AfricaFocus Bulletin
June 19, 2017 Africa/Europe: Mediterranean Trajectories
"On July 5, 2016, a 36-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker named Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi
was beaten to death by Amedeo Mancini, a 39-year-old Italian soccer ultra associated
with a local chapter of the neo-fascist CasaPound Italy political movement. Emmanuel
and his wife Chinyery had fled the violence wreaked by the Boko Haram insurgency in
Nigeria after losing their parents and a two-year-old daughter when their village
church was set on fire. They undertook the dangerous journey through Libya and across
the Mediterranean on a smuggler's boat, during which Chinyery suffered a miscarriage,
finally arriving in Palermo. The harrowing story of Emmanuel and Chinyery is far from
an isolated case, however." - Camilla Hawthorne, "In Search of Black Italia"
June 6, 2017 South Africa: #Guptaleaks - Will Heads Roll?
"The Guptas have until now escaped investigation from the state agencies because they
have purchased indemnity. You have to hand it to the Guptas; the way they went about
capturing the state is quite impressive. Not only did they buy the president and his
son, they targeted key people in government that could act as their minions. When
people were resistant to their agenda, they scouted for bootlickers and had them
appointed. They paid off people in the security agencies to make sure they would not
be bothered with criminal investigations." - Daily Maverick, June 5, 2017
May 30, 2017 USA/Africa: "Pro-Death" Health Agendas Advance
"3.3 million more abortions. 15,000 more mothers dying. 8 million more unplanned
pregnancies. ... Those grim numbers from the Guttmacher Institute show the potential
real-world impact of the Trump administration's unprecedented proposed cuts to global
family planning efforts; the budget the White House released Tuesday would basically
eliminate those programs." - Sarah Wildman, Vox, May 24, 2017
May 24, 2017 Nigeria: Corruption Undercuts Boko Haram Fight
"Nigeria's corrupt elites have profited from conflict; with oil prices at a record
low, defence has provided new and lucrative opportunities for the country's corrupt
kleptocrats. Former military chiefs have stolen as much as US $15 billion – a sum
equivalent to half of Nigeria's foreign currency reserves – through fraudulent arms
procurement deals." - new report on "Weaponizing Tranparency"
May 17, 2017 Africa/Global: Whose Energy?
"We, the undersigned representatives of African civil society, express our deep
concern regarding efforts by the European Union and France to hijack the Africa
Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI), an African-owned and African-led initiative
endorsed by all 55 African Heads of State to scale up renewable energy on our
continent." April 6 statement by Pan African Climate Justice Alliance and over 200
civil society networks and groups from 34 African countries.
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May 8, 2017
Africa: World Bank Financing Land Grabs
April 25, 2017
Africa/Global: Media Repression 2.0
April 25, 2017
Zambia: From Democracy to Dictatorship?
April 17, 2017
Africa/Global: New Reports Show Massive Tax Losses
April 10, 2017
Africa: African Feminism Past and Present
April 3, 2017
South Africa: Rising Outcry for Zuma to Go
March 28, 2017
Liberia: Mining, Displacement, and the World Bank
March 21, 2017
Africa/Global: Scaling Up Solar
March 14, 2017
Africa/Global: Invisible Crises, Failing Safety Nets
March 6, 2017
South Africa: Targeting Immigrants, Again
February 28, 2017
Africa/Global: Open Data for Tax Justice
February 20, 2017
Africa/Global: Agribusiness Giants on Merger Path
February 12, 2017
Congo (Kinshasa): Tshisekedi Place Hard to Fill
February 7, 2017
Africa/Global: Transparency Setback, African Agendas
January 30, 2017
Kenya: State of the Internet
January 23, 2017
South Africa: State Capture & Energy Policy
January 16, 2017
Africa: Electoral Landscapes
December 6, 2016
Gambia: Sudden Hope in a Small Country
November 28, 2016
Africa/Global: Overcoming the Shadow Economy
November 17, 2016
Somalia: Rising Threats to Dadaab Refugees
November 10, 2016
Africa/Global: Climate Threat, Action Tracks
October 26, 2016
Congo (Kinshasa): "No Elections" Reports
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