Africans would be more willing to travel if they were able to move freely within the continent, and if travel pain-points were addressed, a new study has revealed. Spending among African travellers could increase by 27 percent over the next year if they were able to move more freely within the continent, new research from Sabre Corporation, presented on Tuesday …

The end is near for one of the most contentious legacies of French colonialism in Africa. The eight-member nations of the West African Monetary Union have “unanimously” decided to end the policy of keeping their foreign reserves in the French Treasury President Patrice Talon of Benin has announced that the foreign reserves of the West African CFA franc, the currency …

The 2019 top performers on visa openness rank among the top countries for foreign direct investment in Africa, and benefit from strong levels of growth, including in tourism.

The retired professor of virology, who died after being admitted to the University College Hospital Ibadan, was an elder statesman who was courted by the media for his views on issues of national significance.

The competition was hosted by free-to-use photography app, Agora, and received over 130,000 submissions from 193 countries.

The Mastercard Foundation Centre is inviting educational technology innovators to apply for funding to grow their ventures while contributing to improving the quality of education in Africa. The deadline for submissions is..

An exhibition commemorating the life of South African freedom hero and global moral icon is currently showing in Berlin, Germany.

The Presidency said media reports of a soured relationship are originating from the minds and mouths of mischief makers, who are desperate for entertaining stories from the Aso Rock Villa with which to titillate the public.

Turkish students receive worse marks for the same performance, women with headscarves are less likely to receive invitations to a job interview, Naika Foroutan, a sociologist, criticizes the systematic discrimination against migrants. In Germany, according to the German-Iranian migration researcher Naika Foroutan, Muslims are the most disadvantaged. Even if many feel that they are tolerant and open, the reality looks …

A Ghanaian comedy film set the tone for this year’s Afrikamera, the festival that showcases current feature and documentary films from Africa in Berlin. Keteke, the debut production of Peter Kofi Sedufia, kicked the 5-day festival off on Thursday (7 November). The film, a witty look-back at the inadequate transport infrastructure of the early 1980s Ghana, was well received by …

Also on the list of accused is Jessica Edosomwan, Europe's most wanted woman. She’s accused of recruiting women in Nigeria for the sex trade in Lyon, Nimes and Montpellier.

The Kaduna Division of the Court of Appeal has nullified the election of the spokesman of the Senate, Senator Dayo Adeyeye.   The Appellate Court subsequently upheld the tribunal judgment which declared Biodun Olujimi, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, as winner of the Ekiti South Senatorial election held on February 23.   The Independent National Electoral Commission had …

  German-Ghanaian actress and author Dayan Kodua has written a children’s book. Odo tells the story, in German, of Odo, a 6-year-old girl in Ghana. The day Odo saw a black doll at her girlfriend’s birthday party changed her. She was so fascinated that she could no longer think of anything else other than of how to own her own …

‘AFRIKAMERA – Latest Cinema from Africa’ presents, from 7 – 11 November in Berlin, a selection of current feature and documentary films from Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The festival presents the latest productions by filmmakers from Lusophone Africa dealing not only with history but also issues such as gender, religion or urbanity and reflect cultural, social and political developments. In …

The movie was scheduled to be screened to voters for the International Feature Film category, formerly known as best foreign language film, on Wednesday.

A big and bold investment initiative will be launched at the annual general meeting of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Europe (NIDOE), taking place in Dublin on 7-9 November.

Africa’s agribusiness sector is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2030, so there is certainly cause for optimism. Consumer demand for food in Africa is growing at an unprecedented rate. But what is fuelling this growth? Mariam Yinusa and Edward Mabaya, Principal Economist and Manager, respectively, in the Agribusiness Development Division of the African Development Bank (AfDB), explain. In the …

Honorary consuls are designated by a foreign government to look after the affairs of its citizens.

The action has affected trade in the West African region, causing diplomatic irritations among member states of the trading bloc ECOWAS.

Tony O. Elumelu, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Heirs Holdings opened the “Ambition Africa” conference organised by the France Invest Africa Club in Paris, France, on 30 October. In his opening address, Elumelu urged French investors to look to Africa for long term investment opportunities. The French Minister of Economy …