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…

Spotlight! – This Week – 1/1/19 – 1/26/19

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Under­re­port­ed and crit­i­cal news from and about Africa. Israel Threat­ens African Migrants with Impris­on­ment, Depor­ta­tion The gov­ern­ment of Israel recent­ly issued an order, ask­ing African migrants, refugees, to leave the coun­try with­in a few months or face depor­ta­tion. That’s accord­ing to many news orga­ni­za­tions, includ­ing the U.K. Inde­pen­dent which writes that the Israeli gov­ern­ment has…

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…

In Case You Missed It: 3/27/17 — 4/2/17

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This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa. In this week’s news, Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump tar­gets Soma­lia, the Unit­ed Nations deals a blow to the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of the Con­go, and a Niger­ian pilot makes his­to­ry. US Orders Airstrikes in Soma­lia In an effort to fight ter­ror­ism around the world, President…

African Community Radio, KETO FM, Coming to Colorado

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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…

In Case You Missed It: 8/22/16 — 9/1/16

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This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa. In this week’s news, Face­book founder, Mark Zucker­berg vis­its Nige­ria and Kenya, and African migrants flow into Mex­i­co. Mex­i­co Issues Tran­sit Visas to African Migrants  Accord­ing to an Asso­ci­at­ed Press sto­ry reprint­ed by the Col­orado Springs Gazette, author­i­ties in Mex­i­co have recent­ly issued tran­sit visas…

In Case You Missed It: 8/15/16 — 8/21/16

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This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa. In this week’s news, Africa takes home the gold at the Olympics, an Olympian uses his win to protest vio­lence in his home coun­try, and John Ker­ry plans an Africa trip. Ten Gold Medals Go to African Con­ti­nent The 2016 Olympics have con­clud­ed, and it’s…

In Case You Missed It: 12/28/15–1/3/16

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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, elec­tions in the Cen­tral African Repub­lic bring hopes for rec­on­cil­i­a­tion, Cameroon’s Pres­i­dent thanks the U.S. for their help in the fight against Boko Haram, and Somalia’s al-Shabab group uses footage of U.S. presidential…

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

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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…