By Global Information Network
MALAWI PRISON BAND NOW A GRAMMY NOMINEE
Dec. 21 (GIN) – With voices as gentle as angels, inmates at a maximum prison in Malawi have recorded an album which could capture ...
BOKO HARAM ‘TECHNICALLY DEFEATED’? SKEPTICS DISAGREE
Dec. 28 (GIN) – With only days to go before a self-imposed deadline for defeating Boko Haram, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has declared a ...
JUSTICE NEAR FOR THOMAS SANKARA
Dec. 28 (GIN) – An international arrest warrant has been issued for the ex-president of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore, for his suspected role in ...
AFRICA: POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA REACHES NEW HEIGHTS
Dec. 28 (GIN) – Social media networks in 2015 reached new heights in organizing popular protest and calls for change. Some of the most ...
HOPES OF ‘AFRICA RISING’ BESET BY GLOBAL DOWNTURNS
Dec. 28 (GIN) –This was the year African economies were poised to rise and invest some of their new-found capital in jobs and infrastructure. ...
U.N. DAYS AGAINST GENDER VIOLENCE – ‘POINTLESS NOISE’?
Dec. 7 (GIN) – “Happy abuser’s day.” That was Tumie Modise, a columnist at the Botswana news magazine Mmegi, railing against the unfulfilled promise ...
CHINA WOOS AFRICAN LEADERS AT AFRICA-CHINA CONFAB IN JO-BURG
Nov. 7 (GIN) – At the recently concluded Forum on Africa and China Cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to be everywhere – shaking ...
KAGAME REBUTS ‘OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE’ SEEKING TO BLOCK HIS BID FOR 3RD TERM
Dec. 7 (GIN) – Rwandan President Paul Kagame showed a flash of indignation this week at negative reactions coming from foreign allies to his ...
WORLD BANK UNVEILS AMBITIOUS CLIMATE BUSINESS PLAN FOR AFRICA
Nov. 30 (GIN) “Africans had the least responsibility for putting carbon in the air and yet they’re feeling the brunt of climate change.” That ...
IN VISIT TO NAIROBI SLUMS, POPE DECRIES GREED OF THE ELITES
Nov. 30 (GIN) –The head of the Catholic Church, making a historic trip to three countries in Africa, stopped in Nairobi’s Kangemi “informal settlement”, ...
