Framing U.S.-Africa Relations under the Trump Administration

Amer­i­cans are cast­ing their votes in the Novem­ber 3 elec­tion for those who would rep­re­sent them at nation­al and local lev­els. The stakes are espe­cial­ly high for the offices of the Pres­i­dent, Sen­a­tors, and the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. While this is tak­ing place, I’ve been reflect­ing on the impor­tance of the rela­tions between the United…

6 African Development Stories You May Have Missed

No doubt, coro­n­avirus has become one of the dead­liest dis­eases in mod­ern his­to­ry, with about 500,000 casu­al­ties world­wide. The pan­dem­ic has left in its wake severe eco­nom­ic con­se­quences, espe­cial­ly for the world’s devel­op­ing nations. Despite the many socio-eco­nom­ic chal­lenges faced and exac­er­bat­ed by the pan­dem­ic, many African nations have shown great resilience. The news continues…

Five African Nations Battling Covid-19

The news is full of bad reports about the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic which is wreak­ing hav­oc all over the world. With a vac­cine at least months, if not a year away, there is cause for some opti­mism in the fight against the dis­ease in the African con­ti­nent. As we have been track­ing how nations are dealing…

Be Careful What You Share on Facebook: Professor Ben Bongang

Today we bring to you Part 2 of Africa Agenda’s Cel­e­bra­tion of World Press Free­dom Day in 2019. Greet­ings to our all of guests in the Unit­ed States and around the world.  Les­son to be learned: High-qual­i­­ty news is impor­tant News man­agers must make a clear dis­tinc­tion between report­ing and opin­ion writ­ing Africans must learn to separate…

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Russian Trolls in Ghana, Nigeria — What CNN Got Right and Wrong

If you are an avid con­sumer of inter­na­tion­al news you may have seen the sto­ry that Cable News Net­work aka CNN ran recent­ly about Russ­ian trolls in Ghana and Nige­ria. This sto­ry is espe­cial­ly rel­e­vant for the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment as it relates to the issue of med­dling in its elec­tions by for­eign enti­ties. But…

Videos

These videos tell the real sto­ry about the African con­ti­nent  Africa Agen­da: World Press Free­dom Day, 2019 ‑Part 1  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppmCTi3zZn8 Chi­na’s Foot­print in Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGnYpxTVh8 TALK AFRICA in 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojY2E5I8bG4 In a speech that went viral, Ghana’s pres­i­dent, Aku­­fo-Addo, says Africans, not for­eign­ers, should devel­op the African con­ti­nent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN6OWCe-AfA Rwan­dan Leader, Kagame, Implores Africans to Hold Themselves…

The News

African News Today — This Week — This Month

“Cov­er­age of the African con­ti­nent con­sti­tutes only 5.6 per­cent of inter­na­tion­al news pro­duced by US news media. This 5.6 per­cent offers for its intend­ed audi­ence lit­tle depth in the por­tray­al of an entire con­ti­nent.”  —Asya A. Beso­va, and Skye Chance Coo­ley, For­eign News and Pub­lic Opin­ion, 2010 Each day sig­nif­i­cant African News—Today—This week— This Month happens…

Malaria Vaccine Tops the News: May 1, 2017

ENCA.com In this week’s news, the world’s first malar­ia vac­cine is being devel­oped, Chi­na puts pres­sure on African fish­eries, and the Pope vis­its Egypt. Malar­ia Vac­cine Tri­als To Start Soon Begin­ning next year, the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) will begin real-world test­ing of its new malar­ia vac­cine. The vac­cine will be test­ed in Kenya, Ghana, and Malawi…

In Case You Missed It: 12/26/16 — 1/2/17

This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa. In this week’s news, pol­i­tics take cen­ter stage in the African con­ti­nent. Elec­tions in The Gam­bia and Ghana are being final­ized and a look ahead to Zim­bab­we in 2018.  Elec­tion Results in The Gam­bia Gam­bian Pres­i­dent Yahya Jam­meh sur­prised near­ly the entire world when he acknowledged…

African Community Radio, KETO FM, Coming to Colorado

As Colorado’s African com­mu­ni­ty grows, the needs of the com­mu­ni­ty have increased as well. It may be time for an African Radio in Col­orado, focused on the needs of the com­mu­ni­ty.  We’ve seen how Amer­i­can local gov­ern­ments, city coun­cils, and munic­i­pal­i­ties around the area address these chal­lenges of growth, from boost­ing road infra­struc­ture expen­di­tures to…