Read Time: 2 minutesURGENT #Burkina – Attempted coup d’etat, “a Lieutenant- Colonel and several other soldiers…
Category: AFRICA
THE UN PEACE PROCESS IN WESTERN SAHARA: CURRENT SITUATION AND THE WAY FORWARD
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Mali opposition rejects election delay in new transition plan
Read Time: 2 minutesCoalition representing several political parties opposes five-year proposed extension to democratic transition period…
REUTERS -Niger police seize more than 200 kg of cocaine from mayor’s truck
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Why I had no choice but to spurn Tony Blair Desmond Tutu
Read Time: 3 minutesI couldn’t sit with someone who justified the invasion of Iraq with a…
Kenya and South African airlines to merge into a Pan-African airline – Uhuru Kenyatta
Read Time: < 1 minuteKenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta has announced that, the national airline of his…
Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt constitute half of Africa’s $2.7trn economy
Read Time: 2 minutesIN 2021, the economies of three countries – Nigeria, South Africa, and Egypt…
Tanzania signs $1.9bn railway contract with Turkish firm
Read Time: < 1 minuteTANZANIA on Tuesday signed a contract with Turkish firm Yapi Merkezi to…
South Africa court halts Shell seismic survey plan
Read Time: 2 minutesEnvironmentalists hailed the court’s decision to suspend the scheme, which entails using seismic…
Ethiopia unhappy as US ends its duty-free access
Read Time: 2 minutesThe US stopped Ethiopia’s eligibility for the trade benefits despite pleas by a…
In Africa, rescuing the languages that western tech ignores
Read Time: 4 minutesAmerican tech giants don’t have a great track record of making their language…
God Is Not a Christian: By Desmond Tutu, Contributor
Read Time: 4 minutesGod Is Not a ChristianBy Desmond Tutu, ContributorArchbishop Emeritus of Cape Town06/01/2011 09:58pm…
$500 million spent annually to keep piracy at bay in the Gulf of Guinea
Read Time: 3 minutesFinancial sums lost through ransoms are a small share of the total costs…
Mali launches forum on return to civil rule
Read Time: 2 minutesMALI’S military-dominated government on Monday launched a four-day national forum on returning the…
Desmond Tutu: South Africa anti-apartheid hero dies aged 90
Read Time: 4 minutesArchbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate who helped end apartheid in…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FMR. PRESIDENT OF LA COTE D’VOIRE H.E. LAURENT GBAGBO
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Burkina Faso: Prime Minister and cabinet resign from office
Read Time: 7 minutesThe Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Paul Kaba Thieba, has resigned from office…
Ivory Coast’s Cashew Processors Driven Into Bankruptcy By Asian Competition
Read Time: 2 minutesA worker checks the cashew nut bags at a warehouse, amid the global…
The French, the UN and the Ivory Coast
Read Time: 32 minutesWith the violent overthrow of democratically elected President Gbagbo, Ivory Coast has reverted…
GBAGBO IN TOWN
Read Time: 2 minutesFormer President of La Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo arrives in Accra this morning…
and The Pandemic’s True Death Toll
Read Time: 3 minutesDear Editor, Re: Africa and The Pandemic’s True Death Toll I read with…
THE ROLE OF EDUCATION UNDER CAPITALISM
Read Time: 6 minutesSISI AFRIKA There were things I did when I was a teacher I…
Women and Pan-Africanism
Read Time: 28 minutesHakim Adi https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.559 Published online: 23 May 2019 Summary Women played a central role…
Uphold the Tradition of Always Standing Together And Jointly Build a China-Africa Community With a Shared Future in the New Era
Read Time: 6 minutesKeynote Speech by H.E. Xi Jinping President of the People’s Republic of China…
Making sense of Wole Soyinka’s difficult and brilliant new novel
Read Time: 7 minutesA new novel by celebrated Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka – Chronicles from the Land of…
GLOBALink | Connecting Africa to the world
Read Time: < 1 minuteAs the saying goes, “Access to roads will enable all sectors of…
Joint Communiqué on the occasion of the State Visit of HE Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya, to South Africa, from 22nd-24th November, 2021
Read Time: 8 minutesJoint Communiqué on the occasion of the State Visit of HE Uhuru Kenyatta,…
RICH APPETITES: HOW BIG PHILANTHROPY IS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF FOOD IN AFRICA
Read Time: 2 minutesA short film series https://www.richappetitesfilm.com/ If you haven’t watched it yet, make sure…
GLOBAL PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT: STATEMENT ON THE LATE CAPTAIN KOJO TSIKATA
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Polisario chief announces ‘escalation’ in W.Sahara
Read Time: 2 minutesThe head of the Western Sahara independence movement, the Polisario Front, said on…
SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FOR MISS SA PAGEANT
Read Time: 2 minutesMEDIA STATEMENTSunday, 14 November 2021 The South African government withdraws its support and…
Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia and 30 others are on the World Bank’s heavily indebted poor countries’ list
Read Time: 2 minutesPoorest countries in Africa in 2021 The heavily indebted poor countries’ list is…
SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FOR MISS SA PAGEANT
Read Time: 2 minutesMEDIA STATEMENTSunday, 14 November 2021 The South African government withdraws its support and…
EFF STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF APARTHIED PRESIDENT F.W.DE KLERK
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Rise and fall of Ethiopia’s TPLF – from rebels to rulers and back
Read Time: 5 minutesBloody offensive aims to eliminate Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which dominated for nearly…