African News

Plastic rice in Africa?

PV Staff For several months now, there have been persistent rumours that plastic or cosmetic rice is being exported to Africa from an Asian country (...)

| May 2017 | 3097 views

Science communication requires collaboration

Effective science communication requires more collaboration between researchers, communications officers and journalists. This was one of the key (...)

| May 2017 | 2993 views

Chaos and brutality in Liberian politics

Opinion By Dagbayonoh Kiah Nyanfore II, USA. The use of ethnicity in elections is not strange in Liberia’s political history. For instance, Liberia’s (...)

| April 2017 | 7642 views

Liberia: Misleading and biased reporting

Opinion By Dagbayonoh Kiah Nyanfore II, USA. In my recent article on the 2017 election in Liberia, I advised the Liberian media to be neutral and to (...)

| February 2017 | 3464 views

New AU chairperson not happy with tardiness

PV Staff The recently elected Chairperson of the African Union, Guinea’s President Alpha Conde (seen second from left in photo with the past and present (...)

| February 2017 | 3162 views

Ghana:UN University Report on crop yield

A study supported by the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) confirmed that access to credit and technology can (...)

| February 2017 | 4852 views

Former Gambian president granted immunity

Joint declaration by the Economic Community of West African States, the African Union and the United Nations on the political situation of the Islamic (...)

| January 2017 | 3044 views

ECOMOG and Democrazy by force

Opinion By Knana Kanthe, Quebec, Canada. If only the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone were serious in having a holistic prosecution of individuals (...)

| January 2017 | 3968 views

Liberian Presidential election, October 2017

Commentary Liberian presidential election October 2017: Preliminary observations and advice. By Dagbayonoh Kiah Nyanfore II, USA. Often when I (...)

| January 2017 | 6155 views

Musician of the Week: Burning Spear

Editor’s Note: The song in the clip below, Cry Blood Africa, by the Jamaican musical icon, Burning Spear (photo), is dedicated to the people of the tiny (...)

| January 2017 | 2762 views