LAUREL WAMSLEY | September 25, 2020 | NPR.ORG Magawa, a rat that has been trained to detect explosives, was awarded the PDSA Gold Medal on Friday for bravery in searching out unexploded land mines in Cambodia.PDSA via AP For the first time, one of Brit …
Ethiopia increases GERD storage capacity to 74 billion cubic meters without research
Al-Masry Al-Youm| October 16, 2020 | Egypt Independent GERD 2020 Ethiopia has increased the storage capacity of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) from 11 to 74 billion cubic meters, without confirming studies on its safety or environmental imp …
PODCAST | IMF Africa head Abebe Aemro Selassie: optimist and believer in the African Century
07 OCTOBER 2020 | Business Day Click here to listen to the podcast. In this edition of African Business podcast we speak to Abebe Aemro Selassie about the outlook for African economies in the wake of the pandemic. Selassie is t …
Lucy King: How Can Bees Keep The Peace Between Elephants And Humans?
September 4, 2020 | NPR/TED STAFF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on0B0iCovOo
Is It Even Possible To Spend $70,000 On Hair? Stylists Break It Down
There are a few scenarios where Donald Trump’s high hairstyling bill would actually make sense, according to these experts. Jamie Feldman | 09/28/2020 | HUFFPOST A recent bombshell New York Times report revealed that President Donald Trump …
Does US military training incubate coups in Africa? The jury is still out
Lee J. M. Seymour and Theodore McLauchlin | September 28, 2020 | The Conversation Michele Cattani/AFP via Getty Images Military officers overthrew Mali’s government in a coup d’état on August 18, 2020. Among the more worrying aspects of the c …
This is how Lungu is planning to rig Zambia’s 2021 general election
Sishuwa Sishuwa | 25 Sep 2020 | Mail & Guardian Edgar Lungu. Election rigging in many of Africa’s democracies occurs through a range of strategies, such as ballot-box stuffing, electoral bribery, violence against political opponents and the em …
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Israel-UAE trade will overtake deals with Egypt
Emirati market regulations are far more business friendly, and its contract enforcement is significantly more reliable TIMOTHY KALDAS |10 SEPTEMBER 2020 |BUSINESS DAY US Marine Corps F-35B fighter jets drop bombs. Picture: REUTERS/KOREAN AIR FORCE/YONH …
Abandoned in Lebanon, African domestic workers just want to go home
Zecharias Zelalem |14 Sep 2020 | Mail & Guardian Members of the Oromo Ethiopian community in Lebanon take part in a demonstration to protest the death of musician and activist Hachalu Hundessa, in the capital Beirut on July 5 2020. Hundessa was sho …
Why a proposed Horn of Africa bloc could destabilise the larger region
Ingo Henneberg and Sören Stapel |September 8, 2020 | The Conversation Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki (left), Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (right) and Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. Relations in the Horn of Africa a …
Rwanda’s Kagame denies Paul Rusesabagina was kidnapped
President says detained government critic ‘led himself’ to Rwanda, accuses him of of being a ‘terrorist’ leader. Al Jazeera | 7 September, 2020 Rusesabagina was paraded last week in front of media in handcuffs at the Kigali headquarters of the Rwanda I …
Editorial: The ANC buys itself (more) time
Editorial | 4 Sep 2020 | Mail & Guardian There is a truth in politics: this crisis will pass, and people will be distracted by the next one. Just survive this moment, and you will escape accountability. This is a universal playbook, and the ANC k …
Kenyan cops cash in on Covid-19
Muthoni Gitonga |5 Sep 2020 | Mail & Guardian Excessive force: Men protest while pulling a cart carrying the body of Vitallis Ochilo Owino in the Mathare slums of Nairobi on May 4. He was allegedly beaten to death by police officers while walking i …
Trump Suspends Aid to Ethiopia Over Nile River Dam Dispute
Samuel Gebre | September 2, 2020 | Bloomberg The U.S. suspended aid to Ethiopia over its decision to fill a hydropower dam on a tributary of the Nile River before agreeing with Egypt and Sudan on how the reservoir will be managed. The Grand Ethiopian R …
Paul Rusesabagina’s arrest shows there’s no space for critical voices in Rwanda
Timothy P Longman | September 2, 2020 | The Conversation Paul Rusesabagina, chairman of the Rwandan Movement for Democratic Change political party. Paul Rusesabagina, who saved hundreds of Rwandans during the genocide by sheltering them in the hotel he …
South Sudan’s forex shortage highlights broader economic crisis
David Mono Danga |1 Sep 2020 | Mail & Guardian A man hangs out fish to dry next to a stream formed as a result of intense flooding in Maban, South Sudan. (Photo by Alex McBride/AFP) The South Sudan central bank announced last month that the country …
Catholic bishops accuse Zimbabwe gov’t of rights abuses
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration criticises pastoral letter as ‘evil message’ meant to stoke ‘genocide’. 16 August 2020| Aljazeera Police thwarted planned anti-government protests on July 31 [Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters] Catholic bishops in …
Beijing’s relations with Africa head for a reset after Covid-19
Wide-scale loan write-offs are unlikely as terms are renegotiated and new forms of trade emerge DAVID THOMAS |13 AUGUST | BUSINESS DAY Picture: 123RF/JUAN PABLO GONZALEZ As the Chinese authorities scrambled to respond to Beijing’s first coronavirus out …
Mass arrests in Ethiopia raise fears of a return to the iron fist
About 9,000 people have been detained by the government of Nobel peace prize winner Abiy Ahmed, human rights commission says DAWIT ENDESHAW |13 AUGUST 2020 | Business Day Aselefech Mulatu, wife of Dejene Tafa, a politician who is in custody, talks duri …
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