By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | LILONGWE (IDN) – In a landmark presidential rerun, Malawi’s sitting President has been ousted from power after a sweeping victory by a popular Pentecostal preacher and former theology lecturer who promised to unite and serve all Malawians. ” want to provide leadership that makes everybody prosper, […]
UN Senior African Officials ‘Outraged’ at Systemic Racism and Police Brutality
By Caroline Mwanga NEW YORK (IDN) – Twenty-two United Nations senior African officials who hold the rank of Under-Secretary-General have in their “personal capacity” signed “Joint Reflections” on the last few weeks of protests at the killing of George Floyd in the hands of police, which they say in no uncertain terms have left them […]
Ethiopian Gold Mine Leaves Deadly Toxic Waste Trail in Prime Minister’s Home Town
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – A gold mine in Ethiopia’s most populous and restive region, Oromia, has been anything but a blessing. Residents claim that contamination from the mine, owned by an Ethiopia-born Saudi tycoon, has led to disastrous health problems. Locals say chemicals used to process gold at the […]
COVID-19 in Africa: WHO Urges Constant Vigilance as Cases Top 200,000
By Jamshed Baruah GENEVA (IDN) – At present, Africa has an only small fraction of more than 7.5 million COVID-19 affected people, nearly 423,000 of whom have died because of the Coronavirus worldwide. The virus has affected about 200,000 people on the 54-nation continent and killed 5,600. “Swift and early action by African countries has […]
Capping Week of Protests, UK Activists Topple Slave Trader’s Statue
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Years of inaction over the fate of an 18-foot statue of Edward Colston, a 17th century slave trader with the Royal African Company (RAC) was decided on June 7 with the toppling of Colston’s bronze statue in Bristol, England. The statue was pulled down by […]
On ‘Unification Day’, Hopes Dim Among Liberians for Mending National Ties
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | MONROVIA (IDN) – Decades after Liberians agreed to close the chapter on years of disunity and nagging inequality between groups of African-American settlers and indigenous Liberians, efforts to solidify the nation’s fragile state of peace appear to have deadlocked. At a National Unification Day conference in […]
Africa Can Still Be on the Top
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) – Africa is suffering a double whammy after many years of success. The Coronavirus, while not taking down great numbers of people like in Europe, Asia and the Americas, has had a severe impact by curbing its exports in the face of the formers’ severe economic depression. For […]
On the Run Rwanda Genocide Suspect Nabbed in French Hideout
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Twenty-six years after financing the Rwandan genocide, wealthy businessman and most wanted fugitive, Felicien Kabuga, was nabbed in an upscale French hideout. It was a relief for prosecutors of the Rwandan Genocide tribunal who feared the 84-year-old Kabuga could die a free man. He stands […]
Massive Die-Off of Fish on Nigerian Coastline Linked to Toxic Discharge
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – An immense blanket of dead fish stretching across three states has sparked anger and frustration among communities along the Atlantic Ocean coastline in Nigeria. The area is known for oil spills that have polluted the waters and left fish and other wildlife inedible. The massive […]
Burundi Threatens to Deal a Severe Blow to UN Reputation
Viewpoint by Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis Paula Donovan and Stephen Lewis are Co-Directors of AIDS-Free World and its Code Blue Campaign, which seeks to end impunity for sexual offences by UN personnel. NEW YORK (IDN) – It is a matter of extreme urgency that Burundi’s presidential, legislative, and local elections, scheduled for May 20, […]