nigerian National Commission issued a directive that all SIM cards must be linked with the owner’s National...
Covid-19 puts 1.4 million children out of school in Liberia
By Varney Kamara
BONG MINES, Liberia - Fatu Flomo, 53, is a farmer and a mother of four children and three grandchildren. Victoria, Flomo’s youngest...
After a five-day strike in Mali, an estimated 30 billion FCFA...
By M. A. Diallo
The National Union of Workers of Mali (UNTM) launched a nationwide strike on Monday, December 14, 2020 and will continue until...
Mali: farmers postpone the cultivation cotton
The fall in the price of cotton and the rise in the price of fertilizer have angered farmers. From Koutiala to Yorosso, the producers...
Covid-19 / Burkina Faso: all scenarios predict a bad time for...
From March 09 to June 5, 2020, Burkina Faso has recorded a total of 889 confirmed cases of covid-19, 53 deaths and 772 recovered....
Economy: Towards a rebound in growth in sub-Saharan Africa
Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is rebounding in 2017, having registered its lowest level in more than two decades in 2016. This is what...