[Botswana Innovation Hub\Icon Building]
Bloomberg: “$60 million Icon Building, which largely makes up the state-run Botswana Innovation Hub’s science and technology park, is among the most expensive government-funded structures built since Botswana’s independence from the U.K. in 1966.”
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Angola
Africa’s Diamond Capital Invests in Futuristic Innovation Hub
UNHCR: Resurging Violence could spark Mass Displacement in DRC
[Democratic Republic of the Congo]
UNHCR: “The newly displaced report killings, rape, torture, looting and burning of homes in recent weeks. Dozens of people have arrived with injuries. There are many children, women, and elderly among the displaced.”
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CALIFORNIA CONGRESSWOMAN BASS QUESTIONS POMPEO’S AFRICA TRIP
[Pompeo Africa Trip\Rep. Karen Bass]
According to reports, Secretary Pompeo has said that Trump is eager to play a bigger role on the continent. My hope is that this includes a comprehensive Africa policy and not just the desire to counter China.
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“LUANDA LEAKS” REPORT: FORMER ANGOLAN PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER CORRUPT, STOLE FROM ANGOLAN PEOPLE
[Corruption\Fraud\Angola]
“Luanda Leaks” report: “The files reveal how Isabel dos Santos, the richest woman in Africa and daughter of long-serving African strongman president, JosĂ© Eduardo dos Santos, moved public money out of one of the poorest countries on the planet into tax havens and beyond.”
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