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…

Africa Media Bias Seen through Coverage of Covid-19

Africa Media Bias is some­thing that we often talk about. COVID-19 is mak­ing that dis­cus­sion rel­e­vant again.  The coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic has brought human inge­nu­ity to the fore. The sit­u­a­tion has sparked a remark­able resur­gence in the human spir­it as peo­ple all over the world are striv­ing in an inspir­ing bid to empha­size man’s most pri­mal instinct,…

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…

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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…

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…

Ebola in the DRC – Clashes in the Sudan – Africa Headlines

What is been described as a long-sim­mer­ing Ebo­la epi­dem­ic in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of Con­go (DRC) is mak­ing Africa head­line news after the dis­cov­ery of cas­es of the dis­ease at the bor­der of the DRC and Ugan­da. The Ebo­la cri­sis in the DRC which began last August accord­ing to the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) has…

Nigerian Elections Lead the News

There has been plen­ty of news relat­ing to the African con­ti­nent over the last sev­er­al weeks but Saturday’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tion in Nige­ria is the one event that gar­nered the most head­lines.  The pres­i­den­tial elec­tions were held on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 23 a week after it was delayed by the country’s Inde­pen­dent Nation­al Elec­tions Com­mis­sion (INEC). The…

Colorado’s Africans and US Politics

                          The African Com­mu­ni­ty in Col­orado con­tin­ues to grow. As this growth is pro­ject­ed to con­tin­ue, cov­er­age of Colorado’s Africans by local and inter­na­tion­al news media shows us how impor­tant the com­mu­ni­ty is to the state’s pol­i­tics.  The com­mu­ni­ty in Col­orado brings together…

In Case You Missed It: 5/1/17 — 5/31/17

This week’s most impor­tant head­lines out of and about Africa In this week’s news, an Ethiopi­an is elect­ed the new WHO Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, South Africa’s Pres­i­dent faces more inves­ti­ga­tions for alleged cor­rup­tion, and long­time Zim­bab­wean leader, Robert Mugabe goes on a speak­ing tour. Ethiopi­an Politi­cian Named Head of the WHO The World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) has elected…

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…