Faith Nyasuguta Zimbabwe’s deputy president Constantino Chiwenga has revealed that the country wants to join the expanded BRICS Plus group. This comes after the bloc of emerging economies announced six new members to its cluster. The nations include Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Their memberships will take full effect […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A new report has revealed that both Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers continue a widespread and systematic campaign of rape in Tigray despite the peace de signed in November last year. In the first report documenting sexual violence – using hundreds of medical records from the start of the conflict in November 2020 through […]
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Maina wa Njuguna Tunisian authorities are alleged to be pushing Black/ Brown African migrants from Cameroon, Sudan and other countries deep into the desert by Human Rights groups such as Human Rights Watch. Extreme desert heat 40C (104F) and lack of water has left many dead. The authorities include Tunisian security forces such as the […]
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Maina wa Njuguna It’s sounds like fiction, or a storyline developed, and produced to capture attention and evoke deep emotions and feelings, but it is not. Six former White Mississippi (sheriff) police officers were recently indicted with 16 felonies stemming from the torture and abuse of two Black men. The accused are Christian Dedmon, Hunter […]
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Thandisizwe Mgudlwa – Cape Town, South Africa By promoting investments in Black-owned businesses, the Global Black Impact Summit will unleash a wave of economic equality and societal transformation, heralding a new era of diversity and inclusion in the business world, says the Black Impact Foundation (BIF). According to BIF, as the world increasingly acknowledges the […]
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Maina wa Njuguna The Caribbean region has continued to weather the economic storms better than many countries in the global south relatively speaking. Most of the region is expected to average 3.5% GDP growth this year, 2023 except for the republic of Guyana 🇬🇾 which is on an entire league of its own. Guyana is […]
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Maina wa Njuguna Gabon 🇬🇦 is the fifth richest country in Africa after Seychelles, Mauritius, Libya, and South Africa rounding up the top five per Gross National Income (GNI). In a headlining rare debt exchange deal, the country signed off $500 million national debt exchange for marine conservation of its rich biodiversity with Bank of […]
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Maina wa Njuguna Vehicles are selling like hot cakes even with all the economic challenges the world has been facing in the past few years. The global market for Automotive Manufacturing last year was valued at $2.9 trillion. The Covid-19 pandemic, economic slowdown in China which pushed growth in many other countries, high inflation and […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Over 1 million people have fled Sudan to neighboring states while people inside the nation are running out of food and dying due to lack of healthcare after four months of war, the United Nations has cautioned. Violence between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has devastated the capital […]
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Faith Nyasuguta On Thursday, West African military leaders convened in Ghana with the objective of coordinating a potential armed intervention to counteract the coup in Niger. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) acknowledged the need to activate a “standby force to restore constitutional order” in Niger, given the growing concerns. In response to […]
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