Of my four articles, I found the article on Morocco’s re-admittance into the African Union was the most interesting. It has been 33 years since Morocco was in the AU and is now granted a part in the Union. The re-admittance happened despite Morocco still claiming the occupied Western Sahara. There are other African countries that are also disputing claim… Read more »
The new law in Zambia giving an optional “Mother’s Day” every month for menstruating women is gesture that may lead to more controversy than good.
As important as the Middle East has been to the U.S., there is another, far larger area that will continue to grow in importance — Africa. The continent is rich in physical resources: oil, diamonds, gold, silver, and uranium to name a few, and maintains a 54-nation membership in the United Nations. The global say and economic potential of Africa… Read more »
I found the video about South Sudan over winter break and it was extremely helpful in explaining the conflict. Vox does a great job explaining world wide conflicts in a simple matter. I like how they compare it to the Rwanda genocide. It is very similar with the two large ethnic groups and the thousands of people dying due to… Read more »
While there have recently been many bad developments in Africa, one that may hold some promise is the continuing growth of development between the People’s Republic of China and Sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, China has become Africa’s largest trading partner, and the Chinese government has offered many loans and aid programs to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, culminating in a… Read more »
These past two weeks have been very interesting to follow and see what was going on in Africa. Gambia is still having issues with their election and the president is still not stepping down. They had a meeting set but no judges showed up to the hearing because they don’t want to be accidently charging themselves with crimes they have… Read more »
A few days ago I did all of my article post but I posted them on to the wrong Region.So that’s why Grant and I have the same article (I added another to make up for it) but I did want to take the time to reflect on Gambia’s presidential election. Its been an strong American tradition since the founding… Read more »
I want to focus on two specific places this week and those two places are Ghana and Gambia. Gambia is having some turmoil over election results and their president is not willing to accept the election results and step down from the presidential podium. While Ghana’s president conceded defeat to Nana Akufo-Addo just days ago and It was a very peaceful… Read more »
A rather worrisome trend in South Sudan, the world’s newest country, has seen the country slide nearer and nearer to genocide and a civil war continuing to grow worse, after a peace agreement had deteriorated earlier in the year. The ongoing violence is made worse by the ethnic conflict present in the nation- the 2 dominant ethnic groups, the Nuer… Read more »
I want to bring my main focus of this analysis post to Kenya delaying the closure of the world’s largest refugee camp. I think that they are right to close it because it is a security threat. The majority of the camp are Somali refugees and they could easily carry out an attack on the Kenyans. Over the past year,… Read more »