By Gregory Simpkins The announcement of a so-called “permanent” cease-fire agreement in Ethiopia’s Tigray war sparked optimism among those outside Ethiopia, as well as those clinging...
AP |The presidents of South Africa and Kenya said Wednesday they have resolved a long-standing visa dispute and Kenyans will be able to visit South Africa...
AP | Democrat Wes Moore was elected Maryland’s first Black governor Tuesday, defeating Republican Dan Cox in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1. Moore’s victory...
Caribbean-American legislators are urging voters in the community to exercise their franchise and cast ballots on Tuesday during the important United States midterm elections. “Early voting...
The President of the Haitian Senate, Joseph Lambert, says he will challenge the decision of the United States and Canada for imposing sanctions against him for...
By Gregory Simpkins Pollution has been significantly diminished in developed countries due to the use of less polluting energy sources such as unleaded gasoline and natural...
Billionaire businessmen Jay-Z and Jeff Bezos are in talks on a possible joint venture. The Roc Nation founder and Amazon founder are exploring a potential joint...
AP | The fire burning on Mount Kilimanjaro for almost 2 weeks has been largely contained after hundreds of military personnel were deployed to help, Tanzania’s...
Reuters | The Ethiopian government and regional forces from Tigray agreed on Wednesday to cease hostilities, a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough 2 years into a conflict that...
Sevetri Wilson, the founder, and CEO of Resilia, has made history once again. On October 27, the SaaS platform announced its US$35 million Series B funding...
The supply and distribution of food and disaster relief items to Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states will soon be facilitated by two separately-managed regional logistics hubs,...
AFP | Wilson Kiprugut Chuma, the middle-distance runner who became Kenya’s first Olympic medalist at the 1964 Tokyo Games, has died at the age of 84,...
The Antigua & Barbuda government has defended the decision to allow for Antigua Airways to operate flights from West Africa directly to the Caribbean country saying...
By Gregory Simpkins Since the days of African independence, the continent has been bedeviled by internal and external conflicts. There have been coups like the recent...
AP | Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation inspired stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace...
When FedEx Custom Critical CEO Ramona Hood started her career at the transportation provider, her initial goal was not to become the first African American woman...
Bloomberg | Funding for African startups is on track to hit a record this year despite a slowdown globally, according to a recent report. Venture capital...
The Trinidad & Tobago government says it is using the “very successful” model implemented by Jamaica with its Junior Stock Exchange (JSE) to develop its Small...
AP | Zimbabwe says it is on the brink of its biggest wheat harvest in history, thanks in large part to efforts to overcome food supply...
Billionaire investor, Robert F. Smith, shared how he achieves company growth and long-term success on Thursday at the 2022 Inc. 5000 Conference & Gala in Phoenix,...
Reuters | Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi will serve as a facilitator for the political transition process in Chad, Central Africa’s main regional body...
The President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon, Monday warned it “cannot be business as usual” urging a new global trade deal...
AP | Peace talks to end Ethiopia’s devastating Tigray conflict have begun in South Africa, a South African government spokesman said Tuesday. The spokesman for South...
HiPipo, a Ugandan fintech firm, has been among the world’s Top 20 companies escalating innovation in the digital financial services market by the Global Business Leaders...
NBA Hall Of Famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson is reportedly interested in buying a stake in the National Football League’s Las Vegas Raiders. The ownership stake that...
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Saturday announced a Cabinet reshuffle – the second in 2 years. Mottley, who made the announcement at the 83rd Annual...
By Gregory Simpkins For more than a century, members of the African Diaspora in America and the Caribbean have made efforts to create linkages with our...
Press Release | African Development Bank (AfDB) Group President Akinwumi Adesina is pleased to announce the appointment of Hassatou Diop N’Sele, as Acting Vice-President for Finance...
Reuters |South Africa’s financial watchdog has classified cryptocurrency assets as financial products, a notice in the government gazette said on Wednesday, enabling them to be regulated....
Press Release | Carver Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank, a certified Minority Depository Institution, has announced the appointment of Robin L....
Last May, the Nigerian presidency launched the Nigeria Startup Bill in collaboration with a group of Nigerian tech leaders and several government bodies to govern how...
The Belizean government has tabled a bill – the People’s Constitution Commission Bill – that will allow for a commission to draft and guide the process...
Members of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) who recently paid a visit to Aliko Dangote’s multi-billion-dollar refinery disclosed that the refinery is...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has launched a major regional platform to facilitate intra-regional trade in goods and agricultural products. The CARICOM Interactive Marketplace Suspension Procedure (CIMSUPRO)...
By Gregory Simpkins It has become fashionable in the developed world community to criticize Africa for the lack of unity among its component members, as evidenced...
Bloomberg | Africa’s annual exports are expected to double to US$540 billion by 2030 from a decade earlier, chiefly on shipments from Nigeria to the Asian...
Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry is urging the regional integration movement, of which his country is a member, to express solidarity and request assistance to alleviate...
Bloomberg | Uganda plans to identify potential partners in the coming year to develop East Africa’s first nuclear power plant, which may cost as much as...
Bloomberg | Lesotho’s Revolution for Prosperity party (RFP), which won the most seats in last week’s parliamentary elections, has teamed up with two smaller rivals to...
The Bahamas government has announced an increase in the minimum wage as well as placing 38 new items under price control amid efforts to diversify the...
The presidents of Tanzania and Kenya have agreed to fast-track the construction of a natural gas pipeline designed to increase trade and lower energy costs for...
JIS | Data from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) indicate that the country is on track to returning to pre-COVID-19 levels of economic output by...
The Senate has approved a resolution urging the prime minister to withdraw his request calling for international partners to immediately deploy a specialized armed force in...
Bloomberg | Serena Williams’ venture capital firm is backing Nigerian data and insights firm Stears Inc., in a US$3.3 million seed round led by MaC Venture...
The East African | Kenya exported its first goods under the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement to Ghana late last month. Kenyan-made Exide batteries...
Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder and business mogul Robert L. Johnson is taking his biggest plunge to help close or narrow the nation’s lingering racial wealth...
The Antigua & Barbuda government has announced an amnesty for persons “still struggling” to deal with the financial impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has...
By Gregory Simpkins While eyes around the world are on Russia – because of its war on Ukraine, which is negatively affecting Africa and elsewhere, the...
Howard University’s College of Medicine has named its new dean, and for the first time in history, a Black woman will lead the school. Andrea A....
Reuters | Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been set free following the expiry of his prison sentence for contempt of court, a government department...
AFP | British running legend Mo Farah said on Thursday he is aiming for an April return from injury to road racing, adding he is covering...
Bloomberg | Two vaccines being developed to treat the type of Ebola that’s killed 29 people in Uganda may start clinical trials in the coming weeks,...
Reuters | African countries will use the COP27 climate talks in Egypt next month to advocate for a common energy position that sees fossil fuels as...
Senior financial officials from the region will on Thursday discuss how Caribbean people can benefit from the digitization of their country’s payments systems when the Central...
Reuters | Ketanji Brown Jackson settled into her role as the Supreme Court’s newest justice on Monday by posing frequent questions during arguments on her first...
Last month, the Harbor Bank of Maryland (Harbor Bank) celebrated its 40th anniversary. Since 1982, the commercial bank has been serving Maryland, D.C. and Northern Virginia,...
By Gregory Simpkins Much has been written and said about how the world’s big powers have squeezed Africa into the middle of their global conflicts –...
For the first time in 45 years, a new medical school at a historically Black college or university is opening and it’s proposed at Morgan State...
AP | Coolio, the rapper who was among hip-hop’s biggest names of the 1990s with hits including “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died Wednesday at age...
Bloomberg | A third-party candidate is the top choice to become the next president of Africa’s most populous country, according to a new opinion poll. A...
AP | Barbados announced last week that it is refinancing part of its debt to help save the ocean as part of an unusual deal. Government...
AFP | With Nigeria’s economy struggling and insecurity rife, four top presidential candidates start campaigning this week for next February’s election in an open race to...
The National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference is an event where the HBCU community comes together to envision how to combat the barriers it...
By Gregory Simpkins I attended the first Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) in New York recently. It was well produced and well attended, and I got...
AFP | Kenyan great Eliud Kipchoge has beaten his own world marathon record by 30 seconds, running 2hr 01min 10sec in Berlin on Sunday. At the...
Reuters | A consortium led by Ethiopian Airlines is the preferred bidder for shares in new Nigerian airline Nigeria Air, the country’s aviation minister said on...
By Laurence Sithole | The Exchange Sub-Saharan Africa and its northern counterpart hold great economic promise. Africa’s investment case remains a compelling proposition. The continent is...
The Barbados government said it is discontinuing all coronavirus (COVID-19) related travel protocols for entering the island-nation, approving also a number of fundamental changes to the...
Reuters | Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty, according to a new criminal code signed by veteran President Teodoro Obiang, adding to a growing list...
AP | African Union (AU) chairperson Macky Sall said Tuesday that Africa “does not want to be the breeding ground of a new Cold War,” alluding...
Antigua Observer | The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) yesterday issued a statement on the increasingly disturbing situation in Haiti. The following is the text of the communique:...
Reuters | Ghana has declared the end of an outbreak of Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, that was confirmed in July, the...
AFP | The Queen’s death has put the wind at the back of republican movements in a region once dominated by the British empire, analysts say,...
By Gregory Simpkins A lot of attention has been given to China’s involvement in Africa, and of course, the ongoing participation of Europe’s former colonial powers...
Haiti’s President of the Senate Joseph Lambert has told the nation that a new governance structure will be in place within the next 48 hours. In...
“Africa should be allowed the space to choose its own partners and should never again find itself as a battleground for influence among the global powers.”...
Reuters | U.N. children’s agency UNICEF on Thursday named Vanessa Nakate, a 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist, goodwill ambassador. Inspired by Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, Nakate began her...
BKR Capital, the first institutionally backed Black-led venture fund in Canada, has celebrated its first anniversary by closing a fundraising round that blew past its targets....
Haiti announced on Wednesday new prices for fuel even as protesters took to the streets throughout the capital, against the move and crippling traffic in the...
Bloomberg | João Lourenço was sworn in for a second term as president of Angola, 3 weeks after he won a disputed election that was challenged...
AP | Fifteen years after being rejected as too controversial, Malcolm X is the first Black honoree to be inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame....
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Carla Barnett has acknowledged that the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) has not kept “pace with the...
Reuters | William Ruto was sworn as Kenya’s 5th president on Tuesday, taking the helm a week after the country’s top court threw out petitions challenging...
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has condemned persons whom he said want to acquire political power in the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country without first seeking...
SABC | The Kenyan president-elect William Ruto says he has spoken to outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta about the handing over process that will see Ruto officially...
By Gregory Simpkins Between 1870 and 1900, the so-called “scramble for Africa” resulted in almost all the continent coming under European colonial control. The United Kingdom...
Reuters | Antigua & Barbuda plans to hold a referendum on becoming a republic within the next 3 years, the Caribbean nation’s prime minister told British...
Reuters | The Zambian government expects its economy to grow at 4 percent per year in the medium term and is focused on resolving the country’s...
Ghanaian plant geneticist, and professor, Eric Yirenkyi Danquah has been awarded the 2022 Africa Food Prize at the AGRF2022 Summit. The event took place on the...
AP | Thousands of people in Haiti’s capital and other major cities organized new protests on Wednesday to demand safer streets, more affordable goods and the...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Carla Barnett, says while the current arrangements allow for Caribbean people to “pick up and move from one CARICOM state to...
Bloomberg | The giant refinery being built in Nigeria by Africa’s richest person, Aliko Dangote, will finally start operations by mid-2023, according to state oil company,...
PRNewswire | Early last month, SparkCharge, the world’s first mobile EV charging network, announced its CEO and Founder, Joshua (Josh) Aviv, had participated in the signing...
Reuters | Ethiopia’s government has decided to open up the country’s banking sector to foreign investors, the prime minister’s office said on Saturday, the latest measure...
The government of Guyana says the country is expected to earn US$1.1 billion from the energy sector this year. According to a report from the country’s...
By Gregory Simpkins Agency is defined as “the sense of control you feel in life, your capacity to influence your own thoughts and behavior, and the...
AP | Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT. The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys. Obama won...
AFP | Ethiopian Airlines, the leading African flag carrier, on Wednesday reported a surge in profit for the last financial year, in sharp contrast to the...
AP | Serena Williams eliminated number two seed Anett Kontaveit 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 in the US Open’s second round Wednesday night to ensure that the...
AFP | More than 50,000 fighters including former rebels from rival camps in South Sudan’s civil war were set to be integrated into the country’s army...
California Rep. Karen Bass has been formidable in the polls since announcing her run for mayor of Los Angeles, and now, she seems to be pulling...
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court on Monday upheld a motion by a self-described gay man challenging the constitutionality of sections of the Offences Against the Person...
Reuters | Walmart Inc., has launched a 6.4 billion rand (US$377.6 million) offer for the remaining 47 percent of South African retailer Massmart it does not...
By Gregory Simpkins Elections play a significant part in the establishment and maintenance of representative democracy worldwide, but all too often, the entirety of the process...
AFP | Angolans and world leaders gathered on Sunday for the state funeral of former president José Eduardo dos Santos. The memorial service was held at...
AP | Angolans are anxiously watching the vote counting in their election race between the ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party and...
AFP | After a glittering 27-year professional career in which she became one of the greatest players of all time, Serena Williams is preparing to bid...
Bloomberg | Kenya Airways Plc is looking to reduce jet-leasing costs by more than a third as the carrier targets break even by 2024. Negotiations with...
AP | Angolans are voting in an election in which President João Lourenço is seeking a second term and longtime opposition party National Union for the...
AP | A couple of thousand protesters in Haiti’s capital and other major cities blocked roads, shut down businesses, and marched through the streets Monday to...
AFP | South Africa’s unemployment rate fell for a second consecutive quarter despite widespread power cuts and devastating floods, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said Tuesday....
By Faustine Ngila A new cybersecurity center in Togo is poised to add into efforts by individual African countries to secure the continent’s cyberspace. In November...
Bloomberg | Nigeria has appointed Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, to lead a committee commissioned with eliminating malaria in the West African nation as the mosquito-borne...
The United States Department of State has announced a leadership programme in honor of the late Caribbean-American Secretary of State Colin Powell. The State Department said...
Consumers in Barbados will be paying less for gasoline and diesel come Friday as Prime Minister Mia Mottley announced that the price of fuel at the...
Reuters | Angolan voters will choose next Wednesday, in what looks like the closest ever election in Africa’s second-biggest oil producer. Who are the main players?...
By Chuka Onwumechili The Confederation for African Football (CAF) recently announced plans for a continent-wide Africa Super League. It will kick off with 24 clubs from...
Reuters | Ethiopia has completed the third phase of filling the reservoir for its huge dam on the Blue Nile river, the government said on Friday,...
Media and entertainment mogul Byron Allen believes the news and media industry needs more inclusion, an issue he will address now that he is the owner...
A number of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are seeing an increase in Black students applying and enrolling after years of decline. “The percentage of...
By Cara Anna | The Associated Press Kenya’s electoral commission chairman has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over 5-time...
By Gregory Simpkins There has been a lot of discussion about the African Diaspora and its importance in US-Africa trade and general relations. However, just counting...
By Gregory Simpkins The Biden Administration is about to release its Africa policy within days of this writing. Most U.S. Administrations do this at some point,...
Bloomberg | South Africa’s TymeBank plans to acquire a local lender to small businesses to help the banking startup backed by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe...
Bloomberg | Los Angeles Lakers basketball star LeBron James is betting on the boom in cycling with an investment in Germany’s Canyon Bicycles GmbH. Canyon has...
Reuters | Nigeria has added more than 10 million new voters to its election register, most of them youths, ahead of a presidential vote next February,...
The Organization of American States (OAS) says that following an invitation from the Government of St. Kitts & Nevis, it will deploy an Electoral Observation Mission...
By Gregory Simpkins I have written previously about Nigeria being the “essential nation” in Africa. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), successive U.S. Administrations have...
Barbados is scheduled to host more than 700 African businesspeople, investors, and representatives of financial institutions during the first Africa-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) from...
AFP | Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) reported a fresh discovery of offshore oil and natural gas by Italian firm Eni on Thursday, expanding the potential of...
Reuters | Nigerian opposition Senators pushed for President Muhammadu Buhari to face impeachment, 10 months before the end of his second term in office, over the...
Jamaica has launched a gender and climate change strategy and action plan (GCCSAP) that it says has been developed and guided by a national gender and...
The chief executive of 3BlackDot Holdings Inc. has bought the business, making it one of the few Black-owned media companies at a time when many marketers...
Reuters | – Burkina Faso’s former president, Blaise Compaore, has apologized to the family of his late predecessor, Thomas Sankara, whose 1987 murder a military court...
St. Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, Monday proposed a single-item referendum asking citizens of the country to decide whether or not to replace...
As the burgeoning Guyanese offshore oil and gas industry goes from strength to strength, powered by the Stabroek block, government revenue from domestic production is on...
AFP | Liberia has allowed dual citizenship, reversing a longtime ban viewed by some as hypocritical as many elites secretly held US citizenship. The bill, signed...
By Gregory Simpkins I count myself blessed to have been involved in the creation of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and nearly a dozen...
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is buying the Black News Channel (BNC), with plans to revive the bankrupt cable news outlet and significantly grow its distribution...
Bloomberg | A Nigerian startup backed by private-equity firm Lightrock LLP is looking to deploy electric vehicles in about 8 African countries by next year as...
Business Wire | PAVmed Inc. (“PAVmed”), a diversified commercial-stage medical technology company operating in the medical device, diagnostics, and digital health sectors, has announced that its...
The main Opposition St. Kitts & Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) on Monday welcomed the announcement of the August 5 general election date, saying it brings to...
By Gregory Simpkins The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) June Global Trends reported that by the end of 2021, the number of people displaced...
Reuters | Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is meeting on Thursday with his predecessors and longtime rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie in an effort...
Earlier this week, the internXL digital platform announced its commitment to provide quality jobs for the next generation of Black innovators with free training courses and...
Kenya will become a regional hub for medical equipment, which will help neighboring countries get required medicines faster.
Bloomberg | The Las Vegas Raiders, grappling with allegations of a hostile work environment, named Sandra Douglass Morgan to be the team’s president, making her the...
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister Keith Rowley says that come mid-July, the public will no longer be required to wear masks. The Prime Minister made the...
By Gregory Simpkins On April 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken proudly announced the appointment of Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S. Special Envoy for...
AP | Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the US Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the...
Bloomberg | Actor Idris Elba is in talks to take part in a bid for state-owned broadcaster Channel Four Television Corp. that could be valued at...
Rwanda will host the new African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, a venture by the African Development Bank (AfDB) that is expected to boost the continent’s access to...
AP | A newcomer to politics has ousted Grenada’s longest serving prime minister in a tight general elections on the eastern Caribbean island-nation. Dickon Mitchell’s National...
Reuters | Nigeria’s Chief Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad has resigned on health grounds, two sources in the president’s office said on Monday, but there was no...
By Gregory Simpkins On May 30, 2019, the framework agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) entered into force, But this continental body still...
Reuters | Commonwealth members voted to keep Patricia Scotland as secretary-general of the 54-nation club after some members including Britain tried to oust her, 2 sources...
Reuters | Africa must wean itself off dependence on food and medicine imports, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said, as the institution approved...
AP | LeBron James and Naomi Osaka are becoming teammates in the entertainment world. Tennis star Osaka and her agent and business partner, Stuart Duguid, are...
Bloomberg | Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera fired his head of police and said he won’t delegate duties to Vice President Saulos Chilima after they were named...
By Imali Ngusale The 5th of June was set aside by the African Union (AU) to observe and commemorate the Day of the African Child (within...
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19), according to an officially released statement. The statement by the Office of the Prime...
Kenyan engineer Norah Magero, has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s 2022 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation with Vaccibox, a small, mobile, solar-powered fridge that safely...
When Colombians on Sunday elected their first leftist president ever, they also voted for their country’s first Black vice-president. Francia Márquez, a Black single mother who...
By Gregory Simpkins The Corporate Council on Africa recently hosted a briefing in Washington by United Nations High Representative for Infrastructure. Raila Odinga, a Kenyan politician...
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) says investment flows to the region reached US$134 billion last year, up from US$88 billion in 2020....
Bloomberg | Ethiopia’s wheat output will jump 70 percent this year as the populous Horn of Africa nation ramps up production to shelter itself from supply...
AP | US President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the appointment of former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as a top adviser, filling a key White...
Reuters | Uganda has revealed that recent exploration surveys have shown it has gold ore deposits of about 31 million tons and it wants to attract...
Barbados is set to host the 11th Caribbean Urban Forum (CUF), the major annual regional event on urban planning, development, and land management from Wednesday June...
Bloomberg | African Rainbow Energy and Power (AREP), backed by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe, is looking to boost renewable power generation sevenfold to become one...
By Gregory Simpkins Many people who are not familiar with international affairs see situations as strictly black and white; villain and victim. While there is some...
By Sabrina Lynch The impact of COVID–19 caused immense financial distress for small businesses across the country, particularly African American entrepreneurs, who were one of the...
AP | The Bank of Jamaica is preparing to issue a nationwide digital currency for the first time in its history following recent approval from legislators....
AFP | More than 2,300 delegates from Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party converged on the capital Abuja ahead of a key primary election on...
AP | Haiti’s government has nominated a fifth judge to oversee the investigation into the killing of President Jovenel Moïse, magistrate Bernard Saint-Vil told The Associated...
Bloomberg | Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who’s running for president for a fifth time, drew ahead of rival candidate Deputy President William Ruto in an...
Haiti has named a candidate for the position of director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to replace the Dominica-born Carissa Etienne, who has served...
Reuters | Deaths on the African continent from COVID-19 are expected to fall by nearly 94 percent in 2022 compared to last year, modelling by the...
It’s called the “bachelor barrier” – the undergraduate degree requirement that many African American and other people of color don’t meet, which keeps them from a...
JIS | The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, is exploring opportunities for collaboration with tertiary institutions in the United States, particularly Historically Black Colleges...
Bloomberg | Vista Equity Partners is almost halfway to raising the US$20 billion target it set for its flagship fund, according to people familiar with the...
According to capital market data from the Nigerian Exchange dated May 20th, MTN Nigeria’s market capitalization stood at N5 trillion (about US$12 billion), making it one...
Government ministries in Barbados have been asked to work with the major players in the sector to come up with ways to shield Barbadians from rising...
AP | Gambia’s government is setting up a special prosecutor’s office to investigate for severe human rights violations and potentially charge former dictator Yahya Jammeh, who...
Bloomberg | For Black Americans, job prospects have improved since 2020. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the gains eked out over the...
Grammy Award-winning artist and entrepreneur Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has invested in Altro, a Black-led, free app helping users build credit through existing spending habits. TechCrunch reports...
AP | WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to be confirmed by the U.N. health agency’s member countries for a second five-year term on Tuesday....
Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley has been listed in the US publication, 2022 TIME100, as one of the most influential people in the world. In the...
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will vote for “a candidate of their choice” when Commonwealth leaders meet in Rwanda next month to choose the next Commonwealth secretary...
Reuters | Ghana has started a bulk purchase initiative to buy gold locally to raise the gold component of its reserves, Central Bank Governor Ernest Addison...
Reuters | A South African court on Tuesday granted another adjournment in former president Jacob Zuma’s arms deal corruption trial, as his legal team pushes for...
On May 13, Cornell Engineering presented billionaire and philanthropist Robert F. Smith with a Distinguished Alumni Award. During his acceptance speech, the founder and CEO of...
Reuters | Nigerian entrepreneur Mustapha Gajibo has been converting petrol mini-buses into electric vehicles at his workshop, but he is now going a step further to...
Legislators in Cuba’s parliament have declared that the Spanish speaking Communist island will observe May 25 as Africa Day to celebrate the roots and formation of...
Bloomberg | Kenya may be poised to have its first female deputy president after one of the leading contenders in this year’s general election picked a...
Reuters | Ghana is committed to managing its debt without assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said, expressing his confidence that...
Prime Minister of St. Kitts & Nevis, Timothy Harris, said on Tuesday he had asked Governor General, Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton, to dissolve parliament with immediate...
Bloomberg | Standard Bank Group Ltd. has named a female Black person to chair Africa’s biggest lender by assets for the first time. Nonkululeko Nyembezi has...