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President Paul Kagame hosted the Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa (NEISA) at the Kigali Convention Centre from May 18 to 22

Nuclear energy is a must

Africa must embrace nuclear energy to power economic growth and meet Agenda 2063 goals

The AU’s theme for 2025 is Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

An open letter to African Union Commission chairperson candidates

The AU’s theme for 2025 is Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations

Fela Kuti

Forecasting Africa’s 2025: Sound of change echoes Fela’s rebellion and Masekela’s vision

Africa cannot afford leaders disconnected from the demands of its people, the global political economy and the continent’s emerging role in world affairs

The GGA team at GGA’s 10th anniversary celebrations.

GGA 10 Year Celebration

The next GGA milestone will hopefully be marked by wins against corruption

Waiting: Refugees from many countries including those in Africa sit near the Medyka pedestrian border crossing with Poland to flee the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

African governments scramble to help its citizens in Ukraine

Africans, among them South Africans, Nigerians, Ghanains, Congolese and Ivorians, are trying to flee into Poland and other countries neighbouring Ukraine

A general partial view of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro at sunrise from Kimana Sanctuary in Kimana, Kenya, on March 3, 2021. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate crisis causes meltdown of Africa’s three mountain glaciers

Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori mountains are all retreating faster than the global mean

Photo: File

What’s the fuss about Israel’s observer status at the AU?

Nongovernmental organisations applying for observer status at the African Union are subjected to intense scrutiny but a non-African state merely needs the approval of the AU…

Palestinian supporters wave flags as they take part in a counter demonstration outside the venue where Israel supporters gather in an event organised by the South Africa Zionist Federation in Johannesburg, on May 23, 2021. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

South Africa appalled that Israel given AU observer status

The international relations department has released a statement condemning the decision

The Mail & Guardian previously reported that Mkhize is understood to be preparing to resign from office over the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe into the irregular awarding of a R150-million Covid-19 communications tender to his long-term associates. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Two women punted as frontrunners to replace Mkhize

Ramaphosa is said to be considering appointing former Gauteng health MEC Dr Gwen Ramokgopa or Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the minister of health

Police officers face off with protesters on the I-85 (Interstate 85) during protests in the early hours of September 21, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The protests began last night, following the fatal shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott by a police officer at an apartment complex near UNC Charlotte. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

We need an outpouring of outrage about Africans killed by security forces

As Africa mourns George Floyd, we must look in the mirror and address police brutality on our own continent

The fate of all African countries is bound together. We prosper or suffer sustained underdevelopment together. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)

Tawana Kupe: It takes a continent to raise the Africa we want

Collaborating with other universities will assist in dealing with diseases and other social issues that know no borders

It is difficult for residents of informal settlements to follow guidelines to prevent Covid-19 transmission, such as hand-washing, in the absence of access to water. It is governments’ responsibility to provide these basic services. (Lucky Tshuma)

Covid-19 and the call for solidarity: Challenges for informal settlements

It is difficult for residents of informal settlements to follow guidelines to prevent Covid-19 transmission, such as hand-washing, in the absence of access to water. It is…

South Sudan’s international airport has implemented more rigorous health screenings after the World Health Organisation declared the novel coronavirus a global health emergency on January 30, 2020. (Alex McBride/AFP)

In the face of the pandemic, human rights are a necessity

The Covid-19 pandemic is throwing the poor governance of some African countries into sharp relief

The Chairperson of the African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamat speaks during a briefing to the press, during the visit of the President of the European Commission in Addis Ababa, on December 7, 2019. (Eduardo Soteras/AFP)

Exclusive: A ‘mafia-style’ cartel is running the African Union, claim staff

In a leaked memo, AU staff claim that commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat is destroying the continental body

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) meets the head of Sudan’s Transitional Military Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan Abdelrahman. (Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

The AU’s role in brokering Sudan deal offers lessons for the future

The African Union’s role in Sudan’s political crisis proves that it’s legal framework is strong enough to resolve regional disputes

Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki (right) laughs with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during the inauguration ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2018. (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

How the glow of the historic accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea has faded

A year ago Eritreans could hardly contain their joy as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed touched down in Asmara. The city had seen nothing like it in a generation that knew war…

Dozens of senior African Union Commission officials have been implicated in an internal inquiry into sexual harassment, gender discrimination, fraud, nepotism and abuse of power. (Ashraf Shazly/AFP)

AU ‘covering up’ perpetrators’ abuse

An internal inquiry has implicated senior officials in sexual harassment, nepotism and fraud, but there have been no repercussions for the accused

South Sudan’s rebels with weapons travel in a truck in a rebel-controlled territory in Jonglei State. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

South Sudan rivals meet in bid to salvage stalled peace deal

An August 2015 peace deal collapsed almost a year after it was signed and the conflict spread, drawing in more groups around the country

The African Union Commission is undergoing a paradigm shift towards the recognition and support of the continent’s youth in order to harness their potential

​Launch of the ‘1 Million by 2021 Initiative’ at the Pan African Youth Forum

Developing the youth is the African Union Commission’s top priority

The UN backs a government of national accord in the capital Tripoli, while a rival administration in the east is supported by Khalifa Haftar and his self-styled Libyan National Army. (Reuters/Philippe Wojazer)

African Union to host Libya ‘reconciliation’ conference

Libya has been mired in chaos since the 2011 ousting of Muammar Gaddafi and a series of international efforts have so far failed to unite the country