A Totally Different Image
French oil and gas company TotalEnergies has worked to cultivate a green reputation with climate goals and plans to ramp up renewable power, but a massive east African oil project is casting a shadow over that messaging campaign. Total plans to drill for oil in a richly biodiverse national park in Uganda and build a […]
400 Boots on the Ground after South Africa’s Natural Disaster
Troops have been deployed to support rescue operations since massive floods hit South Africa more than a week ago. Following up a declaration of a national state of disaster, President Cyril Ramaphosa dispatched top ministers to the city of Durban and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, where at least 448 people have now died and 40,000 are […]
Ethiopians Willing to Take Up Arms for Russia
Dozens of young Ethiopian men continue to gather at the Russian embassy in the capital, Addis Ababa following rumours of soldiers being recruited to fight in the war in Ukraine. But the embassy’s spokeswoman, Maria Chernukhina, said no recruitment was being carried out in Ethiopia. She said the crowd was showing solidarity with Russia. “We have […]
Silicon Savannah Welcomes New Tenant
Tech giant Google has announced that it will build its first product development center in Africa in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. In 2018 the company announced a $1bn investment plan for Africa to capitalise on the growing number of internet users on the continent. “By 2030, Africa will have 800 million internet users… and Google is […]
Another European State Approaches Rwanda about Taking Over its Migrants
Denmark is in talks with Rwanda about setting up a scheme to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda in a copy-cat of the one announced by Britain last week. ‘Our dialogue with the Rwandan government includes a mechanism for the transfer of asylum seekers…The deal aims to ‘ensure a more dignified approach than the network of […]
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Partners with Leading African Women Architects to Design the World’s First Presidential Center
The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development (EJS Center) announces that it is collaborating with atelier masōmī’s Mariam Issoufou Kamara, Counterspace’s Sumayya Vally,and Pan-African Engineering Group’s (PAEG) Karen Richards Barnes in the design of a state-of-the-art Presidential Center and Library in Monrovia, Liberia. The project will be a landmark in every sense […]
