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Africa: VOA Exclusive – Africom Chief On Threats, Way Forward for Us Military in Africa

[ad_1] Pentagon — U.S. Africa Command chief Gen. Michael Langley is starting to reshape the U.S. military presence on the continent following the U.S. military withdrawal from Niger. Uncertainty about the next phase of the counter-terror fight in West Africa stems from America's lost access to two critical counter-terror bases in Niger. In the east, international participants and troop numbers for the new African Union Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) have yet to be finalized less than three months before the […]

todayOctober 3, 2024

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Africa: Washington – Ministerial Meeting of Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh Welcomes Role of Africa Focus Group, Co-Chaired By Morocco

[ad_1] Washington — The ministerial meeting commemorating the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh issued, Monday in Washington, a communiqué reaffirming the importance of the "Africa Focus Group" in the fight against terrorism in Africa. Co-chaired by Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Italy, this group plays a central role in coordinating regional efforts to counter terrorist threats on the continent. The communiqué also commends the work of the Global Coalition's Africa Focus […]

todayOctober 1, 2024

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Africa: Climate Change Has Deep Historical Roots – Amitav Ghosh Explores How Capitalism and Colonialism Fit in

[ad_1] Amitav Ghosh is an internationally celebrated author of 20 historical fiction and non-fiction books. The Indian thinker and writer has written extensively on the legacies of colonialism, violence and extractivism. His most famous works explore migration, globalisation and commercial violence and conquest during the colonial period, against the backdrop of the opium trade in the 1800s. Caroline Southey, from The Conversation Africa, asked economics professor Imraan Valodia and climate […]

todayAugust 30, 2024

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Africa: Global Poverty Grows As Super-Rich Get Richer Faster

[ad_1] Kuala Lumpur — Oxfam expects the world's first trillionaire within a decade and poverty to end in 229 years! The wealth of the world's five richest men has more than doubled from 2020, as 4.8 billion people became poorer. The 2024 Oxfam report entitled Inequality Inc. warned, "We're witnessing the beginnings of a decade of division" as billions cope with the "pandemic, inflation and war, while billionaires' fortunes boom". "This inequality is no accident; the billionaire class is ensuring […]

todayAugust 28, 2024

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Africa: Transnational Repression By Rwanda

[ad_1] Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing of February 15, 2024 Testimony of Lewis Mudge, Central Africa Director, Human Rights Watch Since the genocide, which devastated the country and claimed more than half a million lives in 1994, Rwanda has made great strides in rebuilding its infrastructure, developing its economy, and delivering public services. But civil and political rights remain severely curtailed, and freedom of expression is tightly restricted. Those who dare to criticize government policy or President Paul Kagame […]

todayFebruary 16, 2024

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Africa Progresses in Anti-Corruption Fight, Development . . . As US Slides Back Into More Vice

[ad_1] The current crop of African leaders has done a lot to fight corruption and those efforts should be commended while the assertion by US Government that Africa is getting more and more corrupt should be dismissed with the contempt it deserves. In Africa, current leaders have embraced anti-corruption drives and more and more senior government officials have been arrested, tried, convicted and jailed, others have been fined or fired. African governments have put in place anti-corruption institutions in their […]

todayFebruary 16, 2024

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Africa: Senegal’s Democracy Is in Peril

[ad_1] The looming danger of democratic collapse is a challenge to friends of Senegal and democracy to do better. The sudden actions by Senegal's president to postpone this month's presidential election by 10 months threaten to seriously undermine political stability and peace in a nation that has been a resilient democracy in West Africa, where multiple military coups d'état have occurred in recent years. This move poses risks of authoritarianism, violence and economic setbacks for Senegal's 17 million people, and […]

todayFebruary 15, 2024

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Africa: US Morality, Democracy and Good Governance a Mere Smokescreen Foible

[ad_1] It does not cease to amaze me how United States and its allies try to convince African men that it is wrong to marry more than one wife but right to marry another man. I can't dig it! I am wondering how this triviality has really become an issue that requires forcing governments to respect same sex marriages and relationships or have financial aide withdrawn, given that Africa has more serious issues to attend to than LGBTQ. If LGBTQ […]

todayFebruary 14, 2024

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Africa: The Kremlin’s Efforts to Spread Deadly Disinformation in Africa

[ad_1] Today, the U.S. Department of State's Global Engagement Center is exposing Russia's intelligence services for providing material support and guidance to "African Initiative," a new information agency focused on Africa-Russia relations that has spread disinformation regarding the United States and European countries. The Kremlin's disinformation campaign in Africa: In addition to its own staff, African Initiative recruits African journalists, bloggers, and members of local publics to support and amplify the organization's work of bolstering Russia's image and denigrating that […]

todayFebruary 13, 2024

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