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Nigeria warns against ‘Minecraft approach’ in trade with Africa

Nigeria is less affected by U.S. tariffs compared to other countries due to its diversified trade strategy, the West African country’s foreign...

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, Ghana’s former first lady and human rights activist, dies at age 76

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, former first lady of the West African country Ghana, is being remembered as an activist and women’s advocate by many around...

Building a bridge between Dakar and the city of Philadelphia

Recently, the United Muslim Business Association (UMBA) partnered with GlobalAfricans.com and hosted a celebratory gathering for Madame Khadija Mechecor Diouf, mayor of the Golf...

African nations’ challenge to take charge of their mineral wealth amid debt and exploitation

The U.S., its European partners, with their neoliberal free-market capitalism tactics, are in a race for the Global South’s, mainly Africa’s, critical minerals. China...

South African activists on Gaza flotilla claim harsh treatment by Israel over genocide case

JOHANNESBURG—Six South African activists who were detained by Israel while attempting to reach Gaza as part of an aid flotilla said Oct. 8 they were subjected...

African state uncovers ‘espionage network’

Burkina Faso’s government has detained the leaders of an NGO over claims of illicit intelligence gathering. Burkina Faso’s government has arrested eight workers for a...

While denying humanitarian aid to Gazans, Israel is now making moves in Africa

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar visited Zambia to cap Israel’s steadily growing ties between the two countries and to mark what is being called,...

France’s exploitation of African nations and the fight against imperialism

During the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s 2015 Saviours’ Day address, “The Intensifying Universal Cry For Justice,” he gave special mention to France and its...

The case of Steve Biko and the problem with focusing on White folks in post-apartheid South Africa

It was recently announced that South Africa is reopening the inquest into the death of South Africa’s anti-apartheid freedom fighter and Black Consciousness Movement...

Three African states quit ICC

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), denouncing the Hague-based tribunal as an instrument of imperialist “neocolonial...