In late August, violent clashes in the capital city of Gabon left at least three people dead and a burning National Assembly. The violence was prompted by the re-election of incumbent President Ali Bongo Ondimba, which marks the continuation of a dynasty that has been in power for five decades. For the Gabonese…
What started as a simple hashtag has spread to all four corners of the globe. Created and popularized by African nationals, #IfAfricaWasASchool pokes fun at different countries and cultures by re-imagining them as high school stereotypes. Some countries are the jocks, for example, while others are the nerds or band geeks. “#IfAfricaWasASchool Ivory Coast…
Angela Merkel, one of the biggest names surrounding the refugee crisis, has come under fire once again after admitting she underestimated the refugee crisis. The blow boosted the AfD–Alternative fuer Deutschland party, an anti-immigration party–to over 21% of the votes in recent exit polls after Merkel addressed the fact that the impact felt by…
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged a $30 billion investment in Africa on August 27, 2016, noting that his country has faith in Africa’s future. Abe was in Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). He said the $30 billion in public and private support for education, healthcare…
African Models on the Rise Breaking into the seemingly glamorous world of modeling is no easy task, but models from African nations are taking the challenge in stride. Following in the steps of legends such as Iman and Alek Wek, a new generation is emerging on the international fashion scene. Amilna Estevao is just 17…
Julian Assange, the controversial leader of Wikileaks, promised this week that his organization will continue its efforts to wreak havoc on the United States’ presidential election by releasing more emails that are reportedly damaging to Democratic nominee and former Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Assange, who remains holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in…
Recently, a fight over burkinis and Islamic practices led the mayor of a village in Corsica to institute a local ban on the controversial bathing suits. This comes as the region has found itself in the midst of a migration of Muslims and other groups, triggering tension among nationalists. The actual fight that spurred…
On June 9, 2016, the World Health Organization declared Liberia free of the transmission of Ebola. The announcement came 42 days after the last confirmed Ebola patient in the country tested negative for the second time. Liberia was first declared Ebola free in May 2015, but the disease reemerged 3 times, bringing the toll to…
The video of young Omran Daqneesh waiting silently in an ambulance, covered in blood and dust after being rescued by an aid worker from the rubble of his family’s home in Aleppo, Syria, has circulated the internet over the past few days, turning the toddler into the face of the civil war’s devastating effects on…
Thousands of Haitians have died since the start of a cholera outbreak in the fall of 2010 following the devastating earthquake that ravaged the country. Cholera has since become endemic to Haiti and hundreds more continue to die every year. Many experts believe that the UN was responsible for the epidemic. The UN has taken…
