Africa Global Village

Press Release: Raising youth awareness around health and sanitation issues

November 27, 2013 Global Authorafrica, Health, Madagascar, Miray Razanajatovo, YMCA, Youth in Africa

Youth, keep yourself clean; it reflects the place you live”. That was the main message the peer educators have delivered recently during the awareness-raising activity they have carried out at the URBANATIC Analamahitsy where young people have been invited to participate in a cultural and sporting event. Issues around health and sanitation have been identified as one of the root... Read More

Comprehensive Gender Study in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for Psychosocial Support to Stop the Violence

November 27, 2013 Global Authorafrica, Democratic Republic of Congo, SEC, Sonke Gender Justice Network, Waes in Africa

27 November 2013, Cape Town, South Africa. Activists across the world are calling for action during the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence that started on November 25th. This year’s theme is “From Peace in the Home to Peace in the World”. Globally, the levels of gender-based violence are alarming, and they are even higher in conflict and post-conflict settings.... Read More

Thomas Sankara And The Assassination Of Africa’s Memory

October 16, 2013October 21, 2016 Global Authorafrica, Burkina Faso, Hero, Thomas Sankara, west africa

Thomas Sankara was Burkina Faso’s president from August 1983 until his assassination on October 15, 1987. Perhaps, more than any other African president in living memory, Thomas Sankara, in four years, transformed Burkina Faso from a poor country, dependent on aid, to an economically independent and socially progressive nation. Thomas Sankara began by purging the deeply entrenched bureaucratic and institutional corruption... Read More

ICC has arrest warrant for Kenyan Walter Barasa suspected of corruptly influencing witnesses

October 8, 2013October 21, 2016 Global Authorafrica, ICC, Judge Cuno Tarfusser, kenya, Walter Osapiri Barasa

ATLANTA - 7 October 2013, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) unsealed an arrest warrant against Walter Osapiri Barasa, Kenyan citizen, born in 1972. He is charged with several offences against the administration of justice including corruptly influencing or attempting to corruptly influence ICC witnesses. An under seal warrant of arrest was issued against him on 2 August 2013. Read More

Is foreign aid helping or Hurting Africa

August 24, 2013 Global Authorafrica, Afroca Global Village, Bono, Dambisa Moyo, foreign aid, Guardian, Laura Miller, Malawi, Mercy Corps, New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The World Bank, Zambia

More than $50 billion of foreign aid is given to African countries every year to address poverty on the continent. Although this may seem generous, and to some a solid strategy to treat Africa’s ailments, Dambisa Moyo — a Zambian economist with a background that includes Harvard, Oxford and Goldman Sachs — says just the opposite. In her new book,... Read More

Kenya To Become First East-African Oil Exporter By 2016

August 23, 2013 Global Authorafrica, Investments, kenya, Oil

It was some seven years ago that UK-based oil exploration firm Tullow Oil Plc ($TUWOY) first discovered promising reserves in the land-locked East-African nation of Uganada.Indeed, the company’s discoveries in Uganda, as well as in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, had caught the attention of a number of major companies, such as Royal Dutch Shell ($RDS.A), France’s Total SA... Read More

President dos Santos is “missing”

August 8, 2013October 22, 2016 Global Authorafrica, Angola, Dos Dantos, President missing, Southern Africa

President Jose Eduardo dos Santos left Angola on June 26th for a private visit to Barcelona in Spain, where he is reported to have travelled in the past for medical attention. With his stay overseas now exceeding 44 days, more than the duration of any previous visit, his absence has come under scrutiny in Angola. While he may well reappear… Read More

BEYOND THE BIG STICK, CHEQUE BOOK AND GUNBOATS

June 20, 2013 Global Authorafrica, Barack Obama, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Theogene Rudasingwa

AN OPEN MEMO TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ON THE EVE OF HIS SECOND VISIT TO AFRICA Your Excellency, Shortly, you and your family will board Air Force One and head to Africa, on a journey that will take you to Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa. During your first term in the White House you visited Ghana, where you made the… Read More

CHRISTIAN SAVIORS & THE ADOPTIONS INDUSTRY IN CONGO EXPLOITING AFRICA’S MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCE: CHILDREN

June 19, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergafrica, Child Trafficking, DRC, International Adoption, Jennifer Fierberg, Keith Harmon SNow

First Published: 18 June 2013 Jennifer Fierberg & Keith Harmon Snow An investigation in the adoptions industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo reveals that the U.S. Embassy is facilitating the trafficking of Congolese children. Interpreting the bible to prophesize the adoption of children as a soul-saving imperative, affluent U.S. Christians have spawned a new and massive movement using their privileges… Read More

“Africans want to lead a peaceful and progressive life” ~ An interview with Brigadier General Mujahid Alam

April 11, 2013March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergafrica, Amnesty international, Arms Trade Treaty, Jennifer Fierberg, Mujahid Alam, UN

By: Jennifer Fierberg While in New York City at the United Nations covering the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations I had the amazing opportunity to interview Retired Pakistani Brigadier General Mujahid Alam on his role in the negotiations and how a strong Arms Trade Treaty could affect Central Africa. General Alam spent fifteen years in Central Africa and wrote a very… Read More

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