Djibouti’s Green Energy Revolution Not Getting Attention It Deserves

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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…

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Giant African Snails Make the Headlines in America

African Perspective, Culture and Society, Headline

From a cur­so­ry look, at least two dozen US news orga­ni­za­tions report­ed this sto­ry about African snails on their web­sites and TV broad­casts. We are not even count­ing the ones that report­ed the sto­ry in oth­er forms. It’s the cus­tom of many African immi­grants liv­ing in the Unit­ed States that when they trav­el to the continent,…

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Somalia: ‘Prioritize the national interest’ international partners urge, as political stalemate continues

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The UN and inter­na­tion­al part­ners work­ing to sup­port a last­ing peace and demo­c­ra­t­ic elec­tion process across Soma­lia, said on Sun­day that they were high­ly con­cerned by the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion there, call­ing on Soma­li lead­ers to “pri­or­i­tize the nation­al inter­est” and resolve their polit­i­cal impasse.

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)…

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