Over-reliance on international news wire agencies is the main reason why African media outlets continue to perpetuate harmful narratives about Africa, a recent study has [read more…]
Africa has defied the covid-19 nightmare scenarios. We shouldn’t be surprised. Washington Post After the novel coronavirus first appeared in Africa in late February, Ghana’s [read more…]
Leaked documents and an affidavit from a whistleblower working at a major Western fishing company operating in African waters have given rare insight into how [read more…]
Africa eyes the world’s top trade job — but spars over its candidate Politico One senior African trade official stressed that the continent’s advantage was [read more…]
U.S. immigration authorities locked detainees from African and Caribbean countries in solitary confinement cells six times as often as the population at large, a new [read more…]
“Clean up the foreign trash!”. “Don’t turn our hometown into an international rubbish dump.” “This is China, not Nigeria!” Resembling the anti-migrant racist hatred you [read more…]
Africa’s ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their own countries. [read more…]
Lesotho Kingdom, a former British protectorate surrounded completely by it’s big neighbour – South Africa. Made up of mostly of highlands with harsh environment which [read more…]
Parts of Africa are currently facing the worst locust swarms in more than a generation, with swarms the size of cities sweeping across countries including [read more…]
The death of Kenya’s former President Daniel arap Moi on 4 February 2020 drew mixed reactions from Kenyans – some remembered his 24-year rule as [read more…]
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