UN accepts AU’s invitation to support & participate in AU-led negotiation on GERD
March 6, 2021 Addis Abeba The US Secretary-General António Guterres said that the United Nations “is available to support and participate in the African Union-led...
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Earth Without Trees – OpEd
March 5, 2021 Dr. Michael A. Bengwayan There will be Water Wars. It will come as surely as deforestation is worsening. And at one...
Skin-lightening products cost Black and brown communities our money and our health.
Amira Adawe stands with a poster warning against the dangers of skin lightening creams. Credit: Amira Adawe A new bill in the Minnesota House of...
AFRICOM needs White House approval for airstrikes, report says
A screenshot from a U.S. Africa Command video shows airstrikes on an al-Shabab compound in Somalia on Jan. 1, 2021. AFRICOM now needs White House...
India not a ‘free’ nation: US watchdog
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Hooghly last month. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– In its latest report the US watchdog observes that the free world had shrunk as...
Africa is not poor, we are stealing its wealth
Mapping Africa’s natural resources [Al Jazeera] It’s time to change the way we talk and think about Africa. Nick Dearden 24 May 2017,...
Macron admits France murdered top Algerian independence figure
Malika Boumendjel, the widow of Algerian lawyer Ali Boumendjel, had never believed France’s story that her husband committed suicide in detention [File: Eric Feferberg/AFP] —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–...
Yemen’s Houthis Claim Strike on Saudi Base, Aramco Oil Depot
By Mohammed Hatem, Reema Al Othman, and Abbas Al Lawati March 4, 2021, 11:29 AM GMT+3 Group says it hit air base, fuel site with...
Egypt, Sudan voice concern over possible 2nd phase filling of Ethiopia’s Nile dam
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (R) and his Sudanese counterpart Mariam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi attend a press conference after their meeting in Cairo, Egypt, March 2,...
Chinese Study Reveals Uighur “assimilation” Goal
image caption Buzaynap, 19, appeared in a 2017 state media report on labour transfer —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- ‘If the others go I’ll go’: Inside China’s...