Presidents of South Sudan and Kenya push for a resolution in stalled peace talks
JUBA, South Sudan—South Sudan peace talks, previously held in neighboring Kenya, will resume under a directive from President Salva Kiir and his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto, who...
Africans observing, monitoring U.S. presidential election
Political analysts and observers in Africa are monitoring the 2024 U.S. presidential election and understand regardless of the outcome, many of America’s foreign policies...
African defense chiefs meet to discuss rising tensions
African defense ministers met in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, for a conference on security and peace at a time when several of the continent’s...
World maps distort true size of the African continent
Since the colonial period, maps of Africa served two main purposes: to identify the demarcation of European colonies and to falsely show the continent’s...
Western powers use debt to hold sway over their former colonial empire
The tragic history of being saddled with debt repayments has meant African nations are encouraged and are often forced to “prioritize debt repayments over...
Solar power companies are growing fast in Africa as 600 million still lack electricity
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone—Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the...
The dangers of Western plans to extract Africa’s raw mineral reserves
In a piece in the November/December 2024 edition of Foreign Affairs, headlined, “America’s Strategy of Renewal: Rebuilding Leadership for a New World,” U.S. Secretary...
‘Broad impunity persists’ for law enforcement violations against Africans and people of African descent: rights experts
Africans and people of African descent who have encountered human rights violations by law enforcement officials rarely receive justice as authorities are not held...
Is U.S. State Department returning to Cold War soft power influence peddling?
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his State Department are taking a page out of America’s past Cold War tensions with the Union...
Another African nation interested in joining BRICS
Membership presents an opportunity to challenge the dominance of the dollar and euro, the Burkinabe prime minister says Prime Minister of Burkina Faso Apollinaire Joachim...