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Is Betting On Oil and Gas the Right Choice for Africa?

Published:April 04,2022 By Stephen Buchanan-Clarke and Leleti Maluleke Pixabay(file photo). Late last year, a coalition of environmental and human rights organisations filed an urgent interim interdict in the Makhanda High Court to prevent Shell from conducting seismic surveys to explore for oil and gas off South Africa’s Wild Coast. The case received considerable media attention in …

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The cost of the United States’ messy foreign policy of regime change

Published:April03,2022 BY Stephen Ndegwa U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, March 26, 2022. /CFP The preposterous and vicious statement by United States President Joe Biden on March 26 in Poland that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power” has …

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SA wants single African currency to boost intra-continental trade

Published:April 2,2022 By Jason Felix Minister of International Relations Naledi Pandor.• International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor says South Africa fully supports the idea of a single African currency.• Pandor says SA’s participation at African Union has been used to advocate for the establishment of continental financial institutions.• The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement is the first …

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China reveals human rights violations against Native Americans in U.S.

Published: March 30,2022 The U.S. should immediately act to investigate human rights violations against Indigenous people, seek redress for the victims of genocide and completely eliminate discrimination, Jiang Duan, minister of the Chinese mission to the UN in Geneva, said during the 49th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council …

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Rwanda denies supporting DR Congo rebel attacks against troops

Published: March 30,2022 Rwanda Tuesday denied accusations that its soldiers supported Congolese rebels of the March 23 Movement (M23) in their latest clashes with government troops in North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) said fighting with …

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Biden speech in Poland against Putin attracts world criticism

Published: March29,2022 By Staff Writer  On March 26, while giving a speech in Warsaw Poland, US president Joe Biden referring to Russian president Vladimir Putin said that, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” Biden cast Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a battle in a much broader conflict between democracy …

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China’s industrial profits surge on back of rising commodity prices

Published: March 29,2022 By Ouyang Shijia   Employees from a subsidiary of China Shipbuilding Industry Corp install clean-energy equipment in Nantong, Jiangsu province. [Photo/Xinhua] China’s industrial profits increased at a fast pace in the first two months of the year despite pressures from a complicated and grim economic situation at both home and …

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How China’s experience boosts Africa’s sustainable development

Published: March28,2022  In spite of abundant resources, a large population and a vast market, Africa is still the world’s least developed continent, beset by continuous poverty and hunger. Sharing a similar underdeveloped past with Africa, China achieved its ambitious goal of eliminating extreme poverty in 2020, improving the living standards …

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Kenya, Huawei sign agreement to boost ICT capacity

Published: March28,2022 Kenya and Huawei on Friday signed an agreement to boost the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capacity in the country. Joe Mucheru, cabinet secretary in the Ministry of ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs said in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, that under the agreement, a total of 20,000 Kenyans …

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U.S. and its NATO allies are not on the right side of history

Published: March 27,2022 Other than the Ukraine and Russia, do you know what’s the other country in focus during the NATO Summit? Yes, China. And the message they are sending is “stop Russia, help us stop Russia, don’t think about helping Russia.” According to CNBC’s reports of the summit, European leaders have …

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