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Caught in the Trump-China feud, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the leader of the World Health Organization, is under siege. The U.S. offensive against the WHO has shaken its director-general at an already difficult time for the United Nations-affiliated health agency as it seeks to coordinate a global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO insiders and diplomats …
Throughout this in-depth report, Africawatch reveals how the clandestine mission by the government to kill uniBank actually unfolded. We take readers through the destructive actions undertaken by the Ministry of Finance, headed by Ken Ofori-Atta, the Bank of Ghana, led by Dr. Ernest Addison, and the Official Administrator/ Receiver, KPMG, headed by Nii Amanor Dodoo, …
The COVID-19 epidemic has taken the lives of several hundred Africans including some of the continent’s prominent figures, and left the people with so many broken hearts and too much pain. Here are brief profiles of some of the victims of the coronavirus pandemic that will always be remembered. Manu Dibango Soul Makossa’ saxophonist Manu …
There is still a great deal that’s not known about the coronavirus. Neelaveni Padayachee and Lisa Claire du Toit report that this limited scientific information has contributed to a slew of myths and misconceptions. Some claims being made are harmless. Others can be potentially dangerous. They present here some misconceptions doing the rounds in Africa …
China’s official discourse in Africa has always been portrayed as either a “win-win” or an “all-weather” friendship. But recent racist events in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, which is home to the largest African immigrant population in Asia, has changed the whole terrain. Shamed, Beijing has increased its diplomatic efforts in Africa to repair the …
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If one followed the plight of the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in detention in Libya only by the publicity coming from the United Nations, one might believe that the European Union funding to control migrants from landing on the shores of Europe was working. You would be fatally wrong. Instead, that financial support …