Meet The Millionaires And Billionaires Suddenly Buying Tons Of Land In Africa

Oakland Institute just completed the most thorough investigative report on who’s buying land in Africa we’ve seen yet: “Hedge Funds Grabbing Land in Africa,” as BBC called it. As commodities prices rise and inflation picks up, the OI made the report public, they say, because the number of investors buying up land in Africa concerns them.

80 per cent Nigerians must know their rights by December – NHRC

The National Human Rights Commission says it will ensure that 80 per cent of Nigerians are aware of their fundamental human rights by the end of December, 2015. Its Executive Secretary, Bem Angwe, made the declaration on Monday in Abuja when he received Mike Omeri, the Director-General, National Orientation Agency, at the commission’s headquarters. “By

No need to panic: Africa is still rising… slowly

If Nigeria moves, the whole of West Africa moves with it – at least that’s how the saying goes. And now the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and others are predicting a major slowdown in the Nigerian economy – Africa’s largest. A drop of more than 50% in the oil price over the past year has

MEET THE SEVEN FIFA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

On Wednesday, the ad-hoc electoral committee of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) announced that it has received seven candidatures for its presidential election. The election is scheduled to take place at the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich on 26 February 2016. The candidates proposed are HRH Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, Musa Hassan Bility, Jérôme

DIFRET: WHY AFRICA NEEDS TO KEEP TELLING ‘REAL’ STORIES

Difret is the Sundance Festival award-winning movie that explores an intriguing legal case as it unfolds in Ethiopia in 1996. The case, which is based on true life events, revolves around 14–year–old Hirut, and a spirited lawyer, Meaza Ashefani, who decides to defend her in court for free, following charges levied against Hirut for murder.

Why I’m and Absolute Angry Black Woman

This moved me. The author of the writing below is Dominique Matti she is a writer from Philadelphia and this was originally posted on Those People. The author is also pictured in this post. Because when I was five, my kindergarten classmate told me I couldn’t be the princess in the game we were playing

MEET FOUR DYNAMIC YOUNG WOMEN WHO WILL CHANGE THE FUTURE OF AFRICA’S ECONOMY

Institut Choiseul for International Politics and Geoeconomics, the world renowned independent research center has released the second edition of top 100 young economic leaders in Africa. The ‘Choiseul 100, Africa 2015′ features successful entrepreneurs, budding business leaders, investors who will play a major role in the development of Africa in the nearest future. This list

Nigeria Gives MTN Two Weeks To Pay $5.2B Fine

Nigeria’s telecoms regulator on Friday gave MTN Group two weeks to pay a $5.2 billion fine imposed on Africa’s biggest mobile phone company for failure to cut off millions of users with unregistered SIM cards. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) imposed the penalty on Monday on MTN’s Nigeria unit, the group’s biggest market by subscribers,