Link to Article: https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00079975.html After 17 years of increased piracy activity in the Gulf of Guinea, piracy rates have dropped to the lowest it’s been recorded. With crimes ranging from piracy to human trafficking to cargo theft, the Gulf of Guinea is one of the most dangerous maritime areas in the world. With Nigeria leading the combate against piracy in… Read more »
Link to Article: https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00079972.html In hopes to increase the volume of trade to greater than $1 billion, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have signed bilateral agreements to raise commercial and economic cooperation between the two countries. Turkish President Erdogan traveled to Abuja, Nigeria (the capital of Nigeria) to converse with Buhari. The Nigerian Leader said… Read more »
Link to article: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/15/cambridge-college-to-be-first-uk-return-looted-benin-bronze Cambridge has become the first college or institution to return precious African artifacts (more specifically, Nigerian) after they were originally taken from their home countries over centuries ago. This comes as a wave of reparations to mistreated African countries takes place across the world, specifically for the crimes made to the country during times of colonization… Read more »
I picked this article because its covers every country in sub saharan africa. The intermittent preventment of malaria in toddlers foundation has rolled up thousands of malaria vaccines towards youth in sub saharan africa. Sub saharan africa was responsible for 94% of the 229 million malaria cases in 2019. The WHO recently approved this vaccine for children under the age… Read more »
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58842427 Thomas Sankara the former president of Burkina Faso was gunned down by multiple soldiers in a coup. His best friend, rose to power shortly after. This led to skepticism throughout the country. Sankara was loved by the citizens of Burkina Faso which is why over 30 years later, the 14 soldiers are going on trial. This was a massive… Read more »
link to article: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/14/kenya-rejects-un-court-judgment-giving-somalia-control-of-resource-rich-waters Recently the UN made a ruling in their higher court that the disputed waters in the Indian Ocean should belong to Somalia. These waters are located off the shores of both Kenya and Somalia, and they lean more heavily on the Somalian ‘borders’, however the territory has been disputed for years and is a heavy point… Read more »
link to article: https://www.independent.co.uk/stop-the-illegal-wildlife-trade/uk-red-list-african-ecosystems-b1866312.html As cases of Covid-19 rise, including the Delta variant and other unknown variants of the virus, the UK has continued to shut down it’s systems of travel and shut it’s citizens in the country to prevent the further transmission of the virus. To do this, they’ve implemented a stop-light system. They put countries on a list,… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/30/ill-never-go-back-ugandas-schools-at-risk-as-teachers-find-new-work-during-covid When school let our in March 2020, Ugandan schools stopped paying teachers. Teachers were forced to find other occupations to survive. Many teachers were forced out of their houses and moved outwards where land was cheaper. Some even becoming farmers. Over a year later, teachers who found new jobs are situated. Ugandan schools are now being shutdown as there… Read more »
https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00079895.html Freedom Fund is an organization that was made to help stop the global modern slavery that is present. They identify and invest in the most effective frontline efforts to eradicate modern slavery in the countries and sectors where it is most prevalent. The most recent example of this, would be their investment of one million dollars in East African… Read more »
https://allafrica.com/stories/202110130920.html In Northern Ethiopia, a war broke out around ten months ago between two seperate parts of the country. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front and Ethiopian’s federal troops. The war has taken a devastating toll on Ethiopia’s population. Today it is considered a humanitarian crisis. Ethiopian people are being slaughtered in the streets, forced to flee their homes, and unable… Read more »