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Sudan Military Takes Over, Arrests Prime Minister and Most Cabinet Members

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 25, 2021 11 Comments

“If the transition is interrupted, if one side or the other in this partnership tries to prevail, then the U.S. support for all of these issues, including debt relief, will be in question."...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXQ_RME5cPk

New South African COVID-19 Most Mutated Variant Yet

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 01, 2021 31 Comments

The strain has been linked to “increased transmissibility,” but has not yet been designated as a "Variant of Concern" or a "Variant of Interest."...

CDC Monitoring 200 people in 27 states for Monkeypox

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 22, 2021 11 Comments

Meanwhile, a Beijing vet has died after contracting China's first known case of Monkey B Virus....

South African Activist: Critical Race Theory the ‘Same Toxic and Demented Racial Politics That Set Afire My Homeland’ in Recent Years

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 20, 2021 12 Comments

Rian Malan: "It is exactly these values that have brought South Africa to its knees."...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GzxxtpHSFI#action=share

Egypt’s President Sisi Pressures Ethiopia for Dam Deal

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 08, 2021 10 Comments

Last summer, I reported that Ethiopia completed the initial filling of its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a nearly $5 billion hydroelectricity project.

Guinea Declares Ebola Epidemic, Reporting First Deaths Since 2016 Outbreak

Posted by Leslie Eastman on February 16, 2021 18 Comments

The West African country of Guinea has officially declared that it is dealing with an Ebola epidemic after the deaths of at least three people from the virus.

Israeli TV Reports: Iranian Agents Caught Scouting Israeli, U.S. Embassies in East Africa for Terrorist Attacks

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on February 02, 2021 17 Comments

A major Iranian terror attack on the U.S., Israeli, and Emirati embassies in an East African nation has been foiled, Israel media reports say. The authorities in an unnamed African country have arrested several Iranian agents involved in scouting diplomatic missions for a terrorist attack, the Israeli public broadcaster Kan disclosed on Monday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq1FGVgz6Os

Boko Haram Claims Responsibility for the ‘Kidnapping of Hundreds of Schoolboys’ in Nigeria

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 15, 2020 11 Comments

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015: Boko Haram technically defeated. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on December 1, 2020: War against Boko Haram far from over. Boko Haram, the radical Islamic group that has been terrorizing Nigeria for years, claimed their militants kidnapped hundreds of schoolboys in the northwestern state of Katsina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c1B0Z5Ozvg&t=1s

Prime Minister Netanyahu Welcomes Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, More Airlifts Planned

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 06, 2020 11 Comments

Amid an escalating armed conflict in northern Ethiopia, Israel has kick started an operation aimed at airlifting around 2000 Ethiopian Jews from the country. The first flight of this mission arrived on Thursday carrying 319 members of Ethiopia's Jewish community. They were greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leading members of his government at Ben Gurion airport.

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tweets ‘Nile is Ours,’ Drawing Ire of Egypt and the U.S.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on July 29, 2020 41 Comments

While the world focuses on the COVID pandemic and China's shenanigans, a potential conflict has been brewing between Ethiopia and Egypt involving the waters of the Blue Nile. This month, Ethiopia completed the initial filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a nearly $5 billion hydroelectricity project. The country plans to fill the rest of the dam over the next five years, a prospect that worries downstream Egypt, which depends on the Nile for freshwater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pvQbs4UULA

New Report Reveals China’s Massive Surveillance Build-Up in Africa

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on May 23, 2020 12 Comments

China is running a massive surveillance network in Africa, reveals a new report published by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The intelligence gathering operation was most likely run through State-owned Chinese companies involved in building critical government infrastructure. These firms have built or renovated around 186 top government buildings and 14 sensitive governmental telecommunication networks across the African continent, which include a number of presidential palaces, parliaments, and military installations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Zv1Sr2kvI

The world begins to “social distance” itself from China in the wake of the pandemic

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 18, 2020 26 Comments

As nations around the world struggle to deal with outbreaks of the Wuhan coronavirus, China is now experiencing the first phase of what could be considered social distancing on an international scale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGcbNn4Vk1w&t=86s

During Passover and Holy Week 2020, the world experiences a challenging set of ‘plagues’

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 12, 2020 26 Comments

The world is certainly experiencing a challenging set of plagues during Passover Week 2020.

My Evacuation from South Africa to Germany

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 05, 2020 22 Comments

Having reported news for almost six years, I seldom become a subject of it myself. Yesterday was one such rare exception as I was repatriated from South Africa to Germany.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYOPUAy-E78

Wuhan Virus Watch: New Orleans May be “Hot Spot” Because of Mardi Gras

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 25, 2020 14 Comments

Currently, the US is reporting over 54,000 coronavirus cases and 775 deaths. Louisiana officials say their state has 1388 cases and 11 deaths. They also predict that New Orleans will be a coronavirus "hot spot," after over a million people celebrated Carnival in the area for more than a month, culminating in Mardi Gras at the end of February.

WHO Declares International Emergency Over Ebola Outbreak

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 19, 2019 9 Comments

Five years after a significant outbreak in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared another international emergency over Ebola. The spread of the Ebola virus, which began in the central African nation of Congo, has been designated as a "public health emergency of international concern," a WHO spokesperson said.

Record Number of African Nationals Flood Our Southern Border

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 17, 2019 16 Comments

In her post about the World Health Organization declaring Ebola outbreaks the "new normal," Leslie noted that 350 people from the Congo turned up at our southern border. It appears this was not an anomaly and that a record number of African nationals from a range of countries are arriving in America via Mexico.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9rFV7shJSk

WHO Declares Large Ebola Outbreaks as the New Normal

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 10, 2019 11 Comments

We have followed the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for over six months. Officials have reported nearly 3,000 cases of the hemorrhagic disease. However, the actual number of infected Congolese may be a third higher than figures show, experts have warned.

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