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If only folks will let go of that rather FRIGHTENING COLD HEART-THROBBING HYPOCRISY and be angry enough to want to CHANGE the status quo! If only folks would be GROWN-UP enough and face the harsh reality of the sorrowful mess that Africa has intentionally plunged itself into and want to say ENOUGH IS INDEED ENOUGH, and get to work to stop the backwardness on the #AfricanContinent, there'd be no time left to sulk about the stinking gibberish spewed by a silly dumb leader in another continent - because the facts will indicate otherwise.

Africa is projected to have over 840 million youth by 2050 with the continent having the youngest population on earth.

Today, at the 30th African Union Heads of State Summit, the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) added neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) to its annual scorecard on disease progress. The scorecard is personally reviewed by African heads of state every year, putting NTDs alongside malaria and maternal and child health as top health priorities for the continent.

Leaders from four African countries on Wednesday shared their vision for an integrated and borderless Africa that would foster economic growth and development.

The African Union (AU) will cease to recognise Yahya Jammeh as Gambia's president as of January 19, when his mandate expires, the organisation's Peace and Security Council said on Friday.

Two deadly car bombs exploded in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, two weeks after a huge truck bomb killed hundreds of civilians in the city.

Kenya’s electoral commission has called for patience and calm as it tallies the results of Thursday's re-run presidential election. However, some analysts already fear that the low turnout — just 35 percent compared to nearly 80 percent in the previous poll in August — may undercut the credibility of the results.

Written By Nana Prof. OseiDarkwa - Africa as a continent continues to be poor and suffers from all the social, economic, and political pathologies that so often accompany poverty. The marks of poverty and its consequences are everywhere, especially in rural Africa, where farms fail to produce enough to feed the farmer and his family, and in the urban slums, where hawkers risk their limbs to sell to speeding motorists. There is urban poverty and rural poverty in Africa, and you cannot be in an African city or a village and escape the marks of that poverty: hunger, illness, illiteracy, and idleness.

Undaunted by a dangerous journey over thousands of miles, people fleeing economic hardship and human rights abuses in African countries are coming to the U.S.-Mexico border in unprecedented numbers, surprising Border Patrol agents more accustomed to Spanish-speaking migrants.

Africa’s leadership stories have been one amusing yet disturbing comedy after the other. From Mobutu to Eyadema, from Yahya Jammeh to the recently deposed Al-Bashir, a very interesting pattern of leadership is developing that is easy to see, but also not very obvious to a casual observer.

The following is the full statement by the President of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, delivered at the Annual Meetings of the Bank in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on June 12, 2019.

The United States plans to stop issuing visas to citizens from four countries that it says aren’t accepting deported citizens.