The 2022 Kenyan elections

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With their upcom­ing pres­i­den­tial elec­tions lat­er this sum­mer, Kenyans con­tin­ue their col­lec­tive effort at strength­en­ing and deep­en­ing their democ­ra­cy. But the moment is also fraught. The August 9 vote is expect­ed to be the most tight­ly con­test­ed in Kenya’s recent his­to­ry, with polit­i­cal ten­sions ris­ing since Kenyan Pres­i­dent Uhu­ru Keny­at­ta shift­ed his sup­port from Deputy…

Window of opportunity closing for South Sudan, on road to lasting peace

African News Review, East Africa, UN News AfricaLeave a comment

With eight months remain­ing, the win­dow of oppor­tu­ni­ty is clos­ing for South Sudan to meet crit­i­cal bench­marks required to com­plete its tran­si­tion away from long-run­n­ing civ­il con­flict, the Spe­cial Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for the coun­try told the Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil on Mon­day, press­ing par­ties to the Novem­ber 2018 peace deal, to imple­ment their com­mit­ments in let­ter and spirit.

New tools for easing cross-border trade in Africa

African News Review, Brookings Institution, Business and Finance, Business and Investment, East Africa, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Mike Ogbalu, CEO of the Pan-African Pay­ment Set­tle­ment Sys­tem (PAPSS) at the African Export-Import Bank, dis­cuss­es PAPSS, a cross bor­der, finan­cial mar­ket infra­struc­ture enabling pay­ment trans­ac­tions across Africa. Relat­ed Con­tent Fore­sight Africa pod­cast is part of the Brook­ings Pod­cast Net­work. Sub­scribe and lis­ten on Apple, Spo­ti­fy, and wher­ev­er you lis­ten to pod­casts. Send feed­back email to podcasts@brookings.edu, and…

Denver Plans Direct Flights to a “Growing African Continent”

Business and Finance, Business and Investment, Central Africa, East Africa, Headline, North Africa, Uncategorized, West Africa

DENVER  — (AFRICA NEWS MATTERS)  Recent­ly we learned Den­ver Inter­na­tion­al Air­port (DIA) and the city of Den­ver, fond­ly called the mile-high city, in the US state of Col­orado, have begun explor­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties for direct flights to con­ti­nen­tal Africa. DIA has set up a team that is work­ing on this ini­tia­tive called Den­ver Air Ser­vice Committee. …

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How the Swahili Language Can Lift Up the African Continent

African Perspective, Central Africa, Culture and Society, East Africa, Headline, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa

After so many years of talk about its poten­tial, the African con­ti­nent is wak­ing up to under­stand and appre­ci­ate the pow­er of uni­ty rep­re­sent­ed by a lan­guage.  The African Union (AU) offi­cial­ly adopt­ed Kiswahili or Swahili as one of the offi­cial work­ing lan­guages of the African con­ti­nent, the Assem­bly of Heads of State and Government…