The governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have taken a decisive step towards economic integration with the creation of the Confederal Bank for Investment and Development, with an initial capital of 500 billion CFA francs (about 820 billion CFA francs), which will...
In recent years, the foreign population has played a decisive role in the evolution of the Spanish labour market. According to an analysis published by the Bank of Spain, employment growth since 2019 has been mostly concentrated in foreign...
In a hopeful turn for the country's future, many Burkina Faso professionals living abroad - including scientists, doctors and engineers - are returning to their homeland. This phenomenon marks a turning point for the country...
The President of Namibia, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, paid a two-day working visit to Tanzania, where she was received with honours by President Samia Suluhu Hassan. The agenda included high-level meetings in which the two leaders discussed the...
Everything is getting tangled up and contributing to the impression that we are immersed in a negative spiral with no possibility of return, which is beyond us; fuel for the incombustibles of xenophobia, racism...
The legendary Senegalese musician Youssou Ndour staged an emotional artistic reunion with Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new African gallery in New York. The evening, charged with symbolism and cultural pride, was...
On 28 May, the Théâtre National Daniel Sorano in Dakar was the venue for the closing ceremony of the second edition of the Tierra Firme programme. The ceremony brought together institutional authorities, youth employment specialists and the protagonists of the programme....
In Inhambane Bay, Mozambique, the Khessani Cooperative is promoting a pioneering project that combines environmental conservation, economic development and gender equity. Under the leadership of the Women for Africa Foundation, in collaboration with Duna Lodge and with the support of...
The Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is 50 years old and, possibly, it is not at its best. Internal tensions, a lack of concrete objectives, obstacles to economic unity and the recent departure of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso...
The world of literature bids farewell to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, one of the great thinkers and storytellers of the 20th and 21st century. A Kenyan writer born in 1938, he dedicated his work to questioning the legacies of colonialism and reclaiming the...