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Africa New Highlights — March 28, 2022

Africa News Highlights, Headline

DENVER, USA — (Africa News Mat­ters)  Our Africa News High­lights focus­es on some of the most impact­ful head­lines out of and about Africa that you may have missed. This week’s sto­ries come from the fol­low­ing pub­li­ca­tions: For­eign Pol­i­cy Research Insti­tute, Asso­ci­at­ed Press (AP), CBS News, Slate Mag­a­zine, Fed­er­al News Net­work, and The Guardian.  WHY ARE…

Ethiopia’s Tigray Conflict Is Dominating Africa Headline News

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  Ten­sions in Ethiopia’s north­ern Tigray region have gone from talk­ing about the poten­tial for con­flict into what is now the after­math of a war between the country’s fed­er­al gov­ern­ment in Addis Aba­ba and the region­al gov­ern­ment in Tigray. An esti­mat­ed six mil­lion peo­ple live in the Tigray region.  Since fight­ing began on Novem­ber 4,…

President Donald Trump Described as a Racist by the Media

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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…