Facebook Opens Its First Office in Africa
Facebook opens its first office in Africa At the end of June 2015, Facebook opened its first office in Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa. The office will be…
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A Historic Step: Nigeria Outlaws Female Genital Mutilation
As one of his final acts as President, Goodluck Jonathan bans female genital mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria. As the most populous state in Africa, this historic decision carries…
A Historic Step: Nigeria Outlaws Female Genital Mutilation
As one of his final acts as President, Goodluck Jonathan bans female genital mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria. As the most populous state in Africa, this historic decision carries…
Authoritarian African leaders with a thin veneer of democratic legitimacy
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza is seeking a third five-year term in office, despite violent street protest, and a failed coup détat. Burundi's Parliament elected Nkurunziza in 2005, and…
Rice and Museveni shake hands on crimes in Central Africa
During the first week of May, President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC) Advisor Susan Rice met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in New York City. NSC spokesperson Bernadette…
Uganda: Besigye calls for no election without electoral reform
Three sitting presidents in the Great Lakes Region of Africa are doing their best to stay in power beyond constitutional term limits. They include Burundi's Pierre Nkurunziza, the…
RWANDA HOLDS POLITICAL PRISONER VICTOIRE INGABIRE IN DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS
PRESS RELEASE On Tuesday, February 17, 2015, the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Kigali, Ms. Leoni Cuelenaere, paid a visit to political prisoner and President of FDU-Inkingi, Ms.…
The Real Reason Blacks “Can’t Breathe” — We Finance Our Own Oppression
El-Ouli Mustafa Sayed died in combat during liberation war -- he founded Polisario when he was 23 Observations From The Streets Of America To The Sahara Desert By…
In support of “Rwanda’s Untold Story” and the BBC
A call for truth and justice in the African Great Lakes Region (Published here for the signatories by Ann Garrison and the Black Star News.) On Oct. 1,…
Sovereignty And Decoloniality — From The United States To Western Sahara
Morocco's King Mohammed VI-- maintains colonial dominance over Western Sahara Western Sahara is the last remaining colony in Africa; and here in the United States, African-Americans are still…