China denies claims it is luring African countries into debt trap
China is Africa’s largest trading partner.
Month: January 2022
Key points from President Joe Biden address marking anniversary of Capitol insurrection
President Joe Biden argues that U.S democracy is in jeopardy.
President Joe Biden calls Donald Trump a selfish liar
Joe Biden took off the gloves after a year of largely ignoring Trump.
At least three Sudanese protesters killed in fresh mass demonstrations
One of the slain demonstrators took a “live bullet to the head.
Tanzania’s speaker of parliament quits
Job Ndugai infuriated President Samia Suluhu last week when he criticized her over what he called Tanzania’s “excessive” foreign borrowing.
China to appoint special envoy to Africa
The announcement came as a US envoy was due to arrive in Ethiopia to encourage talks to end the fighting in the country’s north.
Officials: Banana-made local brew kills 11 in Rwanda
High levels of methanol were found in the stomachs of victims who drank the brew.
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kenya
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken last November traveled to Africa in a trip that was in part aimed at countering China’s growing influence on the continent.
U.N.: Nearly 400 extrajudicial executions committed last November in DR Congo
More than 10 percent of killings committed by government security forces and the others by armed groups.
Gunmen kidnap Chinese workers in Central Nigeria
Chinese employees have been targeted several times in Nigeria over the last few months.
