https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/30/zimbabwe-repossessing-unused-land-from-black-farmers This article talks about how there former president, Robert Mugabe, launched land reforms back in the two thousands forcibly removing white farmers and giving their land back to the black citizens. This was supposed to redress the British colonial legacies however it ended up being a case where a lot of Mugabe’s closest allies ended up getting more land… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/4/south-africa-kwa-zulu-natal-community-fights-coal-mine-expansion This article talks about the dispute over coal mining in South Africa in the Kwa-Zulu Natal community. The Tendele Coal Mine is looking to expand by June twenty twenty two and if an agreement is not reached, they are going to shut down the mine altogether. There is two sides to this argument over expansion as there is the… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/16/canadian-students-raise-money-for-madagascar-hunger-relief This article talks about how Madagascar has had some detrimental effects towards its population because of an ongoing drought. They have not been able to get sufficient nutrition because of this and in parts of the country they have been eating locusts, leaves, or even shoe leather just to survive. There has been reports that this could be the… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/23/dutch-court-rejects-suit-of-nigerian-widows-against-shell This article talks about the oil rich Niger Delta and how there has been a Dutch court that has thrown out a suit against Shell because they believe them to have exploited this oil rich Niger Delta. This suit has been brought by four widows of the activists that were protesting against Shell and were executed because of it…. Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/11/angola-ruling-party-backs-president-lourenco-for-a-second-term This article talks about the presidential election in Angola, and how there is some controversy with the new election. There is the main governing party, the People’s movement for the liberation of Angola, also known as the MPLA, and and the main opposition party, UNITA. The People’s movement for the liberation of Angola overwhelmingly re-elected Joao Lourenco as their… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/9/south-africas-aspen-signs-deal-with-jj-to-sell-covid-vaccines This article covers more covid news as the main pharmaceutical company, Aspen, has came to an agreement with a main vaccine carrier Johnson and Johnson to sell their covid vaccines in not only South Africa, but all fifty five of Africa’s countries. The vaccines will be sold under Aspen’s name. The talks for a deal started back in November… Read more »
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/28/at-least-20-civilians-killed-in-attack-in-eastern-congo-report This article talks about how there was a revolt sort of attack from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This attack apparently came months after the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Ugandan troops had launched a joint operation against the Allied Democratic forces, which has been killing civilians in the region since… Read more »
