African leaders to attend 2022 World Economic Forum in Davos — CGTN

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FILE PHOTO: A man sil­hou­ettes in front of the logo of the World Eco­nom­ic Forum in Davos, Switzer­land, Sun­day, Jan. 19, 2020. (Photo/Markus Schreiber,file)

FILE PHOTO: A man sil­hou­ettes in front of the logo of the World Eco­nom­ic Forum in Davos, Switzer­land, Sun­day, Jan. 19, 2020. (Photo/Markus Schreiber,file)

African pres­i­dents are expect­ed join the world’s polit­i­cal and busi­ness elite in Davos, Switzer­land, for the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Annu­al Meet­ing that starts today and is expect­ed to run until May 26.The 2022 meet­ing is the first in-per­son meet­ing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.Happening under the theme of His­to­ry at a Turn­ing Point: Gov­ern­ment Poli­cies and Busi­ness Strate­gies, the meet­ing will have 200 ses­sions attend­ed by more than 2,500 lead­ers and experts.Some of the African lead­ers that have con­firmed atten­dance include Malawi Pres­i­dent Lazarus Chak­w­era, Zim­bab­we Pres­i­dent Emmer­son Mnan­gag­wa, Namib­ia Pres­i­dent Hage Gein­gob and Rwan­da Pres­i­dent Paul Kagame.The Forum is expect­ed to place focus on the ongo­ing con­flict in Ukraine.The 2022 forum will also have pan­els on a host of oth­er issues, includ­ing cli­mate change, ris­ing ener­gy prices, glob­al sup­ply chain prob­lems, gen­der inequal­i­ty and poverty.

DHS pauses controversial Disinformation Governance Board

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This sto­ry, plus Meta cre­ates new glob­al media part­ner­ships team, Chris Wal­lace to lead new show on CNN Sun­day line­up and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries May 18, 2022 May 19, 2022 May 18, 2022 Local News May 18, 2022 Social Media May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022 Press & Gov­ern­ment May 18, 2022 May 18, 2022 About Mis­in­for­ma­tion May…

Report: Global Pandemic Increased Poverty in Africa

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Nairo­bi —  The glob­al pan­dem­ic has pushed more than 55 mil­lion Africans into extreme pover­ty and reversed two decades of hard work in pover­ty reduc­tion on the con­ti­nent. The Eco­nom­ic Report on Africa for 2021 blamed the grow­ing pover­ty on job loss­es, reduced income and the inabil­i­ty of house­holds to man­age the risks In a 150-page…

Democracy Is Not a Commodity

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As the West imposed wide-rang­ing sanc­tions on Rus­sia in response to Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, reports emerged that the Unit­ed States might con­cur­rent­ly lift sanc­tions on the regime of anoth­er bru­tal dic­ta­tor: Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro. A sur­prise vis­it by a U.S. del­e­ga­tion to Cara­cas, Venezuela’s cap­i­tal, in March prompt­ed imme­di­ate speculation…

Libyan rivals resume U.N.-brokered talks on elections | AP News

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CAIRO (AP) — Rival Libyan offi­cials on Sun­day resumed talks in the Egypt­ian cap­i­tal, the lat­est U.N.-led efforts to agree on con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ments for elec­tions as the North African nation again finds itself at a polit­i­cal impasse.Twelve law­mak­ers from Libya’s east-based par­lia­ment and 11 from the High Coun­cil of State, an advi­so­ry body from west­ern Libya, were attend­ing the Cairo-host­ed talks, said Abdul­lah Bli­heg, the parliament’s spokesman.The U.N. spe­cial advis­er on Libya, Stephanie Williams, said the talks aim at address­ing core chal­lenges — includ­ing the polit­i­cal sys­tem, eli­gi­bil­i­ty cri­te­ria, and a time­line for elec­tions. She advised the atten­dees that they have until May 28 to come with an agreement.“This ses­sion con­sti­tutes your last chance to pro­vide a cred­i­ble response to the expec­ta­tions of the Libyan peo­ple and make con­crete progress on these issues,” she said.The first round of the talks

Chad: Hundreds stage anti-French Protest In N’djamena | Africanews

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Hun­dreds of Cha­di­ans joined anti-French protests called by the oppo­si­tion coali­tion Wak­it Tama on Sat­ur­day, May 14.
Pro­test­ers oppose France’s mil­i­tary pres­ence in the coun­try and sup­port for tran­si­tion­al Pres­i­dent Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, who has been in pow­er since his father’s death in 2021.
They report­ed­ly attacked “sym­bols” of their for­mer colo­nial pow­er, includ­ing sev­er­al Total petrol stations.

The protest was main­ly attend­ed by stu­dents with many on moto­cy­cles and chant­i­ng “France get out”.
**“Now France is med­dling in pol­i­tics, we don’t know, now the whole Cha­di­an ter­ri­to­ry is occu­pied by the French army. The French army is con­cerned with the wealth of Chad’s sub­soil and not with the well-being of the Cha­di­an people.”**Souleyman Tahir, Protester
For­mer pres­i­dent, Idriss Déby Itno, head­ed an author­i­tar­i­an regime for 30 years and was killed in bat­tle on April 20, 2021, dur­ing a rebel­lion in the north of the country.
Cha­di­an police fired tear gas and used water canon to dis­perse hun­dreds of pro­test­ers who took to the streets of the cap­i­tal and oth­er towns in an anti-French protest that saw the destruc­tion of some French-linked businesses.
The protest was called by Cha­di­an civ­il soci­ety coali­tion Wak­it Tam­ma to denounce France’s back­ing of the Tran­si­tion­al Mil­i­tary Coun­cil that seized pow­er fol­low­ing the bat­tle­field death of Pres­i­dent Idriss Deby in April 2021, a spokesman said.
As France’s influ­ence wanes in its for­mer colonies, recent protests in coun­tries such as Mali, Burk­i­na Faso and Niger have seen calls for increased mil­i­tary ties with Rus­sia instead of France.

Family death from nursing shortage inspires African-native to earn Miami degree — Journal-News

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It was a fam­i­ly tragedy that first led her to con­sid­er nurs­ing as a career.A rel­a­tive in her native African coun­try died while in an under-staffed hos­pi­tal, Addae said, with only one nurse for every 50 patients.“I vowed to become a nurse to care for the sick,” said Addae, a devout Chris­t­ian. “I am a woman of faith.”Earning a degree while rais­ing four young chil­dren requires much, she said. So, she often turns to one of her favorite Bible passages.“I can do all things through Christ who strength­ens me. When the going gets tough, I just talk to my God.”Addae’s per­se­ver­ance of han­dling both moth­er­hood times four and under­grad­u­ate class­es drew both the atten­tion of and praise of Mia­mi Uni­ver­si­ty Hamil­ton professors.“I remem­ber bawl­ing my eyes out one day when I was hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with Mia­mi Pro­fes­sor Dr. Eyad Mus­sallem because I thought I was going to fail a course,” Addae said. “He encour­aged and believed in me when I felt I couldn’t find the strength to car­ry on.”Addae “is an excel­lent stu­dent who is always will­ing to vol­un­teer to help oth­er stu­dents and goes above and beyond what is asked of her in the class­room,” said Tri­cia Neu, assis­tant pro­fes­sor of Nurs­ing and direc­tor of the FNP track. “We are so excit­ed to have her in our grad program.”Addae wasn’t sur­prised by the aca­d­e­m­ic assis­tance or high qual­i­ty of it region­al nurs­ing professors.“I decid­ed to enroll at Mia­mi Uni­ver­si­ty Region­als because of its out­stand­ing aca­d­e­m­ic reputation.”And now she is also set­ting her sights on smash­ing a gen­der stereo­type held by some fam­i­ly mem­bers in her old country.“Becoming a nurse prac­ti­tion­er will allow me to become the first woman among my sib­lings to pur­sue (an advanced degree),” she said. “I’ll break the stereo­type that only men can achieve high­er aca­d­e­m­ic suc­cess in my family.”

Guinea Junta Bans Political Protests

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Conakry, Guinea —  The mil­i­tary jun­ta rul­ing Guinea has banned polit­i­cal protests after announc­ing a three-year tran­si­tion peri­od before civil­ian rule is restored. “All demon­stra­tions on pub­lic roads, whose nature is to jeop­ar­dize social tran­quil­i­ty and the cor­rect imple­men­ta­tion of activ­i­ties in the (tran­si­tion) timetable are banned for the moment until the peri­od of electoral…

Ethiopia revokes accreditation of The Economist reporter — The East African

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By TESFA-ALEM TEKLE

Ethiopi­an author­i­ties on Fri­day revoked the press cre­den­tials of a for­eign jour­nal­ist who had been work­ing for The Econ­o­mist in the Horn of Africa nation.In a let­ter issued Fri­day after­noon and seen by The East­African, the Ethiopi­an Media Author­i­ty (EMA) said it has can­celled media accred­i­ta­tion of Tom Gard­ner, cit­ing fail­ure to main­tain pro­fes­sion­al ethics and vio­la­tions of the coun­try’s laws and reg­u­la­tions. It did not gave details of the allegations.“As a pro­fes­sion­al jour­nal­ist accred­it­ed to work in Ethiopia, you know very well that the con­di­tion of your per­mit is depen­dent on your strict obser­va­tion of pro­fes­sion­al ethics and the rules and the reg­u­la­tions of the coun­try,” it said.“This let­ter is writ­ten to inform you that your accred­i­ta­tion is revoked effec­tive imme­di­ate­ly, and you are no longer allowed to work as a jour­nal­ist in Ethiopia.”EMA said that pri­or to the deci­sion, the author­i­ty had sev­er­al dis­cus­sions with the journalist.However, the author­i­ty alleged that Mr Gard­ner failed to live to stan­dards of con­duct for journalists. 

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“Despite our repeat­ed dis­cus­sions, ver­bal warn­ings and writ­ten rep­ri­mands, you have not shown the will­ing­ness to cor­rect your mis­tak­en approach,” the let­ter said.It, how­ev­er, said The Econ­o­mist is wel­come to appoint an “unbi­ased and inde­pen­dent” jour­nal­ist to replace Mr Gardner.A few weeks ago, EMA had issued a warn­ing let­ter to the jour­nal­ist after he post­ed on his pri­vate social media that Prime Min­is­ter Abiy Ahmed and TPLF rebel leader Debre Zion Gebre-Michael had a tele­phone conversation.Authorities warned him to be care­ful about his report­ing, espe­cial­ly on sto­ries that could affect nation­al interest.Since the Tigray con­flict broke out in Novem­ber 2020, the Ethiopi­an gov­ern­ment has been crit­i­cised for cre­at­ing a dif­fi­cult envi­ron­ment for jour­nal­ists and dissidents.Journalists have also com­plained that they have been denied access to war zones where right vio­la­tions, includ­ing mas­sacres, rapes, and oth­er seri­ous crimes, have been reported.The Ethiopi­an gov­ern­ment led by PM Abiy Ahmed, a 2019 Noble Peace Prize win­ner, has been crit­i­cised by sev­er­al inter­na­tion­al right groups for using the state of emer­gency as a tool to arbi­trar­i­ly detain sev­er­al jour­nal­ists to sti­fle crit­i­cal report­ing and to silence war zone news coverage.The Com­mit­tee to Pro­tect Jour­nal­ists’ (CPJ) 2021 prison cen­sus ranked Ethiopia as sub-Saha­ran Africa’s sec­ond-worst jail­er of journalists.“We are very con­cerned. This devel­op­ment is the lat­est sign of Ethiopi­a’s dete­ri­o­rat­ing press free­dom envi­ron­ment,” CPJ’s Africa Pro­gram Coor­di­na­tor, Angela Quin­tal, told The East­African on Friday.Since the con­flict in Tigray erupt­ed, sev­er­al Ethiopi­an jour­nal­ists and trans­la­tors work­ing for a range of inter­na­tion­al media organisation—including to AFP, Nation Media Group, Reuters, the BBC and the Finan­cial Times—have been detained while doing their jobs.Last year Ethiopi­an author­i­ties also revoked press accred­i­ta­tion of a New York Times reporter.