By Koffi M KouakouBurkina Faso is yet again rocked by a military coup. In less than a year after he ousted former elected president Roche Kabore, lieutenant colonel ...
Picture: Jerome Delay/AP – On Saturday March 21, in the early days of the pandemic, Prince, a Nigerian money changer, is one of very few people wearing a mask in ...
Picture: REUTERS/Saliou Samb/File – Mist shrouds the Simandou mountains in Beyla, Guinea. Don’t buy the misguided view that Africa doesn’t matter. It does, the writer ...
Picture: GCIS - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is received by South Africa’s Ambassador Nomaindia Mfeketo to the US upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews ...
OPINION: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to Washington must fully reflect such an African agenda, not a self-serving nor a coercive one, writes Koffi M Kouakou. ...
Picture: Simon Dawson/BloombergBy Koffi M. Kouakou“He who has gold makes all the rules,” says the old Chinese proverb. The yellow metal still holds a great deal ...
Picture: Andrew Harnik / AFP – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by South Africa's International Relations and Co-operation Minister Naledi Pandor ...
OPINION: The silent confusion about the future of e-tolls needs no clarity but scrapping it all together to free economic mobility, writes Koffi Kouakou.
Picture: Bongiwe Mchunu/African News Agency (ANA) - The silent confusion about the future of the e-tolls needs no clarity but scrapping it all together to free economic ...
Picture: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg - A worker uses a hammer and a letter punch to engrave gold bars with identifying marks at the Kibali gold mine operated by Randgold ...
Picture: Etienne Creux/African News Agency (ANA) - The South African passport, with its uniqueness, has among others an unusual feature – French on its cover. The ...
OPINION: Imposed in January, after the military seized power last year and announced a four-year delay in the transition to an elected civilian rule, the sanctions ...
OPINION: Once a golden goose, Africa is becoming an albatross and, at worst, a slow noose black mamba around the neck of France, writes Koffi Kouakou.