Africa’s fossils fuel trap
•A Response to “The Divestment Delusion” By Nnimmo Bassey and Anabela Lemos The greatest share of the burden of addressing climate…
Russia has big plans for Africa
•America Must Push Back—Without Getting Dragged In By Samuel Ramani The day after the military staged a coup in Burkina Faso…
Africa is beset with coups and conflicts: how the trend can be reversed
By Adem K Abebe On the evening of 15 February 2022, reports emerged that key police and military officials in Djibouti were…
African vaccine producer could be blocked by Moderna patents–Health groups
By Geoffrey York A Canadian-supported project to produce mRNA vaccines for Africa could be derailed by patents that U.S. manufacturer…
BioNTech unveils plans for container vaccine factories in Africa
•Facilities will be able to make various mRNA-based vaccines, including Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 jab, says German firm By Gökhan Ergöçün German…
Mapping Africa’s natural resources
•Nearly half the world’s gold and one-third of all minerals are in Africa. Here’s a look at the resources African…
White Malice: how the CIA strangled African independence at birth
By Henning Melber Historian Susan Williams grew up in Zambia. Like other scholars of her generation raised in former settler societies of…
African Union adopts Swahili as an official working language
By John Wanjohi Swahili has been adopted as an official working language for the African Union (AU). The African Union’s heads…
Trade between Africa and China reached an all-time high in 2021
By Carlos Mureithi Trade between Africa and China rose to a record high last year, according to recently released data by China’s customs…
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards sets sights On Africa
By ADF Staff It’s impossible to say how many lives might have been saved when five people connected to a…