Archives for April 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

 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 …

Published on Apr 22, 2016 | France24  

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. © …

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 …

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 …

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 …