[Concord] Senior officials from the Ministry of Information and Civic Education (MOICE) engaged members of the Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Information to discuss three flagship policies aimed at protecting filmmakers, establishing a national...

[Concord] On Friday, July 20, 2024, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in partnership with the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Government of Iceland, Haikal Foundation, and Aberdeen Women's Centre, officially handed over a state-of-the-art fis...

[The Point] About 100 academics have signed a letter of support denouncing death threats and harassment orchestrated against Africanist Press editor and Northwestern University-trained historian, Dr. Chernoh Alpha M. Bah.

[New Dawn] Monrovia -- Civil Society Organizations from the Mano River Region, specifically Liberia and Sierra Leone, reaffirm their commitment to combating sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).

[IPS] Freetown & Nairobi -- "A person shall not contract marriage with a child," Sierra Leone's landmark Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2024 says, outlawing, in no uncertain terms, child marriage, giving consent to and attempted child mar...

Things We Carry on the Sea By Wang Ping We carry tears in our eyes: good-bye father, good-bye mother We carry soil in small bags: may home never fade in our hearts We carry names, stories, memories of our villages, fields, boats We carry scars ...

By Shai Reshef, Founder and President at University of the People When remote learning became more widespread during the pandemic, many people saw it as a temporary measure. However, remote and online learning options can be really beneficial for ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF)'s Board of Directors appointed Thibaut Bruttin (photo) as the NGO's director general during a meeting on 9 July. Bruttin succeeds Christophe Deloire, who died on 8 June 2024 and had led RSF for 12 years. Bruttin seeks...

Patrick Nnaemeka Okorie, better known by his stage name as Patoranking, has been appointed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Africa as a Regional Goodwill Ambassador. For two years, Patoranking will primarily champion youth inno...

Esther Kimani, a 2022 YouthADAPT winner, received the prestigious 2024 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation from the Royal Academy of Engineering on June 13 in Nairobi, Kenya. YouthADAPT is sponsored by the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org)...