April 23, 2014
Africa: Asking Africans About Democracy
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Where in Africa is support for democracy the highest? Where is it the lowest? Who believes they are reaping its fruits? Who doesn't? Read more »
Africa: Africans Now Back Institutions More Than 'Big Men' - Afrobarometer [document]
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Excerpts from Afrobarometer's report, Demand for Democracy Is Rising in Africa, But Most Political Leaders Fail to Deliver: Read more »
April 17, 2014
Africa: World's Media Chiefs Press African Leaders on Freedoms
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Editors and publishers from across the world have singled out the governments of Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa and Swaziland for threatening free expression and media freedom. Read more »
Africa: U.S. Private, Public Sectors Step Up to Power Challenge [guest column]
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My grandmother spent her whole life in southern Ethiopia and passed away a few years ago without ever having switched on a light. I also spent much of my early life in Africa,… Read more »
April 16, 2014
Ethiopia: Stop Arresting Journalists, Say World Editors, Publishers [document]
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The text of a resolution of the General Assembly of the International Press Institute calling on the Ethiopian government to review its use of anti-terrorism laws against… Read more »
South Africa: Press Leaders Struggled to Get Visas for Congress [document]
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The text of a resolution of the General Assembly of the International Press Institute expressing deep concern that South African diplomatic missions were obstructive in responding… Read more »
South Africa: Send 'Secrecy Bill' for Court Review, Says IPI [document]
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The text of a resolution of the General Assembly of the International Press Institute calling on South Africa's president to send the 'secrecy bill' for constitutional review: Read more »
Eswatini: IPI Calls On Swazi Govt to Free Editor [document]
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The text of a resolution of the General Assembly of the International Press Institute calling on Swaziland's government to drop charges against jailed editor and human rights… Read more »
April 13, 2014
Africa: From North to South, East to West, Media Freedom in Africa Under Challenge [document]
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The executive director of the International Press Institute (IPI), Alison Bethel McKenzie, delivered a wide-ranging report on press freedom in the world to the institute's world… Read more »
April 12, 2014
Nigeria: President Has Failed, APC Ready to Lead - Tinubu [interview]
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Nigeria's election next February will be the first nationwide two-party contest since the end of military rule in 1999. The emergence last year of the All Progressives Congress… Read more »
April 09, 2014
Africa: World Bank Seminars to be Streamed Live
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A series of seminars focusing on key issues affecting Africa's development will be held in Washington, DC, this week - and streamed live on the web - to coincide with the World… Read more »
April 07, 2014
Nigeria: Memorandum on Security Challenges in Borno & Yobe States [document]
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We are all members of the Borno and Yobe States Peoples Forum who actively participated in the preparation of the Press conference held in Abuja on 30th March 2014. The message of… Read more »
April 05, 2014
Nigeria: Borno-Yobe Forum Questions Security Forces on 'Continuous Bloodletting' [document]
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Presentation by the Borno-Yobe People's Forum at the World Press Conference on the Crises in the North East Held on 31st March 2014 at Barcelona Hotel, Abuja Read more »
April 02, 2014
Ghana: Student Accepted to All Ivy League Schools in U.S.
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A New York high school student whose family immigrated to the United States from Ghana has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools in the U.S, according to CNN. Read more »
April 01, 2014
Africa: Young Leaders Have Hope for Africa [guest column]
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Hundreds of people packed a Congressional committee room last week to see a panel of young leaders discuss their ideas for positive change across Africa. Read more »
March 31, 2014
Mali: Malians Show Dramatic Leap in Confidence
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The return of democracy and peace to much of Mali has generated a complete turnaround in public confidence in the country's future, according to a new opinion survey. Read more »
Africa: Europe and Africa - Crocodiles With One Stomach [guest column]
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Two heads, one stomach? This is how a former minister described Africa-Europe relations last month, using the West African metaphor of an Adinkra crocodile to say both continents… Read more »
South Africa: 'I Never Did Anything Wrong' - Zuma
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President Jacob Zuma has responded to the controversy over the spending of U.S. $23 million in government money on his private country estate by declaring: "I never did anything… Read more »
March 26, 2014
Africa: Top Africa Think-Tank Pushes Reform - ECA's Carlos Lopes [interview]
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The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) drives Africa's political and economic agenda, along with the African Union – the 54-member organization of African… Read more »
March 24, 2014
Egypt: Court Sentences 529 Mursi Supporters to Death
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AFP reports that 529 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi have been sentenced to death during a mass trial. Read more »
March 21, 2014
Ghana: Akufo-Addo Announces Plan to Run for President
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Opposition politician Nana Akufo-Addo, who narrowly lost Ghana's last election to President John Dramani Mahama, has announced that he will be seeking his party's nomination for… Read more »
Mozambique: The Bishop Who Smashed Guns At the Altar [interview]
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The longest-serving Anglican bishop in the world, Bishop Dinis Sengulane of Lebombo, a church diocese which covers southern Mozambique, is to retire after nearly four decades… Read more »
March 20, 2014
Liberia: War Refugees Rebuilding Liberia - Gyude Moore
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Only 10 years ago, Liberia began to emerge from a quarter-century of instability, punctuated by what Liberians call World Wars I and II. The names reflect the lived realities of… Read more »
Africa: Stolen Funds Dwarf Development Aid - Mbeki [interview]
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The illicit flow of money out of Africa is at least double what the continent receives from development assistance, according to conservative estimates. Large corporations are… Read more »
March 18, 2014
Somalia: Piracy Declines Dramatically, Report Insurers
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Somali piracy could be eliminated within a few years if foreign navies continue their patrols off the country's coast, reports a major insurance company. Read more »
