By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and State Department say they will no longer issue visas for certain Ghanaians owing to a “lack of cooperation” by the West African nation – namely its refusal to accept 7,000 Ghanaian nationals that the U.S. wants to […]
Remembering Dumisani Kumalo, Anti-Apartheid Campaigner And South Africa’s Leading Diplomat
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – In an interview for the book No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists Over a Half Century, Dumisani Kumalo recalled the struggle to cut off the U.S. funds that were sustaining the apartheid government of South Africa. “I spoke to more than 1,000 campuses […]
Ghana Rolls Out The Red Carpet To Encourage Resettlement In The Motherland
By Benjamin Tetteh, Africa Renewal ACCRA (IDN-INPS) – In the heart of Accra, Ghana’s capital, just a few meters from the United States embassy, lie the tombs of W. E. B. Du Bois, a great African-American civil rights leader, and his wife, Shirley. The founder of the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored […]
Perils Of A Journey From Eritrea Through Libya To Europe
Migrants’ Search For Greener Pastures Carry Deadly Consequences By Franck Kuwonu and Louise Donavan This article first appeared on Africa Renewal, December 2018-March 2019 issue. NEW YORK | NIAMEY (IDN-INPS) – Alone in Niger, the young man sits, filled with regrets. “I didn’t necessarily want to come this far,” he says with anguish. “Khartoum may have […]
Suspension Of Top Judge Casts A Dark Shadow Over Forthcoming Elections In Nigeria
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | LAGOS (IDN) – Efforts to clean up government – difficult in the best of times – were hamstrung by none other than Nigeria’s top judge accused of failing to declare hundreds of thousands of dollars that ‘suspiciously’ appear in his accounts but were never declared as […]
The African Music Community Mourns Tuku’s Death
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | HARARE (IDN) – After 67 albums and a score of awards and honorary degrees, Zimbabwe’s musical legend Oliver Mtudkudzi – affectionately known as ‘Tuku’ – lost his long battle with diabetes at the Avenues Clinic in Harare. He was 66. He was buried January 27, with […]
Uganda Hosts Africa’s Largest Refugee Population
By Sulaiman Momodu The writer is a public information officer with the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR. This article first appeared on Africa Renewal, December 2018-March 2019 issue. KAMPALA (IDN-INPS) – As thousands of desperate men, women and children flee conflicts and natural disasters in search of a place of refuge, some countries are debating whether […]
Congo’s Constitutional Court Declares Tshisekedi Presidential Election Winner
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – The Democratic Republic of Congo finally has a president. Opposition figure Felix Tshisekedi was declared winner of the presidential race by the DR Congo’s top court on January 20. The Constitutional Court said Tshisekedi had won by a simple majority, paving the way for him […]
South Africa Calls For Solidarity With DR Congo As Security Council Debates Early Election Results
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – South Africa has called on the international community in general and the UN Security Council in particular to provide the necessary support to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the aftermath of the December 30 provincial and presidential elections that will be the first democratic […]
African Leaders Confront A ‘Blue Wave’ Demanding Change
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – When Democrats captured one House seat after another in the U.S. midterm elections, observers brushed it off as a “blue trickle”. Later they had to admit: it was a giant blue wave. Africans are also yearning for change and their frustration is erupting across the continent […]