Africa

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The UN must broker a renewal of the Black Sea Grain Deal for 12 months to avert impending famine, global hunger. Millions of people are facing extreme hunger and drought in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. The continued uncertainty of grain shipments from the Black Sea has contributed to the situation. Supply chains must be opened […]

U.S. Vice President Harris arrives in Accra, Ghana, March 28, during a seven-day visit to Africa that included Tanzania and Zambia. (© Misper Apawu/AP) While visiting a farm outside Lusaka, Zambia, Vice President Harris announced 

Published April 6, 2023, 5:00 am CT 2023-04-06 05:00 5:00 April 6, 2023 am This column first appeared in The Amendment, a new biweekly newsletter by Errin Haines, The 19th’s editor-at-large. Subscribe today to get early access to future analysis.

Kamala Harris’s trip to Africa, at turns eliciting deep reflection from the historic US vice president, offered a chance for her to reconnect with Black Americans whose support is crucial for her and President Joe Biden’s looming reelection bid. At the Cape Coast Castle, a former slave-trading post in Ghana, Harris delivered an emotional address […]

Stunning shots have emerged of a rare black panther in Laikipia, Kenya Leopards fall under the critically endangered bracket on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species It is the first black panther to be photographed in Africa without a camera trap Until 2019, there had only been one confirmed […]

Members of the Black Law Students Association at the University of Virginia School of Law flew 20 hours to visit Cape Town, South Africa, during spring break to conduct and present legal research on international hate speech law to attorneys with the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. The country is still working to erase the […]

On March 26, US vice-president Kamala Harris landed in Accra, Ghana, kicking off a week-long trip to three African countries, including Tanzania and Zambia. The visit . . .

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday stood before a monument commemorating Ghana’s independence from colonialism and envisioned a grand future between the U.S. and Africa, propelled by innovation on the continent. But she’s also insisting on exploring past wounds, heading to a seaside fort where enslaved Africans were loaded onto ships […]

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Sunday that the United States will increase investment in Africa and help spur economic growth as she began a week long tour of the continent aimed at offering a counter to the influence of rival China. China has invested heavily in Africa in recent decades, including in infrastructure […]

In a city in Ghana, a fight between ethnic groups is the kind of bitter local dispute Islamist militants often exploit Ghanaian immigration police patrol near the border with Burkina Faso, where al Qaeda attacks have forced thousands of villagers to flee. Source link


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