Barely one week into his refurbished presidential tenure, America’s Donald Trump seems poised to set new precedents in the model of the Presidency as the pinnacle of America’s democracy. An elected president of a republic is strutting and pronouncing like an emperor. Ordinarily, an American king would be a freak oddity. But here comes Donald […]
At both the Capitol One Arena and Capitol Hill, I saw it. I observed it too. Tesla boss and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, along with the officiating minister and a lady who introduced Donald Trump as the United States’ 45th and 47th President, used them. I am talking about the lecterns emblazoned with
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The announcement on Thursday, 24 January 2025 that President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Expropriation Bill into law has drawn expressions of concern and legal threats. But what does it actually mean? Listen to this article 8 min Listen to this article 8 min How long has this law been in the works? Years. In
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The stage is set at the Mohammed V National Theatre in Rabat, Morocco, where 24 African football nations will learn their group stage opponents in the highly-anticipated Final Draw for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025 on Monday. The event, set for 19h00 local time (18h00 GMT), will reveal the group
Dar es Salaam — In a landmark effort to tackle Africa’s energy access crisis, the World Bank Group and the African Development Bank Group will host the Africa Energy Summit on January 27-28 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The event aims to advance Mission 300, an ambitious initiative to deliver electricity to 300 million Africans
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This year, Africa will be the second-fastest-growing region globally. But persistent problems, including poverty, the effects of climate change, and weak governance, are fuelling widespread social frustration. This year, Africa will be the second-fastest-growing region globally. The African Development Bank projects an annual economic growth rate of 4.3 per cent, up from 3.7 per cent
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New York & Nairobi — A report released today on the International Day of Education sounds alarm as the number of school-aged children in crisis worldwide requiring urgent support to access quality education reaches a staggering 234 million–an estimated increase of 35 million over the past three years fueled by intensifying armed conflict, forced displacements,
Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would close by 2025. On the same day, the Ivorian president said France would hand over control of the Abidjan military base to his country’s army. These announcements followed the planned withdrawal of French forces from Chad,
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Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has hailed the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, for showing exemplary leadership on the African continent over the years. Sanwo-olu, who stated this in a statement to celebrate Dr Adesina as he clocks 65, described the former minister of agriculture as a leader whose impact
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Washington, DC — Today, Congresswomen Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37) and Sara Jacobs (CA-51), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, issued the following statement after Donald Trump issued a day-one executive order dissolving the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement: “We are disappointed—but not surprised—that Donald Trump dissolved the President’s Advisory Council
