Alice Gyamfi is the first person in her family to pursue formal education and earn a law degree. A native of Ghana, Gyamfi fought against all odds and passed the New York bar exam after graduating from Penn State Law in 2020.

A chain of reactions via social media was triggered by African leaders – past and present – as well as diplomats with respect to the historic election of Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as new Director-General of the World Trade Organization, WTO.

The UK has issued new travel measures to visitors from 17 African nations intending to travel to the island. Travelers will need to quarantine for 10 days in government-approved hotels and will have to pay for themselves during their stay. Travelers will foot a bill not less than $100 per night.

Royal Dutch Shell has initiated international arbitration against Nigeria over a dispute regarding an oil spill that took place five decades ago, according to a filing with the World Bank’s dispute settlement body.

Uganda's convicted former Lord’s Resistance Army Commander Dominic Ongwen is appealing the February 4 ruling of the International Criminal Court, which found him guilty of 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Nigeria’s president appealed for calm on Sunday following reports of intercommunal violence between ethnic groups at a market in the southwestern state of Oyo.

Rwanda has started its first phase of vaccination against COVID-19 with the limited 1,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine administered to high-risk groups, including frontline workers.

In a country where over three hundred people have reportedly disappeared in just over three months, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Saturday night urged the nation to “Ignore the talk of disappearances,” adding that such was intolerable under the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party.