Gambia Says it Will Prosecute Former President for Murder

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How the West Lost Africa

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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Mali-Russia-protest-GettyImages-1240644471.jpgWel­come 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.…

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What’s next for U.S.-Africa relations under the Biden administration?

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https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ghana-president-vice-president-harris.jpg?w=270 Wit­ney Schnei­d­man, a Brook­ings Africa Growth Ini­tia­tive non­res­i­dent fel­low, assess­es U.S.-Africa rela­tions under the Biden admin­is­tra­tion, dis­cuss­es how the next ver­sion of the African Growth and Oppor­tu­ni­ty Act might bet­ter sup­port U.S.-Africa trade, and offers rec­om­men­da­tions for enhanc­ing U.S. trade and invest­ment in the region. Relat­ed Con­tent Fore­sight Africa pod­cast is part of the…

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Pandemic Creates New Billionaires as Global Inequality Rises 

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https://gdb.voanews.com/031a0000-0aff-0242-a557-08da3dbea544_tv_w800_h450.jpg Lon­don —  The world’s bil­lion­aires have increased their wealth by tril­lions of dol­lars since the begin­ning of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic, while the world’s poor­est peo­ple are strug­gling with soar­ing prices and ris­ing debt, accord­ing to an analy­sis by char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tion, Oxfam. As the glob­al busi­ness elite gath­er in the Swiss moun­tain resort of Davos for…

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China Is Doing Biden’s Work for Him

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https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/zMtluiAZIEUvPPNmFGAk6gH0pxM=/960x540/media/img/mt/2022/05/GettyImages_1398264563/original.jpg If Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s trip to Asia—marked as it was by his com­ments on the defense of Tai­wan, announce­ments on a pro­posed new region­al trade pact, and meet­ings with lead­ers who exhib­it sim­i­lar lev­els of con­cern about a ris­ing China—has shown the per­sis­tence of Amer­i­can glob­al pow­er, it has also revealed some­thing of equal…

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Hawaii governor signs bill to protect student journalists

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This sto­ry, plus Meta to give aca­d­e­mics and jour­nal­ists infor­ma­tion on polit­i­cal ad tar­get­ing, Fox to move into lifestyle con­tent and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries May 23, 2022 May 23, 2022 May 24, 2022 Press & Gov­ern­ment May 23, 2022 Tele­vi­sion News May 23, 2022 Media Busi­ness May 23, 2022 May 23, 2022 Social Media May 23, 2022 International…

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Somalia’s Newly Elected President Assumes Office

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https://gdb.voanews.com/031a0000-0aff-0242-beb1-08da3d0be71c_w800_h450.jpg Mogadishu, Soma­lia —  Has­san Sheikh Mohamud offi­cial­ly took office in the Horn of Africa coun­try after a han­dover cer­e­mo­ny in Mogadishu. A week ago, Mohamud won the pres­i­den­cy after an intense elec­tion, defeat­ing Mohamed Abdul­lahi Mohamed, known as Far­ma­jo, in a third round of vot­ing. Has­san Sheikh Mohamud becomes the first ex-pres­i­­dent in Somalia…

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“I was embarrassed to use my African name” — BBC Africa

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Edu­ca­tion in Africa is based on post-colo­­nial cur­ricu­lums whose con­tent taught lit­tle and often skewed African his­to­ry and cul­ture and its place in the world. We went to the Chil­dren in Free­dom School in Kenya to find out how their Afro­cen­tric approach dif­fers from the norm, and how the par­ents and stu­dents have embraced it. Produced,…

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