Global streaming service Netflix set its eyes a few years ago on Nigeria’s film industry, better known as Nollywood. Distribution of Nigerian movies on Netflix started around 2015. At the time the American giant bought the rights of blockbusters such as...
South Sudan is arguably the most fragile state in the world. Lacking an institutional legacy at its creation in 2011, political, security, economic, and social indicators have all deteriorated amid civil conflict. As state legitimacy has eroded, the number of armed...
Talk of gender mainstreaming – the assessing of all policies, programmes, laws and interventions on the basis of their impact on both men and women at all levels – often attracts sceptical criticism. One of the most significant challenges the...
(SomalilandPress)-How would you feel if a man responsible for the rape, torture and murder of thousands of people was living freely in your community? That's right -- parking next to you at Costco, sitting next to you at the...
Regardless of who wins the Nobel Peace Prize this year, Denis Mukwege deserves the award for his important work in Congo. Mukwege is a Congolese physician who heals broken bodies and restores dignity to survivors of sexualized violence at Panzi...
PRESS RELEASE Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA) condemns the killing and public dragging of Anglophones in the Francophone - Bangourain - West Region Demands on the government to immediately work with all parties to have a dialogue...
WorldRemit to kickstart uptake of Digital Money Transfers to Cameroon Digital remittance service completes series of strategic deals with Cameroon partners DOUALA, Cameroon, November 3, 2016/ -- Leading remittance service WorldRemit (Worldremit.com/en/Cameroon) is set to accelerate adoption of digital money transfers...
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit reveals a $1.5 billion money laundering plot, bribery, theft and fraud in paradise: “It’s like something from a James Bond film.” Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has exposed massive corruption at the top of the Maldives government,...
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) -- The Republic of Yemen has sent four-member delegation consisting of diplomats and investors to Somaliland on Sunday ahead of the opening of diplomatic office by Yemen in Hargeisa. According to sources close to the government, the office...
Day after day Sudanese are taking to the streets to protest against the rule of Omar al-Bashir. The president, who himself seized power in 1989 when he led a coup, is facing the most serious challenge in his three decades in power....