Given how much the world has changed in 2020, it is hard to fathom that the year was just one leap-day longer than 2019. On January 16th The Economist published its first article about a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China,
Incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo declared winner of Ghanaian elections On Wednesday, December 9, Ghana’s incumbent president Nana Akufo-Addo won a second term in office, winning 51.59 percent of the vote in general elections that took place on Monday. Opposition leader
YAOUNDE – Hundreds of supporters of Cameroon opposition leader Maurice Kamto have gathered at his home after his months-long de facto house arrest suddenly ended. Heavily armed police stationed at his home since September 22 left on Tuesday, but authorities
Morocco is gearing up for an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination program, aiming to vaccinate 80% of its adults in an operation starting this month that’s relying initially on a Chinese vaccine that has not yet completed advanced trials to prove it
Gorée Island is one of a handful of islands reachable by ferry from mainland Dakar.Credit…Sebastian Modak/The New York Times How to Pretend You’re in Dakar Today The Senegalese capital has an aura that seeps into the soul. Bustling and
Almost 50,000 Ethiopians have crossed into neighboring Sudan, escaping a war between the Ethiopian government and a rebellious region. They are facing dire conditions at camps.
shareSharenocloseShare pagelinkCopy linkAbout sharing image copyrightAFP Ghanaians are going to the polls to elect a new president and parliament in a country seen as one of the most democratic in West Africa. Eleven candidates
Joe Biden was proclaimed winner of the 2020 American presidential race on Saturday, Nov. 7. Biden crossed the 270 Electoral College votes threshold needed to secure the presidency. The rest of the votes are still being counted. They are yet to be certified by each of America’s 50 states. In electoral parlance, Biden is now…
The governing record of Paul Biya, Cameroon’s current leader, is making the news rounds, again. Biya assumed office as president of the centrally located African nation on Nov. 6, 1982. He’s been president now for 38 long years. Biya, now 87 years old, became president after serving as prime minister under the late President Ahmadou…
The United States is less than four months away from the election that would determine control of not just the Senate and the House which make up the legislative branch of the American government, but also control of the executive branch, the White House. As the coronavirus rages, and as protests over the mistreatment of…