We’re hearing the rumblings about jobs, tax cuts, abortion, immigration, and the like as the 2012 U.S. presidential elections enter full gear. We’re also hearing much talk about energy policy, defense, and such things, from President Barack Obama as well as from his Republican (GOP) challenger, former Governor Mitt Romney. As Democrats convene in Charlotte, North…
News that Africa is booming is going mainstream. At least that is the point that is discerned when major U.S. print and broadcasting outlets such as the Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic, Christian Science Monitor and NPR pick up on news of transformation that is taking place in continental Africa. These organizations are devoting…
It has long been a point of contention within many African communities both at home and abroad that coverage of Africa by Western news media is largely biased, if not fractured. It’s a fractured view and image of an estimated one billion inhabitants of Africa, living in 54 nations; from the North, West, East, and…
In the world of fast-paced twenty-four-hour news, to craft a powerful news headline means the headline should stand out and draw readers’ attention amid a plethora of stories from all directions. It’s a theory that applies to print and television news–when powerful headline news, embodied in sudden peace agreements, rebel surrenders, mayhem, and conflict, easily…
The Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver is where a lot of discussions are held every year on many hot-button international affairs. There was no exception to that rule on Saturday, July 23, 2007, when a group of Africans across the United States came together to discuss the state of democracy…
The most important in this week’s headlines out of and about Africa, for those who need help catching up. In this week’s news, the Central African Republic names a new Prime Minister, and U.S. economist Harry Broadman wants our economic perceptions about Africa to change. Economist, Harry Broadman, Frustrated By Notion of “Africa As A Country”…
https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000–0aff-0242–9574–08dc407f9f0a_cx0_cy10_cw0_w800_h450.jpgDAKAR, Senegal — Presidential candidates in Senegal kicked off their election campaigns Saturday, following weeks of violent protests across the African country after the vote was delayed. The 19 approved candidates vying for the top job now have a shorter period to rally supporters ahead of the March 24 election, expected to be the most tightly…
https://gdb.voanews.com/7ba2b9d7-2166–40b2-b192-4e66743c56d1_cx0_cy10_cw0_w800_h450.jpgDAKAR, SENEGAL — Senegal’s Constitutional Council on Thursday ruled that parliament’s unprecedented postponement of the February 25 presidential vote was not in line with the constitution, pitching the country into a new phase of electoral uncertainty. Opposition presidential candidates and lawmakers last week filed several legal challenges to the bill that delayed the vote to December…
https://gdb.voanews.com/091e0000-0a00-0242–8cf8-08dabdb62760_w800_h450.jpgYaounde, Cameroon — Leaders of Cameroon’s main opposition party say they are negotiating with more than 30 opposition leaders to present a single candidate in the next election, should 91-year-old President Paul Biya be incapacitated by ill health. The opposition reacted after Biya, who has ruled for more than four decades, made no mention of running…
https://gdb.voanews.com/f83656b4-3034–4dec-bc4c-92d469468139_cx0_cy8_cw0_w800_h450.jpgPARIS — France closes 2023 with a diminished presence in Africa’s restive Sahel region, after withdrawing troops from three once-staunch allied countries collectively fighting an Islamist insurgency, and seeing its influence increasingly replaced by other powers, including Russia. The last French soldiers left Niger earlier this month, with Paris taking the unusual step of closing its…