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Jan 15, 2025 | 
voaafrica.com | Chinedu Offor
The Nigeria-America Chamber of Commerce has appealed to the incoming Trump administration to renew the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA, and the Presidents Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, or PEPFA. President of the chamber Sheriff Balogun told VOA’s Chinedu Offor, these policies will boost regional economic growth.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
voaafrica.com | Chinedu Offor
The URL has been copied to your clipboardThe code has been copied to your clipboard. The UN child protection agency UNICEF is warning that child abuse is worsening for thousands of children and women in conflict ravaged areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ramatou Toure, UNICEF’S DRC Chief of Child Protection, told VOA’s Chinedu Offor, the year is beginning on a grim note
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Chinedu Offor
Anxiety is mounting in Northern Nigeria, including neighboring nations of Chad and Niger, following the emergence of a new lethal terror group known as Lakurawa. Security officials said the group is offering huge sign- on bonuses to youths, resulting in thousands of new recruits. Dr. Mohammed Sani Abubakar, a research fellow at the Department of Military Studies at the University of Abuja told me Nigerian security agencies ignored actionable intelligence to confront the new threat
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Chinedu Offor
The United Nations Children’s Fund says more deaths are being recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi following the outbreak of mpox. Doctor Douglas Noble is UNICEF’s Associate Director Health for Emergency Preparedness and Response. He tells VOA’s Chinedu Offor that more work needs to be done to break community transmission and save lives
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Carol Van Dam |Chinedu Offor |Douglas Mpuga
U.S. presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump clash over difference in policies during the 2024 presidential debate that will witness both leaders attempting to attract voters. In our special VOA programming, analysts speak on the debate and how it impacts the outcome of the 2024 race to the White House.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Chinedu Offor
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it is facing a fresh wave of Internally Displaced Persons, or IDPs, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, complicating efforts to provide aid and mitigate the spread of the mpox disease. Grant Leity, a Country Representative who just returned from Goma and Ituri provinces, told VOA’s Chinedu Offor that it is s a race against time.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Chinedu Offor
Alarming rates of violence, particularly sexual violence, in and around displacement camps near North Kivu’s capital in Democratic Republic of Congo remain high, according to the aid group, Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (or MSF). It says since 2022, more than a million people have fled the conflict in North Kivu. Camille Niel, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Goma, told VOA’s Chinedu Offor that mortality and morbidity are on the increase
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Chinedu Offor
The Nigeria Customs Service have signed a memorandum of understanding with China with another pact imminent with Turkey and India to curb the illicit flow of arms, drugs and fake goods into the country. This, as security agencies intensify a probe on the importation of large consignments of arms through the ports. Chief Superintendent Abdullahi Aliyu Maiwada is spokesman for the Nigeria Customs Service. He told VOA’s Chinedu Offor that the lives of Nigerian citizens are at stake
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Chinedu Offor
Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of the factional leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (or Tripple C). Jameson Temba and dozens of his supporters were arrested last week over an alleged unsanctioned meeting. Amnesty deputy regional director Khanyo Farise says the group is also demanding a probe into reports that the detainees were tortured while in custody. The government denies the charge.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Chinedu Offor
The United Nations Security Council has demanded a halt to the siege of Sudan’s al-Fashir city by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and an immediate end to fighting. This, as the UN described the devastation as the largest displacement of a population in the world. David Shinn is professor of African Studies at the George Washington University. He told VOA’s Chinedu Offor that the prospects for an immediate end to the conflict are dim because the world is not paying enough attention.
