By Franco Bonghan — Bobi Wine was supposed to be just a singer. That miscalculation tells you everything about how afraid Uganda’s establishment is of ordinary people finding their voice….
By Franco Bonghan — Bobi Wine was supposed to be just a singer. That miscalculation tells you everything about how afraid Uganda’s establishment is of ordinary people finding their voice….
CNN’s Larry Madowo interviews Bobi Wine in Kampala and is teargassed while covering a rally in Nakawa West. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu says he would already be president if 2021 was…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (IL-1) today released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s recent threat to send U.S. troops into Nigeria amid reports of…
By Joanna Gilmore, The Conversation — In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of downtown Charleston, South Carolina….
Source: Business Insider Africa — Aliko Dangote has made history by becoming the first African to reach a net worth of $30 billion. This landmark achievement, confirmed by Bloomberg’s index,…
By Annah Lake Zhu and Amadou Ndiaye, The Conversation — Africa’s Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometre-wide band of trees across the north…
Ethiopia will tomorrow inaugurate Africa’s largest dam, a major source of electricity and national zeal for the country, but one that threatens to fray ties with nations downstream. The Grand…
By The Africa Center for Strategic Studies — Driven by escalating violence in the Sahel, Somalia, and Lake Chad Basin, the 22,307 fatalities linked to militant Islamist groups in Africa…
Surprise move towards trial of veteran diplomat over Patrice Lumumba’s 1961 assassination coincides with show seeking to widen focus on his life and fight. By Jennifer Rankin, The Guardian —…
French government says it is open to dialogue but does not acknowledge responsibility in letter seen by the Guardian. By Eromo Egbejule, The Guardian — More than a century after…
By April Ryan BlackPressUSA Washington Bureau Chief and White House Correspondent President Trump will meet with African leaders at the White House on Wednesday, about a week after he announced…
For some. the move by President Trump is ambitious and bold- and for others, it has a strong tinge of controversy concerning the absence of key power players in continent….