Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Tunisia’s largest trade union calls a strike over wages, a politician in Algeria seeks to criminalize normalization of relations with Israel, and the Meroe pyramids in Sudan are digitized. If you would like to receive Africa Brief in your inbox every Wednesday, please sign up here.…
Introduction Financial sanctions tend to hurt both the sanctioned and the sanctioner, but they also threaten to hurt countries that are financially interlinked with the sanctioned country. Recent sanctions levied on Russia by the United States and the European Union in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are disrupting global trade and financial networks across…
The African nation of Liberia, located on the Western Coast of the continent is noted for the Ebola epidemic that severely impacted the country in 2014, as well as a civil war that claimed thousands of lives and displaced millions of people in the 1990s and 2000s. The sorrowful images of disease and war linger…
Abstract Ample empirical evidence shows that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) will boost the competitiveness of African economies and accelerate the diversification of sources of growth and trade to deepen economic integration in Africa and enhance the region’s assimilation into the world economy. However, realizing these potentials hinges on reversing the current trend…
Already reeling from COVID-19, the fighting in Ukraine has introduced significant and worrying new risks likely to heavily impact Africa, UN development experts warned on Friday.
PAVIA, ITALY (AFRICA NEWS MATTERS) Democracy has taken a hit in the African nation of Tunisia, once again. This comes 10 years since the Jasmine Revolution. Tunisia’s President Kais Saied continues to adopt measures that contradict his constitutional duties. Following elections in 2019, the number of internal divisions within the parliament began to grow. Recently…
DENVER, USA — (AFRICA NEWS MATTERS) News that an estimated 40,000 Cameroonians living in the United States may qualify for Temporary Protected Status or TPS rocketed to the top of the charts in the past week. There are several key dimensions to this story — not just the fact that the Cameroonian beneficiaries who are fleeing…
DENVER — (AFRICA NEWS MATTERS) Each week our staff at Africa News Matters compiles a list of important Africa stories to feed your curiosity. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? Ethiopian Video Journalist for Associated Press Released on Bail With World Press Freedom Day approaching, the detainment of Ethiopian video journalist of the Associated Press Amir Aman Kiyaro deserves…
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. …
DENVER — (AFRICA NEWS MATTERS) AFRICA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS — April 8, 2022. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? April 7, 2022 — The New York Times The New York Times: A Covid Mystery in Africa. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/podcasts/the-daily/covid-cases-africa.html April 4, 2022 — FIFA FIFA.com: Third time lucky for Cameroon?. https://www.fifa.com/news/cameroon-brazil-fifa-world-cup-draw-reunion April 4, 2022 — My Broadband South Africa’s top 10 news publications…