Category: Africa

No to African Human Rights

African and Asia-Pacific countries are increasingly opposed to resolutions on human rights issues on the African continent, according to findings by two nongovernmental organizations.

More Countries Are Voting ‘No’ on Advancing Human Rights in Africa

Africa human rights Kasmira Jefford

Empire by Invitation

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (L) and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attend a  welcoming ceremony before talks at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on September 15, 2022. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Forty-nine African leaders convened in Washington for the U.S.-Africa summit, the first such gathering hosted by the U.S. since 2014. At the Peace, Security, and Governance panel on December 13, Presidents Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia, and Mohamed Bazoum of Niger joined African Union Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat in appealing for more U.S. security and counterterrorism aid.

Source: Empire by Invitation

If Covid-19 is not beaten in Africa it will return to haunt us all | Free to read       | Financial Times

Ethiopia's Prime minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during a press conference at his office in Addis Ababa, on August 25, 2018. (Photo by Michael Tewelde / AFP)MICHAEL TEWELDE/AFP/Getty Images

It’s something Capitalists don’t seem to get and what’s worse don’t want to (ODT)

If Covid-19 is not beaten in Africa it will return to haunt us all | Free to read       | Financial Times

Responsible Action

Africa has been failed by westernisation. It must cast off its subservience | Chigozie Obioma | Opinion | The Guardian

Illustration by Thomas Pullin.

Africa has been failed by westernisation. It must cast off its subservience | Chigozie Obioma | Opinion | The Guardian

Everyday Eritrea: Resilience in the face of repression – Al Jazeera English

From macchiato in Asmara to Ottoman ruins in Massawa, a glimpse into the essence of Eritrea.

Source: Everyday Eritrea: Resilience in the face of repression – Al Jazeera English

Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia – Al Jazeera English

Ethiopia hosts the highest number of refugees in Africa, a large number of whom are fleeing neighbouring Eritrea.

Source: Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia – Al Jazeera English

Cameroon army frees 900 Boko Haram hostages, kills 100 militants in raid – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Cameroon’s army says it has killed at least 100 members of the militant Islamist Boko Haram group and freed 900 people it had held hostage.

Source: Cameroon army frees 900 Boko Haram hostages, kills 100 militants in raid – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)