Dr Ugo Aniga of the Department of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State, says Africans can only achieve full democracy when its leaders jettison foreign aid.
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The Sahara Group says Africa requires about 2.64 trillion dollars, roughly the size of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), to rely on renewable energy sources for electricity generation by 2050.
Ten molecular scientists from six African countries are targeting a quantum leap in nutrition, climate resiliency and sustainability in the continent’s food systems for crops of nutritional and economic value, including orphan crops.
Africa is now realising its potential and capacity, with the formerly side-lined continent harnessing its demographic dividend and natural resources and becoming an economic, political, and social powerhouse, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Wednesday.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Dr Akinwuni Adesina, says corruption is not an African issue.
Some stakeholders have emphasised on the need for Africa to tackle debt issues to enable the continent fix its increasing climate issues.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, said that African leaders must find home-grown solutions to the myriads of problems confronting the continent.
At its Summit in India recently, the G20 bloc admitted the African Union (AU) as one of its members, making it of two continental bodies (the other being the European Union) to be admitted into this body.
The World Bank says rising instability, weak growth in the region’s largest economies, and lingering uncertainty in the global economy are dragging down growth prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
The African Development Bank (AfDB), has reiterated the need for an integrated approach to address housing deficit in Nigeria and the African continent.