In Case You Missed It: 01/11/16 – 01/18/16

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. In this week’s news, South Africa goes head-to-head with the U.S. over chick­en, meat and pork, and a new case of Ebo­la is dis­cov­ered in Sier­ra Leone a day after it is declared Ebo­la-free. South Africa Settles…

In Case You Missed It 10/26/15 — 11/1/15

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. This week brings news of a beer merg­er which impacts con­sumers in Africa, a change in AGOA trade ben­e­fits, and ter­ror in Soma­lia.   Beer Merg­er Hints at Eco­nom­ic Change Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to pay $100…

In Case You Missed It 06/22/15–06/28/15

The most impor­tant of this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up.  AGOA lives on, Buhari pre­pares for U.S. vis­it In the week that just passed, we look at two key sto­ries mak­ing head­line news about Africa. Both the U.S. House and Sen­ate reau­tho­rized AGOA, or the African Growth Opportunity…

Africa’s New Era Continues with Gains in Peace and Democracy

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…