Africa

Why the Giant of Africa Needs to Start Over

Nigeria has always seemed like an impossibility. From the moment of its independence in 1960, observers questioned the country’s viability as a multiethnic, multireligious state. How could a country divided among two major religions and hundreds of different ethnic groups possibly stay together? When the devastating Nigerian civil war broke out in 1967, that skepticism appeared warranted. Perhaps, many concluded, Nigeria wasn’t meant to be.

Selon l’Association pour la Taxation des Transactions en Aide aux Citoyens au Maroc (ATTAC Maroc), les prémisses du drame du vendredi 24 juin 2022 ont été annoncées depuis plusieurs semaines. Elle exige la fin des politiques criminelles financées par l’Union européenne et ses nombreux complices, les Etats, certaines organisations internationales et plusieurs organisations de la société civile.

The deaths of at least 23 African men at the Melilla-Morocco border on June 24, 2022 requires an independent, impartial investigation capable of determining what occurred and who bears responsibility for such loss of life, Human Rights Watch said.

18 clandestins africains sont morts vendredi, lorsque près de 2000 migrants ont tenté de pénétrer par la force dans l’enclave espagnole. Analyse des multiples implications d’un phénomène hors contrôle.

Respectivement peuplées de 84 000 et 87 000 personnes pour une superficie n’excédant jamais les 20 kilomètres carrés, les villes autonomes espagnoles de Ceuta et Melilla sont des plaques tournantes de l’immigration au niveau méditerranéen. Faisant partie, avec plusieurs îlots et archipels, des « places de souveraineté » de notre voisin ibérique, elles constituent la seule frontière terrestre entre Europe et Afrique, au niveau du Maroc.

The border separating the Spanish territory of Melilla and Morocco witnessed a state of chaos on Friday, resulting in the deaths of five migrants after more than 2,000 migrants attempted to storm the border, reported Associated Press.

INTRODUCTION

This paper is partly driven by a recent case of hate speech uttered by an Oromo student at Harvard University (1). In this speech, the student encouraged the Oromo youth to ’eat up the Amhara flesh and drink their blood’ and then implied that such actions are energizing and, indeed, can even make you smarter. (2)

Far from his home in the Republic of Congo, Harvest-Spring Kibonge represents a cookie-cutter immigrant success story. In Senegal, he got an education and then started a business running a modest open-air smoothie shop on one of the capital’s lively beaches.

Long viewed as North Africa’s most isolated and inscrutable country, Algeria is suddenly the belle of the ball. This year, Algeria has hosted official visits from Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and the foreign ministers of France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, and the United States (the first visit by a US secretary of state since 2014). Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman will travel to Algiers next month. Meanwhile, Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has visited Egypt, Italy, Kuwait, Qatar, and Turkey and is expected in Moscow later this year.

A power struggle between eastern and western-based rival governments has brought Libya to the brink of renewed civil war.

U.N. mediators have failed, thus far, to persuade contending factions to agree to a process for national elections.