Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict Is Dominating Africa Headline News

  Ten­sions in Ethiopia’s north­ern Tigray region have gone from talk­ing about the poten­tial for con­flict into what is now the after­math of a war between the country’s fed­er­al gov­ern­ment in Addis Aba­ba and the region­al gov­ern­ment in Tigray. An esti­mat­ed six mil­lion peo­ple live in the Tigray region.  Since fight­ing began on Novem­ber 4,…

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How Six Newspapers in Africa Portrayed the Joe Biden Win

Joe Biden was pro­claimed the 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…

Plot to Oust WHO Chief, Tedros Ghebreyesus

When Tedros Adhanon Ghe­breye­sus ascend­ed to the top of lead­er­ship at the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) in 2017, my col­league, Raevyn Goates wrote about it at Africa Agen­da. Ghe­breye­sus won the vote in 2017 by 63 %, which was an over­whelm­ing 133 votes out of 185 votes cast. He was the first direc­­tor-gen­er­al of the…

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Writing During Trump Era — 6 Things African Journalists Must Know

Writ­ing dur­ing the Don­ald Trump Era: It was crit­i­cal for those who advo­cat­ed on behalf of the African con­ti­nent, African blog­gers and jour­nal­ists espe­cial­ly, to take a stand and fight for the con­ti­nent we believe in. African blog­gers need to have a voice on the inter­net, just as the mil­i­tary has a voice on the…

African Nations’ Participation in the 2018 World Cup in Russia

Edi­tor’s Note: As the 2018 World Cup in Rus­sia pro­gressed we assigned Ife Nwosu to give us a score­card of what was hap­pen­ing. Here you’ll find Ife’s obser­va­tions, first record­ed in July. This year’s World Cup is tak­ing place in Rus­sia. And as always, the com­pe­ti­tion is fierce, espe­cial­ly among the four African coun­tries still participating.…

Trump Uses Slur to Describe African Nations

In reac­tion to the racist and dis­parag­ing remarks made recent­ly by U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in the pres­ence of con­gress­men, call­ing Haiti and African coun­tries “s##holes,” there has been a wave of con­dem­na­tion in the US and around the world. What is unfor­tu­nate about this, how­ev­er, is the fact that this came from the most pow­er­ful man…