By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Dozens of former soldiers who performed illegal services for Angola’s ex-president Jose Eduardo dos Santos received jail terms for up to 14 years for fraud and embezzlement in a closely-watched high profile mass corruption trial. In addition to the soldiers who went on trial in […]
Chris Hani’s Killer Stays Behind Bars After Stabbing Incident Holds Up Parole
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — South Africa’s Dept. of Correctional Services has confirmed “an unfortunate stabbing incident” involving the killer of anti-apartheid hero Chris Hani. The right-wing Polish-born Janusz Walus survived the incident but his scheduled release on parole is no longer confirmed. The office of the justice minister confirmed […]
Thousands Turn Out for Pride Parade in South Africa
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | JOHANNESBURG (IDN) — With the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, over three thousand people turned out for a joyous gay Pride Parade in Johannesburg despite a warning by the U.S. embassy of a potential terrorist attack. LGBTQ activists cheered the resumption of the event after two years, […]
London Museums to Return Human Remains Stolen from Zimbabwe
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | LONDON (IDN) — The era of European museums claiming ownership of the bones and skulls of African war heroes stolen years ago may finally be coming to an end. A negotiated settlement to return African remains involved London’s Natural History Museum and Cambridge University. The two […]
Disease-Resistant GM Cassava Promises to Be Game-Changer for Kenya
By Joseph Maina Alliance for Science issued this article, and it is being republished with their permission. NAIROBI, Kenya (IDN) — At the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) centre in Mtwapa, Kenya, scientist Paul Kuria uproots two sets of cassava tubers exposed to the devastating cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). One of the […]
Worse Flooding in A Decade Takes 600 Lives in Southern Nigeria
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | ABUJA (IDN) — Flooding in the southern and coastal states of Nigeria has taken the lives of more than 600 people, displaced 1.4 million and destroyed roads and farmlands. Officials warn that the situation could continue into November. Thirty-one of Nigeria’s 36 states have been affected […]
Nigerian Court Acquits Biafran Separatist Leader
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | ABUJA (IDN) — In a surprise development, Nigeria’s Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has exonerated the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, saying his extradition by force from Kenya and his subsequent arrest by Nigerian authorities had been illegal. Kanu, leader of […]
Africa: Let Us Not Leave Rising Hunger as Our Legacy
Viewpoint by Abebe Haile-Gabriel The writer is the Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It was published in Horn Observer on October 13, ahead of World Food Day on October 16. ACCRA (IDN) — More than a billion Africans cannot afford a healthy diet. Africa […]
Peace Foundation Leader Asks: “Is the US Leading the War on Tigray?”
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — The disastrous war in the Horn of Africa is being guided secretly by the US, according to briefings reported by the World Peace Foundation (WPF), a philanthropic foundation for research into peace processes affiliated with Massachusetts-based Fletcher School of Law. The year-long conflict in Ethiopia […]
ANC Youth League Defends Support for Referendum in Occupied Ukraine
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — South Africa’s ANC Youth League is facing sharp criticism for endorsing Russia’s referenda in occupied parts of Ukraine, which many countries have dismissed as unacceptable, in violation of the United Nations Charter and illegal under international law. The referenda were designed to pave the way […]