China is increasing its state-backed media presence in Africa in an effort to increase its soft power. The soft-power approach is a compliment to China’s growing business influence in a continent that is now more than $143bn in debt to...
Nigeria has closed its borders, following the examples of Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan and Eritrea. On March 21 2018, the African Continental Free Trade Movement was signed. The agreement was designed to strengthen the continent from the inside, without Africa’s previous...
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.” For women in Saudi Arabia, there is no maze. There is only a dark room. On October 9, women in Saudi Arabia...
At least 10 people were killed in an artisanal gold mine collapse in Burkina Faso last week. The collapse occurred in Sideradougou, Western Burkina Faso on the 14th, in a region that sees frequent “deadly” landslides. “About 10 bodies have...
Ritual child sacrifice is a growing problem in Uganda, with many children killed, and hundreds more missing yearly. “Child ritual murder is one of the most extreme manifestations of violence against children in Uganda. This gruesome practice involves mutilation and...
One in four people will be African by 2050. Global population is predicted to rise to between 9-10 billion people by 2050. More than half of these will come from Africa. By 2050, half of the world (except the USA)...
Cameroonian separatists have sworn to keep fighting until they are “free”, despite a “National Dialogue” hosted last week to propose measures to reunite the country. Under new proposals, the country would be renamed the “United Republic of Cameroon”, reunifying Anglophone...
African leaders must decline attending “begging meetings” in Japan, China and the rest of the world, a Kenyan professor has said. Professor Makau Mutua, the board chair of the Kenyan Human Rights Commission, labelled the 7th Tokyo International Conference on...
More than 50 African leaders have been invited to take part in the first Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi. Co-chaired by Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egypt (who also chairs the African Union) the event...
Cameroon has discovered 300 new mineral mines, in a project sponsored by the World Bank. The Mining Sector Capacity Building Project funded the discovery of rich minerals, including gold, sapphire, zinc, rare earth minerals, uranium, nickel and manganese, across ten...
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