Seattle, Sudan and unlikely similarities in autonomous zones, calls to end repression
In a tweet, President Trump threatened to “take back” the city of Seattle, Wash., after protesters responding to the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police camped out around a vacated police station near downtown. They have vowed to resist any Trump effort to dislodge them. This Capital Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, as it’s called,...
U.S. seeks to use Africa as pawn in war of influence against China and Russia
In a speech unveiling U.S. strategy to counter Chinese and Russian influence in Africa, National Security Advisor John Bolton, a “notorious hawk who advocates the unilateral wielding of U.S. might,” accused Beijing and Moscow of “deliberately and aggressively targeting their investments in the region to gain a competitive advantage over the United States.” Delivered at the American conservative public policy...
Pandemic shaping economic, social climate of East and Southern Africa
In many East and Southern African countries, local, regional and national lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic have been extended, reported Equinet. “Their impacts raise questions on their sustainability. The conversation inevitably turns to when and how countries will exit them. South Africa’s President Ramaphosa said recently in introducing their risk adjusted strategy: ‘We cannot sustain a nationwide lockdown...
Ethiopian rabbis win court victory in Israel, but struggle continues for Africans in the Zionist State
Sixteen Ethiopian rabbis recently won what is being touted as a landmark court case against discrimination in the Zionist State of Israel. In proceedings that spanned 12 years, the case was part of nearly 20 years of struggle by the clergymen against the state. Observers say the friction stems from years of Ethiopian Jews struggling to integrate into Israel since...
Pan-African solidarity in the midst of a crisis Final Call Covid-19, Africa forum unites experts across continent with audience in U.S.
WASHINGTON—According to recent figures published by Johns Hopkins University, over 2.7 million cases of Covid-19 have been detected worldwide, with 192,019 deaths and 752,148 people now recovered. In Africa, Nigeria has logged about 981 cases and 31 deaths; South Africa about 3,953 cases and 75 deaths; Ghana about 1,279 cases and 10 deaths and Kenya about 336 cases and 14 deaths. Those numbers may seem...
Pan-African solidarity in the midst of a crisis Final Call Covid-19, Africa forum unites experts across continent with audience in U.S.
Staff Writer @nisaislam WASHINGTON–According to recent figures published by Johns Hopkins University, over 2.7 million cases of Covid-19 have been detected worldwide, with 192,019 deaths and 752,148 people now recovered. In Africa, Nigeria has logged about 981 cases and 31 deaths; South Africa about 3,953 cases and 75 deaths; Ghana about 1,279 cases and 10 deaths and Kenya about...
Chinese racism against Africans in the midst of Beijing’s pandemic strategy
McDonald's in China recently apologized after a location in Guangzhou barred Black people from entering. In a video, a staff member while in the restaurant in question–held up a sign with words including, “We've been informed that from now on Black people are not allowed to enter the restaurant. For the sake of your health courteously notify the...
China shows COVID-19 can be ‘stopped in its tracks’
UNNEWS China's experience in containing the spread of the new coronavirus could serve as a lesson for other countries now facing the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior official with the World Health Organization told UN News in an in-depth interview. While more than 153,000 cases of the respiratory illness have been recorded globally as of March 15, it is on the...
‘The United States isn’t God!’
ASKIAM Senior Editor http://www.twitter.com/askiaphotojourn WASHINGTON–President Donald J. Trump's decision to attack demonstrators at the U.S. embassy in Iraq and then to authorize the assassination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani at the Baghdad International Airport on Jan. 3, was met with a fast and furious reaction, protests erupted in 90 cities, with more than 15,000 marchers, even as the long...
Growing African agriculture one ‘byte’ at a time
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe–Ella Mazani is a mobile phone farmer. “My mobile phone is part of my farming. It supports my farming and my family's welfare through the services I get via the phone,” the smallholder maize farmer from Shurugwi in central Zimbabwe quips. Ms. Mazani grows maize and finger millet and keeps livestock. As a farmer she often waits...