By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Following an exhaustive review of petitions submitted by the opposition, judges of the Malawian Constitutional Court ruled against Peter Mutharika whose presidential victory in May 2019 was attributed to massive fraud. Veteran diplomat Vernon Mwaanga of neighboring Zambia said the Court raised the bar for […]
Incoming African Union Chief Announces End of Colonialism
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – A stirring call to action was delivered this week in the august hall of the African Union (AU) headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, spoken by the incoming AU president Cyril Ramaphosa to distinguished members of the continental a continental union consisting of 55 member states […]
Nigerians Seeking Visas to Settle in the US Face New Hurdles
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – She’s your pediatrician. He’s your surgeon. She’s a civil engineer. He has a doctorate. She’s an Emmy Award winner. He was a Chicago Bear. They’re Nigerian-Americans who have set down roots in Dallas, Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, Phoenix and Houston – the latter of which has […]
A ‘Green’ Message Shakes Up the Industry at Mining Confab
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – After years of defending dirty extractive industries such as the mining of coal, large mining companies seemed to have switched sides and joined the Greens, or so it seemed at the African Mining Indaba held from February 3-6 in South Africa. At the Indaba, the […]
African Union Campaigning to Achieve Peace and End Conflict
By Zipporah Musau, Africa Renewal NEW YORK (IDN) – Realising a conflict-free Africa is the dream of every African. In this edition, we highlight the current hotspots; the root causes of conflicts; the various efforts in search of peaceful co-existence and development and the African Union’s quest for silencing the guns by 2020. In 2013 African Union […]
Shantytowns Housing Thousands Demolished in Ivory Coast
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Bulldozers have begun demolishing homes built in the shantytowns of Abidjan, the commercial capital of the Ivory Coast, leaving thousands without shelter as authorities carry out plans to build a buffer zone around an international airport. This comes as large numbers of Ivorians are leaving […]
Emergency World Bank Meeting on Tanzania Focuses on Women’s Rights
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) –The World Bank’s executive board cancelled expected action on a $500 million loan to Tanzania where teenage girls can be expelled from school because they are pregnant. The Bank had been under pressure from rights activists and held a last-minute emergency meeting on January 27 with […]
New Currency Stemmed as Six West African Countries Object
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – French-speaking countries will have to put the cork back in the champagne bottle after six member countries of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) comprising Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, have rejected the adoption of ‘Eco’ as the name of the proposed […]
Morocco Fails to Mobilize Rural Communities to Advance SDGs
Viewpoint by Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir The writer is a sociologist and president of the High Atlas Foundation, a Moroccan-U.S. not-for-profit organization dedicated to sustainable development in Morocco. MARRAKECH (IDN) – In recent years, Morocco has put in place the right frameworks for mobilizing rural communities to advance the nation’s Sustainable development Goals (SDGs), yet it […]
Tanzania Passes Law on HIV Self-Test to Tame the Deadly Virus
15-Year Old Children Can Self-Test Without Parental Consent By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (IDN) – Perched on a plastic chair at his shop in the bustling Sinza suburb in Dar es Salaam, Abdul* is anxiously looking at a small kit containing liquid and a stick. “I want to know my HIV status,” says […]