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2020 World Press Freedom Day Celebration

The 2020 World Press Free­dom Day is on Sat­ur­day, May 3. This day is man­dat­ed by UNESCO (Unit­ed Nations Edu­ca­tion­al, Sci­en­tif­ic and Cul­tur­al Orga­ni­za­tion) as a day to put press free­dom issues into focus — to edu­cate our com­mu­ni­ties about the impor­tant con­tri­bu­tion that free and inde­pen­dent media plays in soci­ety.  As an orga­ni­za­tion, we’ve had…

Beware Of Africa Misinformation, Says Africa Agenda Director

Dur­ing the 36th Annu­al Black World Con­fer­ence at Met­ro­pol­i­tan State Uni­ver­si­ty of Den­ver on Feb­ru­ary 13, Africa Agen­da founder George Bamu spoke about African Pol­i­tics and the West­ern Media. It’s a sub­ject that the orga­ni­za­tion and its lead­ers hold near and dear to heart. Africa Agen­da, a U.S. 501c (3) non-prof­it was found­ed with a mission…

Intense Coverage Follows Delayed Polls in Nigeria

    Pres­i­den­tial and par­lia­men­tary elec­tions sched­uled for Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 16 in Nige­ria were sud­den­ly post­poned by the Inde­pen­dent Nation­al Elec­tions Com­mis­sion (INEC) just hours before the polls were due to open. The new date for the elec­tion is now Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 23. Also post­poned by a week is the March 2 guber­na­to­r­i­al elec­tions, now scheduled…

Spotlight! – This Week – 1/1/19 – 1/26/19

Under­re­port­ed and crit­i­cal news from and about Africa. Israel Threat­ens African Migrants with Impris­on­ment, Depor­ta­tion The gov­ern­ment of Israel recent­ly issued an order, ask­ing African migrants, refugees, to leave the coun­try with­in a few months or face depor­ta­tion. That’s accord­ing to many news orga­ni­za­tions, includ­ing the U.K. Inde­pen­dent which writes that the Israeli gov­ern­ment has…

Africa Bright Spots Remain Despite Negative Headlines

If you are like me I am sure you’ve been won­der­ing what is going on with recent news from the African con­ti­nent.  For exam­ple — I met a gen­tle­man who I’ll refer to sim­ply as a friend — at a restau­rant in Auro­ra, Col­orado on Jan­u­ary 16.  After a brief con­ver­sa­tion, he quick­ly asked me…

U.S. News & World Report Recognized by Africa Agenda

Africa Agenda’s inau­gur­al “Best in Africa Report­ing” awards were announced dur­ing the organization’s 2018 Africa Sum­mit on Novem­ber 2, 2018. The awards were giv­en, albeit sym­bol­i­cal­ly, to two news orga­ni­za­tions judged to have done an excel­lent job in their reportage of African news in a fair and unbi­ased way. Read more here. The sec­ond-place win­ner will be…

In Case You Missed It: 5/1/17 — 5/31/17

This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa In this week’s news, an Ethiopi­an is elect­ed the new WHO Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, South Africa’s Pres­i­dent faces more inves­ti­ga­tions for alleged cor­rup­tion, and long­time Zim­bab­wean leader, Robert Mugabe goes on a speak­ing tour. Ethiopi­an Politi­cian Named Head of the WHO The World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) has elected…

Malaria Vaccine Tops the News: May 1, 2017

ENCA.com In this week’s news, the world’s first malar­ia vac­cine is being devel­oped, Chi­na puts pres­sure on African fish­eries, and the Pope vis­its Egypt. Malar­ia Vac­cine Tri­als To Start Soon Begin­ning next year, the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) will begin real-world test­ing of its new malar­ia vac­cine. The vac­cine will be test­ed in Kenya, Ghana, and Malawi…

In Case You Missed It: 4/3/17 – 4/12/17

This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa. As the glob­al con­sump­tion of beer increas­es, pro­duc­tion and sales from Africa see growth, and the U.S. Coun­cil of For­eign Rela­tions writes about entrenched African lead­er­ship. Africa Pro­ject­ed to Beat North Amer­i­ca in Beer Sales by 2040 In the last sev­er­al years there has been much…