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Archives for April 2016

The Worst Dictatorship You’ve Never Heard Of
Published: April 24, 2016

Jeffrey Smith | April 21, 2016 | Foreign Policy Gambia is facing its biggest protest movement in years. It will either be a breakthrough or a bloodbath. Since taking power in a bloodless coup in 1994, Yahya Jammeh has presided over the worst dictatorsh …


In new Egyptian textbooks, ‘it’s like the revolution didn’t happen’
Published: April 24, 2016

Sudarsan Raghavan | 23 April 2016 | The Washington Post CAIRO — The omission on Page 5 is glaring. In a fifth-grade government textbook, a name has been purged from a list of Egyptian Nobel laureates: Mohamed ElBaradei, who was awarded the 2005 Nobel P …


Ethiopia struggles with worst drought for 50 years leaving 18 million people in need of aid
Published: April 24, 2016

Aislinn Laing, Sitti Zone, Ethiopia | 23 April 2016 | The Telegraph Every morning Aisha Nor rises at dawn to spend several hours gathering dry twigs from the scrubland around her home. By selling them each week at the local market, she can earn just en …


The map that shows the countries with the least press freedom in the world
Published: April 24, 2016

Katie Foster | Saturday 23 April 2016 | The Independent The UK is described as having a ‘satisfactory situation’ but has dropped two places in the 2016 World Press Freedom Index This map shows the countries where journalists are free to report the news …


Congo music legend Papa Wemba dies
Published: April 24, 2016

 24 April 2016 | iol.co.za Abidjan – Congolese rumba music legend Papa Wemba died after collapsing on stage in the Ivory Coast in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the private morgue where his body was taken. Wemba, born in 1949, was perf …


Eye on Africa (France24)
Published: April 24, 2016

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Abuse of power: African leaders and their flying machines
Published: April 24, 2016

Leela Jacinto | 2016-04-23 | France24 Presidential planes are one of the perks of holding a country’s top post. In Africa, the relationship between some leaders and their aerial fleets can serve as a manual on how power is wielded – and often abused. © …


Stage Five of the Tour Eritrea 2016
Published: April 24, 2016

23 April 2016 | shabait.com Asmara, 23 April 2016 – The fifth stage of the Tour Eritrea 2016 “Tour of Resilience and Development” consisted climbing long distance mountains and the expectation to observe breakaways, attacks and counter attacks was very …


National cycling team impress in Tour of Eritrea
Published: April 24, 2016

Richard Bishumba | April 22, 2016 | The New Times Joseph Areruya was fourth overall and second in U23 category after stage 2 of Tour of Eritrea (Courtesy) Classification after stage 2 Top three 1. Yonatan Haile 5:43:10 2. Amanuel Meron 5:43:25 3. Aron …


The Sixties and Red Africa: the decade of searching for African utopias
Published: April 24, 2016

Congolese anti-colonial leader and inaugural Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. Gerard McCann | April 21, 2016 | The Conversation Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister Patrice Lumumba was a celebrity in Yugoslavia. Lumumba’s execution in 196 …


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