By Sakshi Tiwari– March 16, 2022 China aims to finish building its Tiangong space station and make it operational by the end of this year. A new report claims that Beijing is hoping to turn it into a money-spinner, besides using it as a hub of various space activities. According to a senior human spaceflight program official, […]
Asankao doesn’t recite these painful words in conversation. She recites them on stage in the play “Hatzuya” (“Torn”), which she wrote following the protests, feeling that there had to be more ways besides taking to the streets and protesting on social media to recruit people to support the fight of the Ethiopian community. “Torn,” which […]
“At the end of the day, terrorism has no religion, nation or color.” Türkiye’s president Tayyip Erdogan explains why his country is blocking Sweden and Finland from joining NATO. “Türkiye wants the candidate countries (Sweden and Finland) to curb the activities of all terrorist organisations and extradite the members of these organizations.” ”The threats against […]
By Ashley Lime During colonial rule in Africa, thousands of cultural artefacts were plundered. African countries want them back and major museums across Europe have agreed to loan the famous Benin Bronzes back to Nigeria. Now France has launched a report calling for thousands of African art in its museums to be returned to the continent. […]
DW Space is a battleground for dominance among major powers. About a fifth of all satellites belongs to the military and are used for spying. The US launches two more this year. For a spy satellite, America’s NROL-44 is a massive, open secret — both in size and fact. We know that the US National Reconnaissance […]
For two decades, the Pentagon has been applying the “Rumsfeld/Cebrowski doctrine” to the “wider Middle East“, and “The Horn of Africa“. Several times, it thought of extending it to the “Caribbean Basin“, but I refrained from doing so, by only concentrating its power on its first target. The Pentagon acts as an autonomous decision-making body […]
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 […]
The African Report By Jane Roussel Photographer Bas Uterwijk has attempted to to reconstruct the faces of Akhenaten and Nerfertiti, King and Queen of Ancient Egypt. Remarkable modern portraits achieved through the use of artificial intelligence. By the end of the 18th Dynasty, Akhenaten and Nefertiti were King and Queen of Egypt. Not much is known […]
Counter Punch, by KENNETH GOOD The Congo won independence from Belgium in June 1960 with Patrice Lumumba, age 35, as Prime Minister. Immediately it began to fall apart, under revanchist Belgian assault, Cold War pressures, adjacent settler colonial reaction and collaborationist Congolese elites like Moise Tshombe and Joseph Desire Mobutu. On 12 July Lumumba and […]
By Rita Pankhurst “Highly placed Ethiopian women, who combined worldliness, politics and religion are seen again and again in Ethiopian history. Rita Pankhurst recalls how women have been as important and influential as any man.” Lucy, alias Dinknesh – literally “you are lovely” – is the first woman in Ethiopian history, indeed in the history […]
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