January 23
Africa: Update From Editor On Future Plans
When President Barack Obama hosted his US-Africa Summit in August 2014, my roundups in AfricaFocus Bulletin featured critical analysis of the likely outcome and the issues that… Read more »
November 15, 2022
Africa: Africa/Global - "Daughter of Africa" Steps Up to Lead On Global Crises
At the climate summit in Egypt last week, President Biden pledged that the United States would take the lead on the climate crisis. But his speech was eclipsed the same day by a… Read more »
October 25, 2022
Mozambique: Africa/Global - Remembering Valeriano Ferrão and Charles Sherrod
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October 10, 2022
Africa: Africafocus 3.0 - Not ´a Nation of Immigrants´
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July 20, 2022
Africa: 'Oligarchs of All Nations Should Pay Their Taxes'
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June 09, 2022
Africa: Ukraine, Africa, and Our Planet
"An end to this terrible war based on dialogue must be the international community's highest priority. Support to the people of Ukraine must be matched by efforts to advance… Read more »
May 11, 2022
Africa: Debt, IFFs, and Inequality in Africa
"43 African governments are facing expenditure cuts totalling $183 billion (equivalent to 5.4 percent of GDP) over the next five years, reveals new analysis from Oxfam and… Read more »
April 21, 2022
Africa: Climate Put On Back Burner By War
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March 25, 2022
Africa: Africa/Global - Updates From Africafocus
Editor's Note - This is the first AfricaFocus Bulletin since January. Towards the end of that month, major issues with my home office computer systems crippled the interface which… Read more »
January 20, 2022
Africa: What We Know About the Owners of the Bronx Building That Burned
After a Sunday morning fire left 17 dead, eight of them children, people started sifting through the details, looking for the patterns of absentee ownership and neglect that… Read more »
January 19, 2022
Gambia: January 9 Fire Devastates Gambian Community in New York
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December 23, 2021
Africa: USA/Africa - Pandora Papers Keep Giving
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November 23, 2021
Africa: From Climate Denial to Deceit and Delay #AfricaClimateCrisis
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November 02, 2021
Africa: The Heat Is On! Time to Act! #AfricaClimateCrisis
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August 26, 2021
Mozambique: 'Most Egregious Corruption Case of the 21st Century' Gets Little Coverage
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July 27, 2021
Africa: USA/Africa - Building Back Better? Or Not?
Editor's Note - Last week marked six months for the Biden administration and for the narrow Democratic majority in Congress. So it seems an appropriate time for a report card on… Read more »
Africa: USA/Global - Let Cuba Live!
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June 14, 2021
Africa: Bad Days for Big Oil (Except in the GOP)
Editor's Note: "Fossil fuel companies are having a big reckoning with climate change this week. Shareholders for Exxon and Chevron voted for measures that could force them to… Read more »
May 31, 2021
Mozambique: War, Intervention, and Solidarity
"No amount of international military assistance will, within two years, create a fighting force that can combat the insurgency. Two other factors complicate external support.… Read more »
Mozambique: Fossil Fuels, Debt, and Corruption
"The scandal of Mozambique's "hidden debts" has already cost the country at least 11 billion US dollars, and has plunged an additional two million people into poverty, according to… Read more »
November 12, 2018
Africa: Why Mining Is Hard to Tax
"In Africa as elsewhere in the world, while energy companies might be somewhat undertaxed, mining companies typically are greatly under-taxed. Indeed, it is only a slight… Read more »
August 18, 2011
Africa: New Data On African Immigrants to U.S.
"From 1980 to 2009, the African-born population in United States grew from just under 200,000 to almost 1.5 million. Today, Africans make up a small (3.9 percent) but growing share… Read more »
June 26, 2008
Mauritius: Cyber-Island Strategy
"Mauritius remains unique in its region in having identified ICT as a fifth pillar of its economy alongside sugar, textiles, tourism and financial services. However, it not… Read more »
September 10, 2006
Africa: Environmental Threats/Opportunities
Many of Africa's ecosystems are not just serving the region, but the whole world, for example, through the carbon soaking value of tropical forests. This alone probably equals or… Read more »
November 14, 2005
Nigeria: Delta Oil And Human Rights
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