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By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK, 22 May 2023 (IDN) — Rarely does an attack on a journalist get worldwide attention, provoke alarm and outrage from the news writing community who cite threats to freedom of expression in a young and fledgling democracy nestled in the tip of South Africa.
But this time, the murder of radio journalist Ralikonelo ‘Leqhashasha’ Joki of Lesotho, a country few can find on the map, has stirred commentators from shore to shore.
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK, 22 May 2023 (IDN) — African countries that borrowed billions of dollars from international creditors and private lenders face painful repayment demands that threaten their budgets for schools, power, food and fuel.
After nail-biting negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ghana's Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta announced this week that $600 million was scheduled to arrive soon—the first tranche of a 34 billion bailout approved by the lending institution. The remaining funds will be available over the next three years.
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK, 22 May 2023 (IDN) — Outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari has been ordered to account for a $460 million loan from a Chinese bank to pay for a closed circuit TV (CCTV) project that failed to materialize.
Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed reportedly has been unable to explain the loan to be used for the CCTV project designed to tackle crime and insecurity in the country.
By Rita Joshi
BONN, Germany, 19 May 2023 (IDN) — The largest living structure on earth, spanning 8,000km across Africa, is ushering in a new era of sustainability and economic growth. A game-changing African initiative launched by the African Union in 2007 aims to restore the Sahel's degraded landscapes and transform millions of lives, according to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK, 15 May 2023 (IDN) — An African migrant crisis in southern Maine, the easternmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States?
Newly arrived asylum seekers have been overwhelming several Maine cities, straining municipal budgets to the breaking point. Surprising to some, many of the migrants are from Africa, notes Luc Kuanzambi, a Congolese refugee.
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK, 15 May 2023 (IDN) — Since independence six decades earlier, through long stretches of military rule interrupted only by brief spells of democracy, Sudanese citizens began to dream of freedom. They had suffered enough.
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK, 15 May 2023 (IDN) — Cults are common in Kenya, which has a religious society. But the toll taken by the lead pastor has horrified Kenyans and governing officials who are set to prosecute Paul Mackenzie for terrorism-related offenses. Mackenzie, his wife and 16 other suspects will appear in court at the end of the month.
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK, 8 May 2023 (IDN) — With a blindfold, a sword in one hand and scales in another, Lady Justice is one of the most recognized legal symbols around the world.
Today, however, questionable actions cloud this moral force—from the Supreme Court of the U.S. to the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, which prepares to meet the challenges of crucial general elections to take place this summer.
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK, 8 May 2023 (IDN) — Along streets packed with Londoners, visitors from around the world, and members of the royal class, the coronation of Charles and Camilla was a sumptuous display of pageantry, trumpet fanfare, and gun salutes.
A glittering gold stagecoach built in 1760 was on hand to carry the royals to Buckingham Palace.
By Jutta Wolf
BERLIN, 4 May 2023 (IDN) — African countries pay much higher interest rates to foreign bondholders and Chinese lenders than to international financial institutions such as the World Bank, says Germany's eminent Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Besides, the hiatus in borrowing conditions has grown over the past ten years, suggesting substantial cross-creditor subsidies.
The research institute has analysed a new dataset, which provides a detailed picture of Africa's government debt (also known as the sovereign debt) for the first time.
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