Traveling Africa is trending. In the last two years, I have noticed travel groups and organizations popping up that are focused on delivering a unique Africa travel experience. Several of these travel groups are black-owned, which is great! Musesuniform in Kenya They all emphasize different aspects: some are about diving into he glitz and glam of big African cities like Accra and exploring the hottest restaurants and coolest bars or attend art festivals like Chale Wote. Others focus on sporty activities like hiking and climbing. Some travel groups are all about the educational/cultural aspect of traveling, others are more about…
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1st September 2021 The new president supports her security establishment’s policies on the Mozambican insurgency as well as harsh repression of the civil opposition Although it is the neighbouring country most affected by the Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado, Tanzania’s response to the conflict is the most misunderstood. Many of Mozambique’s Islamist insurgents first organised in Tanzania and their presence in Mozambique is, arguably, a product of their suppression there, according to intelligence and political sources in Dar es Salaam. End of preview – This article contains approximately 1726 words. If you are…
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has named businessman Aziz Akhannouch to lead a new government after his liberal RNI party thrashed the long-ruling Islamists in parliamentary elections.The king appointed Akhannouch “head of the government and tasked him with forming a new government”, following Wednesday’s polls, a statement from the palace said on Friday.The RNI won 102 of parliament’s 395 seats, trouncing the moderate PJD Islamists, which had headed the governing coalition for a decade but took just 13 seats, according to results released by the interior ministry.Akhannouch hailed the results as “a victory for democracy”.The billionaire businessman – worth $2bn according…
Issued on: 10/09/2021 – 20:56 Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Friday appointed Aziz Akhannouch of the liberal RNI party as prime minister and asked him to form a government, state news agency MAP reported. The king appointed Akhannouch “head of the government and tasked him with forming a new government”, following Wednesday’s polls, a statement from the palace said.RNI emerged as the biggest party in Wednesday’s parliamentary election, taking 102 of the 395 seats while the former largest party, the moderate Islamist PJD, collapsed to take only 13 seats.Akhannouch, a former agriculture minister, is one of Morocco’s richest men with…
Why did a fairly obvious observation by two white American scholars about Nigeria being a failed state cause controversy? It is because their conclusion departs from a familiar arc of Western commentaries on Nigeria and Africa, which tend to favor platitudinous waffling over candor and critique, and because it aligns with the much-critiqued dominant Western narrative of African dysfunction. Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s viral critique of un-nuanced Western narratives that homogenize Africa as a hotbed of chaos and tragedy has become the staple reference for discussions on Western portrayals of Africa. But this critique has, in its virality, made it…
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Guinea’s first elected president came to power more than a decade ago promising to stand up to global mining giants and improve the lives of the poor in the resource-rich west African country. But this week, people celebrated on the street as the one-time political exile and democratic activist Alpha Condé was ousted in a military coup. Their charge: Guinea had become a mining powerhouse on his watch but their lives had barely changed. To cap it all, he had tried to extend his rule for a third term. “I didn’t know him very well, but I knew [him as…
Djibouti internationals Bilal Hassan, Aboubakar Elmi and Nasrodin Aptidon are seeking political asylum in FranceThree members of Djibouti’s national football team are seeking asylum in France, where one of them was allowed to leave an international airport in Paris on Friday after a week in the transit zone. Nasrodin Abdi Aptidon left Orly airport seven days after failing to board a connecting flight as Djibouti travelled for a 2022 World Cup qualifier via the French capital. On Wednesday, his two team-mates – Bilal Hassan and Aboubakar Elmi – had received clearance from French authorities to leave the airport following a…
The marks of torture are easily visible on some, their arms held tightly behind their backs. On a trip to Wad El Hilou, a Sudanese town near the border with Ethiopia, a CNN team counted three bodies in one day. Witnesses and local authorities in Sudan confirmed that in the days after the team’s departure, 11 more bodies arrived downstream.Evidence indicates the dead are Tigrayans. Witnesses on the ground say the bodies tell a dark story of mass detentions and mass executions across the border in Humera, a town in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.CNN has spoken with dozens of witnesses collecting the…
Many forms of injustice that exist are a legacy of the same networks of power – colonialism, whiteness and patriarchy. The same tongue that names queerness as “unnatural” is the same system that has police shooting black people in the streets and it’s the same one that is decimating the Amazon jungle. Therefore, it’s essential for us to consider that any pro- justice work we undertake requires inclusion of them all – we cannot achieve different futures without taking everyone along because if we don’t do that we merely reterritorialise structures for similar unequal futures. In Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy…