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20, March 2019
France and U.S. Striking Different Notes In Africa 0
There were smiles all around in Kenya as French President Emmanuel Macron and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta shook hands over a series of infrastructure deals worth $3.3 billion. It was the third stop on the French president’s East African charm offensive – and the first-ever visit to Kenya by a French head of state. France […]
20, March 2019
Democrats push for ending Electoral College to prevent Trump triumph in 2020 0
Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the many Democrats running for 2020 US presidential election, has joined a partisan push to scrap the Electoral College, the constitutional entity tasked with electing US presidents, in order to prevent President Donald Trump from repeating his controversial 2016 victory. The current election system in the US overrides the popular […]
19, March 2019
Southern Cameroons Crisis: US Diplomat Reminds Biya of his long stay in power 0
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor Nagy, who met with Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, used the meeting to send home many messages to Africa’s oldest and longest serving president. While passing on messages from the Trump Administration to Mr. Biya, the diplomacy-savvy and straight-talking American handed Mr. Biya a picture of […]
19, March 2019
Koffi Olomide found guilty of sexual assault in France 0
Popular Congolese musician Koffi Olomide was on Monday handed a two-year suspended prison sentence for the statutory rape of one of his former dancers when she was 15. Olomide went on trial after four former dancers claimed he sexually assaulted them several times between 2002 and 2006. The assaults allegedly happened in the Democratic Republic […]
19, March 2019
Southern Cameroons Crisis: American diplomat talks straight to Biya 0
The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor Nagy, yesterday in Yaounde had a straight talk with the country’s president, Paul Biya, on the Southern Cameroons crisis which he qualified as “unnecessary”. During the meeting with Mr. Biya, the American diplomat urged the president to embrace the frank and inclusive dialogue proposed by […]
19, March 2019
Death toll in Mozambique cyclone could surpass 1,000 0
The number of people killed in a powerful storm and preceding floods in Mozambique could exceed 1,000, the president says, putting the potential death toll greatly more than current figures. Only 84 deaths have been confirmed so far in Mozambique as a result of Cyclone Idai, which has also left a trail of death and […]
19, March 2019
Iranian hybrid taxis join Senegal fleet 0
Iran has delivered as many as 30 hybrid vehicles to Senegal to be used in the country’s taxi fleet. The ceremony for handing over the taxicabs was held at the Blaise Diagne International Airport in western Senegal. It was joined by Senegal’s Minister of Air Transport and Development of Airport Infrastructures, Maimouna Ndoye Seck. The […]
18, March 2019
US Assistant Secretary Visit: Pro Biya groups protest “interference” in Cameroon’s internal affairs 0
As the top U.S. diplomat for Africa visits Cameroon, pro-government groups are protesting what they call Tibor Nagy’s interference in Cameroon’s internal affairs. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Nagy and the European Union representative Federica Mogherini recently called on Cameroon to free opposition leader Maurice Kamto and 150 of his supporters. They […]
18, March 2019
Should we worry about genocide in Southern Cameroons? 0
Cameroon has been making headlines as another hot spot of instability in Africa. This time, the conflict is along linguistic and cultural lines, between the Francophone majority in the country, who comprise over 80 percent of the population and dominate politics, administration, education, professions and the military, and the Anglophone minority in the western provinces […]
20, March 2019
Africa’s “PRESIDENT FOR LIFE” trend continues as Museveni seeks reelection 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, Politics
n September 2017, lawmakers from Uganda’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), President Yoweri Museveni’s party, introduced a bill to abolish a constitutional provision that bars anyone 75 or older from running for president. Two years on, the same lawmakers have unanimously endorsed the president to continue his tenure. If approved by the National Executive Committee and the […]