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Category: AFRICA
AU cannot preserve its unity without full compliance with its Constitutive Act
Read Time: 2 minutesAddis Ababa, 6 February 2022 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary General…
Kenya pushes Western Sahara issue back on AU agenda
Read Time: 4 minutesA man poses with a Western Saharan flag as he takes part in…
The foundation of global capitalism.
Read Time: 2 minutesThis Black History Month we remember, Samora Machel, revolutionary socialist independence leader against…
Time For A French Reality Check In Africa
Read Time: 4 minutesAgainst the background of the recent military takeover in Mali and Burkina-Faso and…
Burkina Faso coup: latest sign of a rise in the ballot box being traded for bullets
Read Time: 4 minutesWhen news broke that soldiers had mutinied in Burkina Faso, it was hardly…
Chart of the week: Three decades of coups in Africa
Read Time: 2 minutesChart of the week: Three decades of coups in Africa 15 current world…
How Amílcar Cabral shaped Paulo Freire’s pedagogy
Read Time: 4 minutesFrantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian…
African politics: Return of the military, By Jibrin Ibrahim
Read Time: 5 minutesThe time has come for Africans to reopen the debate on the best…
Check out the Profile of soldier who led Burkina Faso coup: Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
Read Time: 2 minutesOften times when a coup is announced, it is the end of an…
Burkina Faso Military Says It Has Seized Power And Overthrown President Roch Kaboré
Read Time: < 1 minuteThe military in Burkina Faso says it has seized power and overthrown President Roch Kaboré.…
Beyond the Pandemic: Trade and Investment Prospects in Africa
Read Time: 3 minutesWritten by Ingrid Asensio Ramos The COVID-19 pandemic, which swept across the globe…
Coup underway in Burkina Faso, president detained by military – RFI
Read Time: 2 minutesMutinous soldiers have seized power in Burkina Faso President Kabore has been arrested…
BIDEN’S DANGEROUS REFUSAL TO REVERSE TRUMP’S WESTERN SAHARA POLICY
Read Time: 6 minutesIn his final weeks in office, President Donald Trump stunned the international community…
New sanctions risk plunging the people of Mali further into a humanitarian crisis
Read Time: 3 minutesNew sanctions against Mali could have a devastating impact on the country, where…
Covid kills poor as rich get richer – report
Read Time: 2 minutesOxfam says that the poor have died from vaccine inequality and a lack…
France backs regional sanctions against Mali as junta calls for protests
Read Time: 2 minutesThe Malian leader of a coup last August, Col. Assimi Goita, who has…
Hundreds rally in Bamako in support of Mali opposition movement
Read Time: 3 minutesSupporters of Mali’s M5 opposition movement staged a rally on Friday, with the…
Sierra Leone: Long awaited White Paper on Constitutional Review released
Read Time: 4 minutesThe Sierra Leone government has released the much-anticipated White Paper on the review…
Burkina – Attempted coup d’etat, “a Lieutenant- Colonel and several other soldiers arrested”…
Read Time: 2 minutesURGENT #Burkina – Attempted coup d’etat, “a Lieutenant- Colonel and several other soldiers…
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
Read Time: < 1 minuteREUTERS – Niger police seize more than 200 kg of cocaine from…
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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