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 »
Link to Article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/9/chinas-new-foreign-minister-heads-to-africa-for-first-trip Summary of Article: The new Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang is to visit 5 African states and the secretary-general of the Arab League in early January, continuing a 30-year tradition of a trip to Africa by a foreign minister each year. China claims it seeks to uphold its “traditional” friendships and build upon its relations with… Read more »
Link to Article: Aljazeera Article Summary of Article: President Paul Kagame of Rwanda stated to his upper house of parliament that Rwanda would not take any further refugees. In his speech he stated that Rwanda could not handle further refugees and that he intended to make sure that everyone knew it was the DRC’s problem and not Rwanda’s. This speech… Read more »
