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Fifty-eight years after African leaders rejected Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah’s radical African-union project, Europeans, via the European Union, have implemented all the nine proposals Nkrumah made in 1963, including a common currency and the ability for citizens to cross borders without a passport. At home in Africa, however, it has been more talk than action: …
Assailants armed with machine guns and AK-47s attacked Guinea-Bissau’s government palace for hours on February 1 while the president and prime minister were inside, but the coup attempt ultimately failed, the president announced. The foiled attack came only about two weeks after a military junta overthrew the democratically elected leader of Burkina Faso, underscoring fears …
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has urged UN Security Council reforms that would give Africa permanent representation there, saying such changes would prevent “aggression against Africa.” Museveni spoke at a meeting Jan. 20 attended by high-ranking officials representing 10 of the African Union’s 55 members. The meeting is the latest in a series focusing on changes at the …
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has opened a new vaccine manufacturing facility that he says will boost the country’s capacity to make its own inoculations for COVID-19 and other diseases. The NantSA plant in Cape Town – a partnership among the U.S.-based biotechnology firm NantWorks, the government, and South African universities – will help improve Africa’s ability to produce vaccines, Ramaphosa said Jan. 19. “The pandemic has …
At least 2.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines donated to African countries have expired, the Africa Centers for Disease Control said Jan. 20, citing short shelf lives as the major reason. To be realistic, donors of vaccines to the continent should send them about “three months to six months” before their expiration, Africa CDC director …
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The Islamic extremist insurgency in northeast Nigeria is a “very, very dangerous” crisis, and the country needs more than $1 billion in aid in 2022 to assist those hit by the decade-long conflict, United Nations humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said. Speaking to the Associated Press, Griffiths, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian …
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The committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize has appealed to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won the award in 2019, to halt the conflict unfolding in the country’s northern region of Tigray. In a rare criticism of a former laureate, the Norwegian Nobel committee said Abiy had special responsibility to bring the fighting that broke out in late 2020 to …
Gambian President Adama Barrow on January 19 pledged to work to jump-start the economy and ensure broad-based development gains as he was sworn in for a second five-year term in office. Barrow, 56, came to power in 2017 by unseating his autocratic predecessor, Yahya Jammeh, at the polls. He comfortably won re-election last month with …
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Thousands of people demonstrated in the Malian capital Bamako on January 14 against sanctions imposed by neighboring countries on the transitional military government for trying to extend its hold on power. People poured into Independence Square holding up signs saying “Down with ECOWAS” and “Down with France,” to protest restrictions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States …
More than a dozen mutinous Burkina Faso soldiers declared Jan. 25 on state television that a military junta had seized control of the West African nation’s government after detaining democratically elected President Roch Marc Christian Kabore following a day of gun battles in Ouagadougou, the capital. The coup in a nation that was once a …