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Mauritanian Dr Sidi Ould Tah emerged as the clear winner among a strong field vying to become next President of the African Development Bank. The election was held during the Bank’s AGM in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. He obtained 70% of the votes from both the regional and non-regional member countries… Read more »

The African Development Bank will select its next President on Thursday the 29th of May. The new leader will replace Dr Dr. Akinwumi Adesina who leaves after a decade at the post. Thebe Ikalafeng, founder and chairman – Brand Africa argues that the best candidate is Swazi Tshabalala. At a… Read more »

As May draws to a close and Africa commemorates Africa Day, the message this year cannot be missed: Africa’s future will be determined by how it treats its youth. It is time to stop speaking of young people as future leaders and start acknowledging them as current architects of the… Read more »

The developing world is still reeling from the sudden and wholesale dismantling of the world’s largest aid organisation the United States Agency for International Development. The swinging cuts loped off billions of dollars of support for some of the world’s most needy. At the same time, the world’s biggest philanthropic… Read more »

The international community must stop the flow of weapons to the parties in Sudan’s war, says former UN under-secretary-general Mongi Hamad. The Sudanese crisis, or rather the tragedy of a geographically strategic country, corroborates the idea that external interventions can destroy a state in a matter of weeks, displace populations,… Read more »

World Exclusive In Conversation Ebrahim Rasool, former South African ambassador to the US Now that the dust has settled following the astonishing decision in March by the Donald Trump administration to effectively expel the South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool over a speech he made, we are privileged to interview the… Read more »