Putin’s World Order Would Be Devastating for Africa

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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/RUSSIA-AFRICA-WAR-GettyImages-1235921645.png On March 2, mem­ber states of the Unit­ed Nations Gen­er­al Assem­bly vot­ed over­whelm­ing­ly in favor of a res­o­lu­tion that strong­ly con­demned Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin’s war of aggres­sion against Ukraine. The res­o­lu­tion, which was sup­port­ed by 141 mem­ber states, affirmed that “any attempt aimed at the … dis­rup­tion of the ter­ri­to­r­i­al integri­ty of a…

African leaders to attend 2022 World Economic Forum in Davos — CGTN

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FILE PHOTO: A man sil­hou­ettes in front of the logo of the World Eco­nom­ic Forum in Davos, Switzer­land, Sun­day, Jan. 19, 2020. (Photo/Markus Schreiber,file)

FILE PHOTO: A man sil­hou­ettes in front of the logo of the World Eco­nom­ic Forum in Davos, Switzer­land, Sun­day, Jan. 19, 2020. (Photo/Markus Schreiber,file)

African pres­i­dents are expect­ed join the world’s polit­i­cal and busi­ness elite in Davos, Switzer­land, for the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Annu­al Meet­ing that starts today and is expect­ed to run until May 26.The 2022 meet­ing is the first in-per­son meet­ing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.Happening under the theme of His­to­ry at a Turn­ing Point: Gov­ern­ment Poli­cies and Busi­ness Strate­gies, the meet­ing will have 200 ses­sions attend­ed by more than 2,500 lead­ers and experts.Some of the African lead­ers that have con­firmed atten­dance include Malawi Pres­i­dent Lazarus Chak­w­era, Zim­bab­we Pres­i­dent Emmer­son Mnan­gag­wa, Namib­ia Pres­i­dent Hage Gein­gob and Rwan­da Pres­i­dent Paul Kagame.The Forum is expect­ed to place focus on the ongo­ing con­flict in Ukraine.The 2022 forum will also have pan­els on a host of oth­er issues, includ­ing cli­mate change, ris­ing ener­gy prices, glob­al sup­ply chain prob­lems, gen­der inequal­i­ty and poverty.

For Macron’s Second Term — a Lower Profile in Africa?

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https://gdb.voanews.com/d5132b83-13f7-4346-bd6c-dcc6657d0391_w800_h450.jpgParis —  Five years ago, France’s Emmanuel Macron saw big when it came to Africa. Days after his pres­i­den­tial inau­gu­ra­tion, he flew to north­east­ern Mali, meet­ing with French troops and vow­ing, along­side his Malian coun­ter­part, Ibrahim Boubacar Keï­ta, to wage an “uncom­pro­mis­ing fight” against Islamist ter­ror­ism. A few months lat­er in anoth­er Sahel coun­try, nearby…

In Senegal’s Former Capital, a Colonial Statue in Hiding Is No Longer Welcome

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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/04/14/world/00senegal-statue-promo/00senegal-statue-1-moth.jpg The city of Saint-Louis was shaped by Louis Faid­herbe, a French gov­er­nor who also led bru­tal mil­i­tary cam­paigns in West Africa. What to do with his lega­cy has divid­ed Sene­gal. SAINT-LOUIS, Sene­gal — For more than a cen­tu­ry, the French gen­er­al who shaped Senegal’s for­mer cap­i­tal was hailed as a hero and a father…

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How the Swahili Language Can Lift Up the African Continent

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After so many years of talk about its poten­tial, the African con­ti­nent is wak­ing up to under­stand and appre­ci­ate the pow­er of uni­ty rep­re­sent­ed by a lan­guage.  The African Union (AU) offi­cial­ly adopt­ed Kiswahili or Swahili as one of the offi­cial work­ing lan­guages of the African con­ti­nent, the Assem­bly of Heads of State and Government…

Cameroon Anglophone Crisis Receives Attention from CNN

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A desta­bi­liz­ing war between the gov­ern­ment in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and Anglo­phone sep­a­ratists has been going on for more than four years. Hun­dreds of civil­ians have died as a result. Thou­sands have been dis­placed and are now refugees in neigh­bor­ing coun­tries. Most nego­ti­a­tions to resolve the con­flict appear to have failed. With each pass­ing day that…

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)…

Coronavirus: What’s happening to the numbers in Africa?

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image copy­rightReuters There’s been a slight increase in Covid-19 infec­tions in Africa over the past few weeks, accord­ing to the lat­est infor­ma­tion. The num­ber of dai­ly new cas­es has been ris­ing grad­u­al­ly after declin­ing since mid-July, accord­ing to the Africa Cen­tres for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion (CDC) and the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO). But in…

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A Case for Susan Rice as US Vice President

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As Amer­i­ca crawls toward the Novem­ber 3 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, there is plen­ty of spec­u­la­tion, includ­ing prog­nos­ti­ca­tion, about who for­mer vice-pres­i­­dent and pre­sump­tive Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Joe Biden will pick as his run­ning mate.  First, some con­text. Per­haps you are not a polit­i­cal junkie, you are just a layper­son or an aver­age Joe and may be won­der­ing why…