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Africa World 

ECOWAS suspends Guinea, demands Alpha Conde’s release

Elwin Mandowa, , , , ,
– – Guinea has been suspended by regional bloc ECOWAS for recent coup carried out by soldiers. The West African nation can no longer participate in ECOWAS activities until it returns to constitutional rule. ECOWAS leaders have also demanded the immediate and unconditional release of ousted President Alpha Conde. At the end of their extraordinary summit held by video conference,… Read More
Africa Business World 

ICRISAT awarded 2021 Africa Food Prize

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– – The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has been awarded the 2021 Africa Food Prize, for work that has improved food security across 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT, a CGIAR Research Center, is a non-profit, non-political public international research organization that conducts agricultural research for development in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa with a wide… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

When Will The Butcher Of Aso Rock Arrest Gumi? By Bayo Oluwasanmi

Elwin Mandowa,
Ahmad Abubakar Gumi Islamic cleric, scholar, is chief judge of the Shariah Court of Appeal in Northern Nigeria. He is the current mufti and mufassir at the Kaduna central mosque Sultan Bello. More importantly, he is The Butcher of Aso Rock Muhammadu Buhari’s Terrorism Liaison Officer (TLO).  Gumi as the president’s TLO, his powers and duties are wide ranging. He’s… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

How and Why Buhari Regime “Killed” Olajide Sowore By SKC Ogbonnia

Elwin Mandowa,
It is a rude awaking to learn the coldblooded murder of Felix Olajide Sowore, the younger brother of Omoyele Sowore, the Nigeria’s frontline democracy activist, anticorruption crusader, and the presidential candidate in the 2019 elections. This dimension of terrorism under President Muhammadu Buhari is a redux to the Abacha regime where families of political opponents were targeted at will.   To… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank, partners unveil initiative to secure climate-resilient water and sanitation services in five drought-prone countries

Elwin Mandowa,
The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Nordic Development Fund and the Government of Denmark will roll-out a program to strengthen access to climate-resilient water and sanitation resources in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger and Somalia. The initiative is expected to strengthen recovery in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The new initiative will enhance the sustainability of water… Read More
Africa Investments 

After years of witnessing fights over water, a family’s life is transformed in a refugee camp in Zimbabwe

Elwin Mandowa,
For years, Josephine Mbayo watched as fights broke out in her community over water. “There was only one hand pump for all the sections that everyone queued at to get water from as early as 4am,” says the 48-year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who lives in the Tongogara Refugee Camp in a semi-arid part of Zimbabwe. She… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

The President’s Grazing Routes By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN

Elwin Mandowa,
Very recently, President Muhammadu Buhari shocked the entire nation when he announced that he had discovered 368 grazing routes across the country. It was also reported that the President will proceed to take over these grazing routes, demarcate them appropriately and ultimately develop them for the use of herders and their cattle. This development came a few months after the… Read More
OP-ED Opinions 

Guinea: Goodbye Conde, Welcome ‘Change’! By Ozodinukwe Okenwa

Elwin Mandowa,
There is something absolutely ‘special’ about Guinea, a poor Francophone country in West Africa. Guineans are proud of their ancestral and cultural heritage. Their first President, nay founding father of the nation, the late Ahmed Sekou Toure, was a strongman who looked imperialism and neo-colonialism of France in the face and said a resoundingly historic ‘No’. Toure told the French… Read More
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