Djibouti’s Green Energy Revolution Not Getting Attention It Deserves

Finance and Economics, Headline

Uncov­er­ing the News — 04/05/21 – 04/13/21 What’s At Stake: This world­wide silence about such a big accom­plish­ment for the small East African coun­try shows once again that for many news orga­ni­za­tions, Africa only makes the news in neg­a­tive instances.   Dji­bouti, an East African nation is mak­ing it big with green ener­gy. On April 13, The…

Uncovering the News — 03/30/21 – 04/05/21

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What’s At Stake: The news media applauds Bas­ket­ball Africa League (BAL) which kicks off its inau­gur­al sea­son on May 16 at Kigali World Are­na, news orga­ni­za­tions exam­ine the actions of the French mil­i­tary that result­ed in civil­ian deaths in the nation of Mali, and media out­lets report clash­es and killings in Sudan. Bas­ket­ball Africa League (BAL)…

Uncovering the News — 03/22/21 – 03/29/21

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What’s At Stake: African media applaud the effort of a Niger­ian bil­lion­aire who is giv­ing back to the home­land, Tigray con­flict con­tin­ues to grab the head­lines as Eritrea begins a peace effort by with­draw­ing its troops from Ethiopia, and pres­sure mounts on inter­na­tion­al insti­tu­tions to return loot­ed African arti­facts where they belong.  Niger­ian Bil­lion­aire Pays It…

Uncovering the News — 03/8/21 — 03/22/21

East Africa, Headline, West Africa

What’s At Stake:  A lack of cov­er­age by non-African media fol­low­ing the pass­ing of a ris­ing polit­i­cal star in Ivory coast, a clear lack of knowl­edge about African musi­cal his­to­ry at the US Gram­mys, and Tan­za­ni­ans put democ­ra­cy on dis­play, with a peace­ful trans­fer of pow­er to a woman. Ivory Coast Mourns A Ris­ing Polit­i­cal Star March…

Headlines Tag Late Tanzanian Hero John Magufuli with Covid-19 Stigma

Covid-19, East Africa, Elections and Democracy, Headline

The news head­lines fol­low­ing the pass­ing of Tan­zan­ian leader John Magu­fuli paint him in a neg­a­tive light. This is not fair.  Magu­fuli became pres­i­dent in 2015 and won reelec­tion to a sec­ond term fol­low­ing the Octo­ber 2020 gen­er­al elec­tions. Tan­za­nia is often hailed as one of the African continent’s most demo­c­ra­t­ic, polit­i­cal­ly sta­ble, and pros­per­ous African nations.…