U.S. Embassies in Africa Are Chronically Short-Staffed

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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Blinken-Africa-Embassies-GettyImages-1236657472.jpg U.S. embassies across Africa are fac­ing chron­ic staffing short­ages that are under­cut­ting U.S. for­eign-pol­i­­cy goals on the con­ti­nent and sap­ping the morale of the diplo­mat­ic corps, accord­ing to inter­views with mul­ti­ple U.S. offi­cials and region­al experts. The prob­lem has caught the atten­tion of top U.S. law­mak­ers, who have raised alarm bells about the long-term…

Odunde festival returns to Philadelphia to celebrate African heritage — WHYY

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A small crowd of paraders paused on the South Street Bridge Sun­day to offer gifts to Oshun, the riv­er god­dess in the Yoru­ba belief sys­tem of West Africa. A moment of prayer pre­ced­ed the throw­ing of offer­ings into the riv­er: whole pineap­ples, hon­ey-driz­­zled oranges, can­dy and streams of wine.  The rit­u­al is cen­tral to the Odunde…

The small African state of Somaliland legally doesn’t exist. But Taiwan has spied an … — ABC

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“It’s a secret,” smiles Allen C Lou, when asked how many Tai­wanese per­son­nel are based in Hargeisa, cap­i­tal of the unrecog­nised state of Soma­liland in the Horn of Africa.Taiwan is com­mit­ted to recog­nis­ing the de fac­to state and Lou is Taipei’s chief diplo­mat. But he is coy about just how sub­stan­tial Taipei’s diplo­mat­ic del­e­ga­tion real­ly is.On social media and in con­ver­sa­tion, he casu­al­ly embraces the title of ambas­sador. Yet giv­en the ambigu­ous polit­i­cal sta­tus of Soma­liland, his host coun­try, Lou is mind­ful to point out that his offi­cial title is mere­ly “representative”.But no mat­ter the size of Tai­wan’s pres­ence in Soma­liland, Taipei’s alliance with this unrecog­nised state has been steadi­ly build­ing since August 2020.

2023 African Nations Cup qualifiers results & fixtures (2nd round) — Africa — Ahram Online

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All times GMT+2
Sun­day 5 June 
Group E
Mada­gas­car 1–1 Ango­laS­cor­ers: Rako­to­hari­malala 36 / Gel­son 43
Cen­tral Africa 1–1 GhanaScor­ers: Nam­n­gan­da 41 / Kudus 17
Group J
Botswana 0–0 Tunisia
Mon­day 6 June 
21:00 Equa­to­r­i­al Guinea vs. Libya
Tues­day 7 June 
Group B
15:00 Eswa­ti­ni vs. Burk­i­na Faso18:00 Cap Verde vs. Togo
Group H
18:00 Zam­bia vs. Comoros
Group L
21:00 Rwan­da vs. Senegal
Wednes­day 8 June
Group F
15:00 Ugan­da vs. Niger18:00 Tan­za­nia vs. Algeria
Group G
18:00 Con­go vs. Gambia
Group I
18:00 Gabon vs. Mauritania21:00 Sudan vs. DR Congo
Group L
21:00 Benin vs. Mozambique
Thurs­day 9 June 
Group C
15:00 Burun­di vs. Cameroon
Group G
15:00 South Sudan vs. Mali
Group D
18:00 Guinea vs. Malawi18:00 Ethiopia vs. Egypt
Group H
19:00 Lesotho vs. Cote D’Ivoire
Mon­day 13 June 
Group A
15:00 Mau­ri­tius vs. Nigeria18:00 Sier­ra Leon vs. Guinea Bissau
Group K
21:00 Liberia vs. Morocco
(For more sports news and updates, fol­low Ahram Online Sports on Twit­ter at @AO_Sports and on Face­book at AhramOnlineSports.)

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Will France’s Africa Policy Hold Up?

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Sum­ma­ry Dur­ing his first term, French Pres­i­dent Emmanuel Macron sought to revi­tal­ize his country’s diplo­mat­ic out­reach to coun­tries through­out Africa. Some aspects of this piv­ot were designed to more direct­ly address the lega­cy of French colo­nial­ism in Fran­coph­o­ne coun­tries. He also sensed that the grow­ing stature of non-West­­ern pow­ers like Chi­na has giv­en African counterparts…

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.…

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…

Why the World Isn’t Really United Against Russia

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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/league-of-nations-geneva-GettyImages-1181884806.jpg As Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin’s army reduced one Ukrain­ian city after anoth­er to rub­ble, crush­ing civil­ians caught in apart­ment blocks and shop­ping malls under a rain of artillery and mis­sile fire, many observers in the rich world bemoaned the dys­func­tion of the Unit­ed Nations for not being able to over­come an obsta­cle writ­ten into…

Why African Leaders Won’t Back the West on Ukraine

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https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Cyril-Ramaphosa-GettyImages-1238570900.jpgWel­come to For­eign Pol­i­cy’s Africa Brief. The high­lights this week: The Unit­ed States calls for an inves­ti­ga­tion into atroc­i­ties in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Gam­bia’s oppo­si­tion par­ty los­es its major­i­ty in elec­tions, and the tri­al of South Africa’s Jacob Zuma is delayed again. If you would like to receive Africa Brief in your inbox every Wednesday,…

Africa News Highlights — April 11, 2022

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DENVER  — (AFRICA NEWS MATTERS)  Each week our staff at Africa News Mat­ters com­piles a list of impor­tant Africa sto­ries to feed your curios­i­ty. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? Ethiopi­an Video Jour­nal­ist for Asso­ci­at­ed Press Released on Bail With World Press Free­dom Day approach­ing, the detain­ment of Ethiopi­an video jour­nal­ist of the Asso­ci­at­ed Press Amir Aman Kiyaro deserves…