Category: Pan African Communications
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🇲🇱Mali junta chief to take over killed defence minister’s role
Mali’s junta leader, Assimi Goita, will assume the additional role of defence minister, according to a decree announced on Monday, after the death of the previous minister in large-scale attacks. Mali is facing a security crisis following an assault on junta strongholds led by Tuareg separatists and Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists more than a week ago, during…
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🇰🇪‘Holy Herb’: Kenya’s Rastafarians Fight To Decriminalize Cannabis
Kenya’s Rastafarian community returned to the High Court in November, pressing for the decriminalization of cannabis in religious worship. They argue that the country’s narcotics laws violate their constitutional rights to privacy and faith. Despite cannabis’s central role in Rastafarian worship, adherents face persistent criminalization rooted in colonial-era laws that branded the herb as a…
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🇨🇳🇺🇸Chinese Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over COVID Research Cyberattacks
A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extraditedto the U.S. from Italy. Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities for his alleged links to the Chinese state-sponsored threat group and for orchestrating cyber attacks against American organizations and government agencies between February 2020 and June…
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🇧🇯 Benin leans into painful past to encourage cultural tourism
Tourists crowded beneath the Door of No Return, an arch built by the beach at Ouidah in southern Benin in memory of those crammed onto slave ships bound for the New World. Benin, which held a presidential election on Sunday, has in recent years leaned into its painful past to encourage tourism. Once a key…
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Live from NEDCo Yard, Tamale: President Mahama Inspects New Transformers to Improve Power Supply
President John Dramani Mahama visited the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo) yard in Tamale on April 19, 2026, to inspect new transformers aimed at enhancing power supply reliability in the region. This hands-on inspection highlights ongoing government efforts to tackle persistent distribution challenges, including overloaded transformers and low voltage issues. The initiative builds on recent…
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Chinese man jailed after trying to smuggle 2,200 ants out of Kenya in his luggage
Nairobi, Kenya— A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered a Chinese man to pay a fine of 1 million shillings ($7,746) and gave him a 12-month jail term for trying to smuggle live ants out of the country. The magistrate in the case said a stiff sentence was needed as a deterrent, given a spate of…
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 Bob Marley and Jacob Miller on America, Russia, and the Politics of Control
In a now-famous interview from the late 1970s, Bob Marley and Jacob Miller offered a blunt critique of America and Russia, rejecting the idea that one superpower was morally superior to the other. Speaking from a Caribbean perspective, Marley argued that both nations were effectively working the same game: using fear, influence, and political pressure…
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🇧🇫🇮🇱🇮🇷 Burkina Faso’s Traoré Quietly Balances Tehran and Tel Aviv
Burkina Faso’s military leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has built much of his political identity around a hardline anti-Western posture and public alignment with states that challenge Western influence, especially Iran. Yet behind that rhetoric, he is also said to be maintaining discreet channels with Israel, including approving the credentials of Israel’s ambassador to the wider…
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🇬🇧🇳🇬 Grace Ladoja: Shaping Culture, One Shoe at a Time
When Nike announced a new collaboration with Grace Ladoja, it wasn’t just another celebrity partnership — it was a celebration of heritage, innovation, and the power of cultural storytelling through design. Known for her transformative work in music and fashion, the British-Nigerian creative now steps into a new space: footwear that echoes the rhythm of…
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The Harvest of Blowback: Hillary Clinton’s Admissions on U.S. Funding of Mujahideen, the Rise of Al-Qaeda, and the Soviet Defeat
For years, conspiracy theories have swirled in the darker corners of the internet claiming that the United States government intentionally created or funded the Islamic State (ISIS). While such specific claims regarding ISIS have been repeatedly debunked, a far more complex and well-documented historical truth exists: senior American officials, including former Secretary of State Hillary…
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