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Khoi Leaders Consider Amazon’s Planned HQ in South Africa as Desecration of ‘Ancestral Land’
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Controversy is dogging the latest project of the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon, as it prepares to set up its African headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa. Amazon would be the anchor tenant of the River Club—a nine-story business and residential complex with a hotel, […]
Youth Social Media Campaign Pushes Ghana Govt. to Reform
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — A silent generation of young Ghanaians seems to have found its voice. Joshua Boye-Doe, among the nation’s active social media users, put it this way: “This is the right time for us to come together as one people to speak and let [government] know that […]
Declining Power Supply Cripples Ivory Coast and Ghana Cocoa Economies
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — A prolonged dry season is being blamed for inadequate power supplies to West African countries from Ivory Coast to Ghana, Mali and Burkina Faso, threatening businesses and the world’s largest cocoa economies. Consumers, unions and business leaders in Ivory Coast are sounding the alarm about […]
Bandits Constrain Nigeria to Seeks Return of ‘Africom’
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Early Pentagon plans for a US military command based in Africa were once firmly rejected by almost every country on the continent. African governments were reluctant to associate themselves with America’s “war on terror” and fearful of US intervention. Libya and Algeria both refused to […]
Confronting Misinformation and Harmful News Content
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — News of working journalists in Africa is often a tale of threats, abduction, forced disappearance and arrest. Most recently, two Spanish journalists and an Irish national were abducted near a nature reserve in Burkina Faso. Government officials confirmed their deaths on April 2. It remains […]
Pres. Ramaphosa Says ANC Party Did Little to Thwart Corruption
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — In riveting testimony before a South African commission investigating corruption and graft, President Cyril Ramaphosa acknowledged that the ruling ANC party did little to prevent corruption, including by his predecessor Jacob Zuma. “State capture and corruption have taken a great toll on our society and […]
Uganda President’s Son Led Elite Force Linked to Rights Abuses
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Senior military commanders, including the son of President Yoweri Museveni, have been named in a case before the International Criminal Court for a wave of abductions and torture—adding new charges to claims levelled by opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi, the former reggae singer known as Bobi […]
Mozambique In Search of Political and Economic Security
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW (IDN) — While speaking during a signing ceremony of an agreement formalising World Bank support of US$100 million assistance to the affected districts, Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi unreservedly reiterated his detailed plan to enforce nation-wide security by cracking down on the militant groups who have been staging attacks in parts […]
South African Lawyers Sue Uber Car Service Seeking Employee Rights
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — South African law firm Mbuyisa Moleele Attorneys is partnering with lawyers at Lehigh Day, a UK law firm, to launch a class action in South Africa against the ride-hailing firm Uber. The case on behalf of drivers would recognize them as employees with benefits, rather […]