The most important in this week’s headlines out of and concerning Africa, for those who need help catching up. The week brings news about the launch of Google’s newest gadget in several African countries, as well as analysis from Foreign Affairs magazine which gives a rating of the Obama administration’s Africa policy thus far. Google expands…
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The most important in this week’s headlines out of and concerning Africa, for those who need help catching up. The week bring news about a live-tweet that made news around the world, a travel website that is expanding into markets in Africa, another menace from the Boko Haram and a crack down on slave owners in…
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When you listen to Steve Hogan, mayor of Aurora, Colorado’s second-largest city, it’s difficult not to conjecture what’s on his mind, as he attends plenty of functions involving the African immigrants that are a part of the city he leads. These functions occur all over Aurora, each day of the week. Hogan, who is running for…
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The most important in this week’s headlines out of and concerning Africa, for those who need help catching up. This week brings news about talks of Museveni running for re-election as president of Uganda, Cameroon returns 12,000 Nigerian refugees, and a Mali hotel siege that ends with 12 people dead. Meseveni seeking another term in office After…
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The most important in this week’s headlines out of and concerning Africa, for those who need help catching up. The week brings us news about an uproar about animal poaching in Zimbabwe and the controversy it is causing, as well as news that an estimated 178 people captured by Boko Haram were freed by the…
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The most important in this week’s headlines out of and concerning Africa, for those who need help catching up. This week brings controversy over President Obama’s visit to Ethiopia, an election outcome in Burundi and a U.S. visit by Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari. 1. President Barack Obama arrived in Ethiopia Sunday night in the final…
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A look at which countries across Africa penalize homosexuality and whether their laws will change following the United States passing of the same sex marriage act.
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Every time U.S. President, Barack Obama makes a trip to the African continent something interesting happens. The media crowd, those who can’t stop saying negative things about the continent come out and begin their Africa mantra. They did this during Obama’s first stop in the continent as president in 2009. They did it when…
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The most important in this week’s headlines out of and concerning Africa, for those who need help catching up. This week saw the release of five jailed Ethiopian bloggers, banning of full face veils in Cameroon and the opening of sub-Saharan Africa’s first Starbucks. 1. Starbucks will open its first sub-Saharan Africa coffee shop in…
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The most important in this week’s headlines out of and about Africa. In the week just passed we look at two Africa-related stories making headline news around the world. Police arrest opposition party leaders in Uganda and Ethiopia releases bloggers as Obama visit nears. Uganda crack down on the opposition In the lead up to elections in…
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