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If Trump’s Africa Strategy Is A Failure — What Would Biden Do If He Wins?

  The Unit­ed States is less than four months away from the elec­tion that would deter­mine con­trol of not just the Sen­ate and the House which make up the leg­isla­tive branch of the Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment, but also con­trol of the exec­u­tive branch, the White House. As the coro­n­avirus rages, and as protests over the mistreatment…

As George Floyd Protests Rock U.S., Africans Vent about Inequality

On Amer­i­can TV, CNN’s Bri­an­na Keil­er summed up, bet­ter than any­one, what is tak­ing place in the Unit­ed States fol­low­ing the May 25 killing of George Floyd. You are watch­ing America’s reck­on­ing, the anchor of CNN’s mid-day News­room pro­gram nar­rat­ed. She went to list the many unprece­dent­ed changes that have occurred, so quick­ly, some of…

Trump’s Latest Immigration Ban Targets the African Continent — Again

  On April 22, U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed, as he promised, an exec­u­tive order ban­ning immi­gra­tion into Amer­i­ca for 60 days. At the core of the move is the sus­pen­sion of the issuance of any new green cards to immi­grants into Amer­i­ca. This lat­est move comes as the Unit­ed States is in the midst…

COVID-19 Fallout: Africans Angry, Doctors Rebuked, Trump Defunds WHO

In the ever-increas­ing news around Covid-19 or the coro­n­avirus, a lot is hap­pen­ing. It’s hard to keep track of every­thing. Even while plen­ty of good things have hap­pened in the midst of the pan­dem­ic, such as how peo­ple are cop­ing with the virus, it’s the ones that cause unnec­es­sary pain that has gained the most…

WHO Says “End in Sight” for Ebola in the DRC

The news that the Ebo­la epi­dem­ic in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of Con­go (DRC) is near­ing the end did not receive the news cov­er­age it deserves.  Instead, what we heard about the most was cov­er­age of the coro­n­avirus which con­tin­ues to spread around the world.  Ebo­la in the DRC in 2018, as well as Ebo­la in three…

Trump Administration's Prosper Africa Strategy

Trump Administration’s Prosper Africa Strategy

It was not long ago when for­mer U.S. nation­al secu­ri­ty advis­er, John Bolton, now the sub­ject of a Con­gres­sion­al inves­ti­ga­tion involv­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, gave a speech out­lin­ing America’s new Pros­per Africa strat­e­gy. Speak­ing at the Her­itage Foun­da­tion in Wash­ing­ton D.C. on Decem­ber 13, 2018, Bolton said, “The White House is proud to final­ize this…

President Donald Trump Described as a Racist by the Media

The recent deroga­to­ry tweets direct­ed towards four Amer­i­can demo­c­ra­t­ic con­gress­women by the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, Don­ald Trump, read more like a sto­ry­book villain’s tirade than of the com­­man­der-in-chief of the world’s most pow­er­ful nation. The tweets from Trump, stat­ing that the con­gress­women “who orig­i­nal­ly came from coun­tries whose gov­ern­ments are a com­plete and…

Ebola in the DRC – Clashes in the Sudan – Africa Headlines

What is been described as a long-sim­mer­ing Ebo­la epi­dem­ic in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of Con­go (DRC) is mak­ing Africa head­line news after the dis­cov­ery of cas­es of the dis­ease at the bor­der of the DRC and Ugan­da. The Ebo­la cri­sis in the DRC which began last August accord­ing to the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) has…

Rwandan Genocide Remembrance – Lead Africa Headlines

Fight­ing in Libya Threat­ens Secu­ri­ty in Entire North­ern Africa Region  In Libya, the news is not about progress in the coun­try – it’s about insta­bil­i­ty there which helped push Amer­i­can troops out, albeit tem­porar­i­ly. It’s not clear where the U.S. troops, escap­ing the intense fight­ing in Tripoli, are relo­cat­ing to. Eight years after for­mer Libyan leader…

Reports of Ethiopian Airlines Crash Leads the News Globally

Reports that an Ethiopi­an Air­lines air­craft, a Boe­ing 737 MAX 8 crashed Sun­day, March 10 en route from Addis Aba­ba, the Ethiopi­an cap­i­tal to Nairo­bi, Kenya woke me up ear­ly in the morn­ing. I received two alerts on my smart­phone ear­ly in the morn­ing, from the New York Times, as well as from Reuters, which…