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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
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will try to deepen and reframe U.S. relationships in Africa during a weeklong trip that is the latest and highest profile outreach by the Biden administration as it moves to counter China’s growing influence. Harris, who is traveling with her husband, Doug Emhoff, plans to visit Ghana, Tanzania […]
WASHINGTON — An American aid worker abducted by militants more than six years ago in West Africa has been freed, his wife and U.S. officials said on Monday, but the circumstances of his release were not immediately clear. The aid worker, Jeffery Woodke, was kidnapped in Niger in October 2016 and then was believed to […]