By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — At a state visit to Switzerland last year, Ghana’s president, Nana Akufo-Addo put his cards on the table. The second-largest cocoa producer would no longer ship the raw material to Switzerland if by doing so, it would trap the country in poverty for the next […]
US Think Tanks Consider Nigeria ‘A Failed Nation’
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Over 200 people were killed in violent attacks across Nigeria last week, as the insecurity across the country continues despite the efforts of security agencies. Over the same period of time, no fewer than 137 people were abducted across the country. The figures were gathered […]
Nigerian Preacher’s Sudden Death Stuns Scores of His Followers
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — “Time for everything—time to come here for prayer and time to return home after the service.” With those words, Nigerian preacher TB Joshua, one of Africa’s most influential televangelists, ended his final sermon on Emmanuel TV, the broadcast arm of his megachurch. His death was […]
Afwerki’s Regime in Eritrea Has Been a Malign Influence in The Horn of Africa
Viewpoint by Daniel Haile* COLLEGE STATION, Texas | USA (IDN) — The Ethiopian government claims the conflict in Tigray is a law enforcement operation, but that is incorrect; it is a war involving the Ethiopian government, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), and the malign foreign influence of the Eritrean regime. The Eritrean regime in […]
Stop Treating Nigeria’s Southeast as Hostile Territory
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — Nigeria has been struggling with insecurity for over a decade. Against reasonable expectations six years ago when President Muhammadu Buhari was voted in, things have worsened.
A Zimbabwean Freelancer Being Held in The Overcrowded Bulawayo Central Prison
By CPJ NEW YORK (IDN | CPJ) — Zimbabwe authorities should not contest journalist Jeffrey Moyo’s appeal of a recent ruling denying him bail and should drop the criminal case against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on June 2. On May 31, a court in the city of Bulawayo denied Moyo’s bail […]
Ex-US Diplomat Reviews Africa’s Ties with China and Russia
Interview by Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW (IDN) — In this exclusive interview, Professor David Shinn, a former top U.S. diplomat and now an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs discusses a few significant points in his forthcoming book on China-Africa.
Macron Admits Responsibility for Rwanda Genocide—Mali Has an Interim President—Lesotho Factory Workers Clash with Police
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — French President Emmanuel Macron in a meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame acknowledged that France bears partial responsibility for the Rwandan genocide, a historic confession that could mark a watershed moment in the fragile relations between the two countries.
Call for Referring Conflict-related Sexual Violence to International Criminal Court
By Reinhard Jacobsen BRUSSELS (IDN) — The scale and brutality of crimes of conflict-related sexual violence against women committed in Tigray have drawn widespread condemnation from around the world. It was no surprise that the Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA) focussed on that theme in the Webinar organised on May 25. EEPA is a […]
Volcano Forces the Congolese to Flee—Anti-Jihadist Military Brass Die in A Plane Crash—Filmmaker Ladebo Passes Away
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — While thousands in Congo flee to Rwanda because of an erupting volcano, anti-jihadist military brass have died in a Nigerian plane crash, and Ladi Ladebo, early film collaborator with Ossie Davis, has passed away. An erupting mountain of fiery red flames from one of the […]