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Fombah Kanneh poses with some of the children he is helping with his startup Gift 2 Change. (Courtesy of Fombah Kanneh) Fombah Kanneh grew up in a makeshift house in the slums of Monrovia, Liberia, during the country’s civil war. As in many other cities...

More than 300 global and African thought leaders and youth agripreneurs will come together for The MasterCard Foundation’s second Young Africa Works Summit on February 16-17 in Kigali, Rwanda. The event will spark new thinking on how Africa’s growing...

(By Samuel Akpobome Orovwuje) “In recent years, clandestine movement of people from Africa to Europe is essentially through trafficking and smuggling. Most illegal migrants borrow money from friends and family to pay smugglers to facilitate their...

Photo: AP THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary August 3, 2016 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT THE YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS INITIATIVE TOWN HALL Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, D.C. 3:28 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much! (Applause.) Thank...

King Fahd Palace Hotel Dakar, Senegal 6:23 P.M. GMT MR. CARNEY: Good evening, everyone. Thanks for being here. I hope you’ve had a useful and enjoyable day. Today we have a special guest, in addition to Ben Rhodes, with whom you&rsquo...