By Christian Adofo This piece was created in partnership with Afro Nation. Billboard and Afro Nation recently launched the first-ever official Billboard Afrobeats U.S. Songs Chart, tracking the most popular rising new music in the rapidly growing genre. The 50-position Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart, which will go live on Billboard.com on March 29, ranks the most popular Afrobeat songs in the country […]
By Christine Ro Not everyone who speaks English is treated the same way. What happens when accent discrimination creeps into our conscious and unconscious – and what do we do about our biases? Last summer, Triangle Investigations, a New York-based HR consultancy, examined allegations of accent discrimination at a global non-profit organization. An African accented […]
People were dismayed to see the throngs of people at the Kabul airport scrambling to make it onto departing planes, as well as those who clung to the wheels and wings of those planes without regard for their own safety. The unceremonious end to the war in Afghanistan marks the latest in a string of […]
The Ethiopian Herald by Yohanes Jemaneh When war broke out in northern Ethiopia in November 2020 following the terrorist TPLF’s onslaught against the Ethiopian Defense Forces of Northern Command, Lt. General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the head of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council, dispatched over 6,000 soldiers to the Ethiopian border at the start of the war […]
Several remarks by reporters and media pundits have described Ukraine as more ‘civilised’ which has a GDP per capita of 3700, that is half of Belarus and one-fourth of Russia and the African country of Seychelles and way less than more developing countries in comparison, sparking backlash on social media. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which […]
Burkina Faso Introduction Burkina Faso is a landlocked West African country with an area of approximately 274,200 km2 (105,900 sq mi). Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and the Ivory Coast to the southwest border the landlocked country. Burkina Faso’s current population is 22,397,851, according to […]
Brooking Institute By Hippolyte Fofack The devastating consequences of the Ukraine crisis continue to highlight the need to urgently deliver the African Union’s flagship project of “Silencing the Guns by 2020” in a region where conflicts and their fallout, while underreported in the international media, have been wide-ranging, severe, and increasing in intensity and cost. More than […]
New Security Beat By Matthew Gallagher The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) poses numerous challenges for the Nile river basin, but it also presents an opportunity for regional collaboration and shared prosperity, said Aaron Salzberg, Director of the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina and Wilson Center Global Fellow, at a recent event hosted by the University of North […]
Algeria Introduction Algeria is located in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to its north (1200 km of coastline), Morocco to the west, Tunisia to the east, Libya to the southeast, Mauritania and Western Sahara to the southwest, and Mali and Niger to the south. The country covers an area of 2,381,741 km2 and […]
African leaders, the IMF and the World Bank on Friday appealed for rapid international action to help African countries respond to the coronavirus pandemic that will cause the continent’s economy to shrink by 1.25% in 2020, the worst reading on record. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told ministers, U.N. officials and others that the African […]
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