Nine Chinese sailors and eight Ukrainian seamen were kidnapped by pirates in attacks on two merchant ships off the coast of Cameroon. Seventeen people in total were abducted on the attack that took place on the 15th of August. A...
On April 11 2019, Sudan’s President, Omar al-Bashir, was forced from power after nearly thirty years as ruler. Al-Bashir’s government was an oppressive, surveillance state. His predecessor, Gaafar Nimeiry, acceded power in 1969, after a coup. Nimeiry remained in power...
Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli, known for his anti-corruption stance, but also his growing politically repressive, authoritarian regime, has called for a lift of “illegal” economic sanctions against Zimbabwe. Speaking at the end of the 39th Southern African Development Community (SADC)...
Human rights are not being upheld for migrants and refugees in Libya, with migrants alleging that they are tortured and kept in unsanitary conditions. On July 3, airstrikes on the well-known Tajoura Detention Centre in the country’s capital city, Tripoli,...
The UN predicts that global food security is currently in jeopardy, because of a high rise in global temperatures caused by climate change. Two million people Last year, more than 7,200 Central Americans from Honduras, Guatemala and El Savador began...
2019 is “The Year of the Return” for African migrants in the diaspora. On 28th September 2018, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo officially welcomed people of African descent, dispersed by the slave trade, back to Ghana, with a Pan Africanist...
China continues to seek out rare mineral resources in Africa to supply the country’s ever-growing consumption needs. By 2011, China’s investment in Africa’s mining industry had grown twenty-five times from 2011, reaching figures of $15.6 billion. As the world’s largest...
Zimbabwe has claimed it needs to sell its $300 million stockpile of ivory tusks. The government has claimed that recurrent droughts and natural habitats depleted by climate change have increased the strain on the nation to provide for its elephants....
At the 2018 China-Africa Cooperation forum, President Xi Jinping committed Africa and China to the future of globalisation, investing $60 billion in Africa’s financial and infrastructural development. President Xi’s investment aims to foster sustainable economic growth in Africa, with a...
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