In April 2018, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, said that Ghana has “not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the United Read More..
Political and Social Commentary
Local Communities in Senegal Demand the Return of their Land Acquired by US Firm
As US-based holding company African Agriculture Inc. (AAGR) has filed an initial public offering to fund a large-scale agribusiness project in the northern region of Saint-Louis in Senegal, local communities Read More..
Commonwealth in Kigali: another chance for Rwanda’s Kagame to project soft power
Image Source After the second world war, the United Kingdom dropped the use of terms like “British Empire” and “Imperial”. As each colony, protectorate or mandate gained independence it was Read More..
Is this the end of the French project in Africa’s Sahel?
Image Source On May 15, 2022, the military junta in Mali announced that it would no longer be part of the G5 Sahel platform. The G5 Sahel was created in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Read More..
Disease control centre confirms monkeypox ‘outbreak’ in Nigeria? No, headline misleading
“Nigeria confirms outbreak of Monkeypox with 558 cases and eight deaths,” reads the headline of an article in the Guardian, a Nigerian newspaper, on 10 May 2022. Its first paragraph adds that the Nigeria Centre for Read More..
Flawed Plans for Relocation of the Maasai from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Image Source Flawed Plans for Relocation of the Maasai from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area builds on field research conducted at two relocation sites — Msomera village in Handeni district and Kitwai Read More..