Coronavirus Vs Ebola: A Contrast in Fox News’ Coverage of the News

Fox News has been mis­in­form­ing the Amer­i­can pub­lic for decades. The U.S. TV audi­ence is very much vul­ner­a­ble and sus­cep­ti­ble to the lies which Fox News puts out. This is why Fox remains a rat­ing bonan­za. Their hypocrisy in the cov­er­age of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic com­pared to the cov­er­age of the Ebo­la epi­dem­ic is mind…

WHO Says “End in Sight” for Ebola in the DRC

The news that the Ebo­la epi­dem­ic in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of Con­go (DRC) is near­ing the end did not receive the news cov­er­age it deserves.  Instead, what we heard about the most was cov­er­age of the coro­n­avirus which con­tin­ues to spread around the world.  Ebo­la in the DRC in 2018, as well as Ebo­la in three…

Advocates in Denver Decry Rights Abuses in South Sudan 

Feb­ru­ary 22 is the lat­est dead­line set by the inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty, includ­ing the lead­ing spon­sors of peace in South Sudan – the Unit­ed States, Unit­ed King­dom, Nor­way, and Italy –for both the gov­ern­ment and the oppo­si­tion to reach an agree­ment and resolve the con­flict in the war-torn coun­try. This dead­line to form a uni­ty government…

Mike Pompeo’s Trip to Africa Leads the Headlines

Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State, Mike Pom­peo con­clud­ed a trip to Dakar, Sene­gal on Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 15. While there he held talks with the country’s lead­ers, includ­ing Pres­i­dent, Macky Sall, and For­eign Min­is­ter, Amadou Ba, accord­ing to this release from the State Depart­ment. While the dis­cus­sions in Sene­gal focused on secu­ri­ty mat­ters, espe­cial­ly as the…

Trump Administration's Prosper Africa Strategy

Trump Administration’s Prosper Africa Strategy

It was not long ago when for­mer U.S. nation­al secu­ri­ty advis­er, John Bolton, now the sub­ject of a Con­gres­sion­al inves­ti­ga­tion involv­ing Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, gave a speech out­lin­ing America’s new Pros­per Africa strat­e­gy. Speak­ing at the Her­itage Foun­da­tion in Wash­ing­ton D.C. on Decem­ber 13, 2018, Bolton said, “The White House is proud to final­ize this…

Immigrant Communities Look for Answers after Aurora Shooting

These are sor­row­ful times in Amer­i­ca. Once again, tragedy hit the Unit­ed States the week­end of August 4, when shoot­ings rocked El Paso in Texas, and hours lat­er in Day­ton, Ohio. Sad­ly, these shoot­ings in the U.S. are orches­trat­ed with the use of high-pow­ered guns, some con­sid­ered weapons of war in the hands of civilians…

President Donald Trump Described as a Racist by the Media

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…

Following Paul Biya Stay in Switzerland, Reporter Gets into Trouble

The Anglo­phone cri­sis in Cameroon which picked up steam in late 2016 and con­tin­ues to this moment has degen­er­at­ed from what was described then as a near-civ­il war into what is now seen as a full-blown civ­il war between sep­a­ratists and the Cameroon­ian mil­i­tary. The casu­al­ties on both sides con­tin­ue to mount.  The Inter­na­tion­al Cri­sis Group…

Media Blame Failed Ethiopia Coup on the Country’s Ethnic Divisions

Con­fu­sion remains fol­low­ing what media around the world have described as an attempt to seize pow­er in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, as well as in the country’s cap­i­tal, Addis Aba­ba on Sat­ur­day, June 22. It is still a con­fus­ing sit­u­a­tion as many peo­ple have been dis­placed by mil­i­tary activ­i­ty and arrests con­tin­ue in a gov­ern­ment effort…

African Migrants Flocking to U.S.-Mexico Border – Africa Headlines

As more peo­ple from the African con­ti­nent leave to seek oppor­tu­ni­ties else­where, the route to a bet­ter life out­side of the con­ti­nent is tak­ing many not just through North Africa and the Mediter­ranean which leads into Europe, but also through coun­tries in South Amer­i­ca in the attempt to get to the Unit­ed States. On June…