Africa and China’s growing alliance and the de-Westernization of the continent
China’s new foreign minister Qin Gang made his first trip abroad January 9-16 to the continent of Africa. His trip comes amid changes in...
Will South Africa’s president survive ‘Farmgate’ until national elections?
South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, an anti-apartheid figure—once suggested as Nelson Mandela’s successor to the presidency—has been mired in a scandal that involves undeclared...
Controversy ignites as comedian Kevin Hart says Blacks were kings in Egypt
“History is above all our studies the most attractive and best qualified to reward our research. As it develops the springs and motives of...
Blackouts in South Africa and recent summit designed to destabilize continent, says analyst
During a wide-ranging interview with Africa Watch, Redge Nkosi, the Pretoria-based founder and executive director of First Source Money and Public Banking of South...
A year of challenges and opportunities in Africa
Africa will be remembered in 2022 as the year of the “Sirens of apocalypse: UN climate report warns of worst to come.” Adding insult...
Some observers wary of the deal between Sudan’s military and civilian political parties
Knee-deep in Sudanese political formulations is how I’m defining my 2021-2022. While I’m writing this, my wife Zakia who is from Sudan, is appearing...
African groups discuss goals ahead of U.S.-Africa summit
A collective of organizations met days ahead of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit to discuss several pressing crises on the African continent that they said...
Progress of West African nations must be forged through cooperative economics
Last month Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja, called on member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to remove what...
Sudan’s military regime wants U.S. support for stability, but at what cost?
Sudan is geo-strategically important to the United States’ interests in both Africa and the Middle East. The country’s military rulers are the October 2021...
Sudanese protesters call for end to foreign interference
Sudanese protesters have called for the expulsion of the United Nation’s representative to Sudan and a stop to foreign interference in the country’s internal...