"The volume of financial fraud stemming from West Africa is alarming and increasing," said Isaac Oginni, director of Interpol's Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre.
The 45th Durban Film Festival fittingly kicks off this year on Nelson Mandela Intl. Day, a worldwide celebration of South Africa’s first Black president, whose tireless efforts to bring an end to apartheid led to the country’s first…
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the timbuktoo Africa Innovation Foundation have launched the Fintech timbuktoo Hub in Lagos, Nigeria, located at the UNDP Innovation Center. The Fintech Hub will serve as a nexus for…
Former US Congress member Jason Altmire has raised concern as the Republican Party moves towards isolationism and a retreat by the US in extending economic support to its African allies.
In Maryland, the Harford County Board of Education voted unanimously early Tuesday to restore an Advanced Placement course on African American studies.
LULA, a South African-born mobility startup for office workers, has acquired the South African subsidiary of Zeelo, a US-born staff bus-sharing startup, following the latter's exit from the region.
The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) Artificial Intelligence Preparedness Index reveals that only seven African countries have preparedness indices of 0.4 or more. South Africa leads the continent with a score of 0.5, while the…
….AFNIS Summit sets the stage for a new era of sustainable development, and mineral resource control in Africa TOYIN ADEBAYO, ABUJA Stiffer measures to curtail raw mineral exports and enhance value addition dominated discussions among…
LAGOS-Nigerian Afrobeat sensation, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, known as Wizkid has received an impressive seven nominations in various categories at the prestigious Africa Arts Entertainments Awards (AAEA). The Africa Arts Entertainments…
In a global operation targeting West African organized crime groups across five continents, police arrested 300 people, seized $3 million and blocked 720 bank accounts, Interpol said Tuesday.
Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Interpol has announced the outcome of a global operation targeting West African organized crime groups across five continents in 21 countries. The agency said Tuesday that police arrested 300 people,…
The hearing could lead to Zuma, 82, being expelled from the ANC, which he joined in the late 1950s when it was a liberation movement fighting against the apartheid system of white minority rule.
By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh In this interview, Dr Pradeep S. Mehta, Secretary General of the Jaipur-based Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) International, with centres in Accra, Nairobi, Lusaka, Geneva, Washington DC, Hanoi and New Delhi,…