Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/10/south-africas-ramaphosa-calls-state-of-disaster-on-power Summary: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a ‘state of disaster’ in his country regarding his country’s major daily power outages, which have lasted up to 8 hours a day. This declaration will allow his government to make power blackout exemptions to vital services such as water treatment facilities and hospitals and also be able to buy… Read more »
Article: https://www.africanews.com/2023/02/14/african-union-to-deploy-top-poll-observers-for-nigerias-elections// Summary: The African Union is to send over 90 poll observers to oversee Nigeria’s February 25th elections, where nearly 100 million people are expected to vote. The current incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, is term limited after two terms, leaving behind issues of widespread insecurity and a struggling economy for his successor. Uhuru Kenyatta, the former Kenyan president, will… Read more »
Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64627695 Summary: The son of longtime leader and dictator of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang has had 2 of his luxurious cars and a mansion seized from him and auctioned off in South Africa to Daniel Janse, a businessman who had failed to close a deal with the vice president during a trip to Equatorial Guinea. Janse sued after being… Read more »
Cheneso (the tropical storm) killed 30, 20 people were lost, and thousands were displaced, which made landfall on jan 19, the first storm of the year. This however is unfortunately not uncommon for Madagascar, as it sees a series of these storms every year. Flooding and landslides from Cheneso has been devastating, as many as 37,000 people have been displaced…. Read more »
The Eritrean president (Isaias Afwerki) appeared in a joint news conference with the Kenyan president in Nairobi, making a rare appearance in international media. He deflected questions about Eritrean troops that “may or may not” still be residing in Ethiopia’s Tigray region despite the peace treaty established between the two in November of 2022. The troops had been sent to… Read more »
The coffee production in Liberia peaked at 209,000 60 kg bags in 1985, but ever since then coffee production in Liberia has been dropping, and as a result more farmers have been growing more profitable cash crops like cocoa and natural rubber. Even though this is the case, Liberia has been known for its specialty coffee; Coffea Liberica. This Coffee… Read more »
Russia’s foreign minister (Sergei Lavrov) is taking a tour around Africa in an attempt to spread Russian influence amid suppression from western countries, usually in the form of sanctions, due to their continuous actions in Ukraine. He’s already been to Sudan, and spoke with their officials about increasing economic coordination between the countries as well as potentially providing means for… Read more »
Nigeria could possibly become Africa’s biggest oil refiner by 2025 as stated by a report by Hawilti. The report states that West Africa now has better oil security and that it has the biggest capacity to refine oil, but only 23% of it is operational, and in Nigeria, a new oil refinery could increase its capacity to refine oil…. Read more »
The German finance minister has denounced China for not taking enough action regarding Ghana’s debt rehabilitation program as a bilateral creditor. He demands a creditor committee be formed among countries who have taken advantage of Ghana’s economic depravity in order to force their hand with debt. China is notorious for these debt practices across the world, but have caused particular… Read more »
