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Debt-Trap Diplomacy: China Waives Off Debts Owed by 17 African Countries

Dr. Kankana DebnathAugust 29, 20220

China has officially announced that it will forgive 23 loans for 17 African nations. China waives off debts of the African nations, which are interest-free and had matured by the end of 2021. Chinese FM Wang Yi announced this at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. He has further pledged that China would continue to actively support and finance major infrastructure projects in Africa in agricultural and manufacturing sectors. China will aid towards expanding co-operation in emerging industries such as the digital economy, health, green and low-carbon sectors. Facts and figures of the debts China waives off debts in Botswana, Burundi, Rwanda, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique among the 23 countries. The total amount of waived off debt stands at least at US$113.8...

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Drought and Starvation in East Africa
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Toll Of Climate Change: Droughts And Starvation In East Africa

Dr. Kankana DebnathAugust 22, 20220

Eastern African countries face severe drought and starvation. The ongoing civil war in Northern Ethiopia along with drought and starvation in East Africa are heavily contributing to food insecurity in Africa. The World Health Organization warned that over 50 million people in East Africa faces acute food insecurity. According to a study by the World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization an estimated 7 million children are suffering from malnourishment. As per the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, hundreds of thousands are leaving their homes in search of food or livelihoods. The affected countries are Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda. This year accounts as the fourth season of failed rains in Kenya. It is one of the hard...

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Sexism In Kenyan Politics: Political Patriarchy Tries To Cower Women With Power

Agamapar ChadhaAugust 8, 20220

Much like any politics, Kenya is filled with pompous attitudes, incorrigible remarks and comments. But, what is more, specific in Kenyan politics is the targeting of female politicians and candidates who are bullied by the patriarchal opponents and the public as being equivalent to sex workers and are subjected to being sexually harassed. In 2017 the political representation of women only accounted for 21%. According to a report by the Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission, the Percent of women vying for senate, national assembly, and governor seats had increased from 7% in 2017 to only 11% in 2022. In December 2020, a political party official in Kenya made vulgar comments to a female parliamentarian. While campaigning for their political side, he commented that she was “not a...

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Kenyan Police Brutality: Kenya Follows Coloniser’s Steps

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 27, 20220

Ever since Europeans discovered Africa, history has been filled with squalor and suffering. Slavery, rape, and racism were the main features of the colonial land grab and slicing and dicing of colonies owned and controlled by European kingdoms and nations. Though the purge had ended a long time back, both in Africa and the region where their brethren were traded, discrimination reverberates in different forms in different countries in Africa. Kenya, much like other colonies, after more than 60 years of slavery, achieved its independence from the British in 1963. However, this hasn't stopped discrimination from being entirely abolished and has highlighted the Kenyans as the oppressor regarding the populace of Kenya that followers of Islam. Police enforcement and killings of Muslims h...

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France’s Africa: A Story Of Modern Day Colonialism

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 26, 20220

The French Empire was one of the most powerful in human history. At its height, it controlled almost ten per cent of the world's land area. The country was a dominant global power from Southeast Asia to West Africa. And that was particularly true in Africa. France oversaw territory spanning 17 modern-day nations, from Morocco to the Congo. Under the banner of a "civilising mission," France managed brutal occupations that engorged the empire's wealth. It left a terrible legacy for ordinary Africans – marked by slavery, extraction, and murder. And today, France's empire in Africa is STILL around – in a streamlined, more profitable, and even more exploitative form. In the aftermath of the Second World War, a wave of decolonial movements swept across Africa and Asia. And the French –...

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Sex Weaponised In Ethiopian Civil War: Everything ‘Fair’ In Love And War?

Agamapar ChadhaJune 24, 20220

Except for the Islamic terrorism and regions where the western intervention took place, Africa is heavily underreported, reflecting the world’s discriminatory outlook on Africa and Africans. Like this, many will be unaware of an ongoing civil war in Ethiopia called the Tigray conflict. Breaking out on 3rd November of 2020 after a schism between the Ethiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party and the Tigray’s regional government: Tigray People’s Liberation Front(T.P.L.F). Abiy Ahmed postponed the election on account of the coronavirus. This added more fuel to the fire of the T.P.L.F., which vested all power and had autonomy in Ethiopia before Ahmed’s rise. This power previously held by the Tigray faction was ended. Tigray, in defiance, held their regional election in their are...

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World’s First Wildlife Bond Issued To Conserve South Africa’s Black Rhinos

Pooja YadavMarch 28, 20220

The world’s first wildlife bond has been issued by the planet bank, raising USD 150 million that may partly be used for the conservation of South Africa’s black rhinos The Wildlife Conservation Bond is the world’s first-of-its-kind financial instrument that's outcome-based and can be channelling investments to conserve black rhino populations. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development of the globe Bank has announced that the returns paid by the five-year bond are determined by the speed of growth of animals in two reserves of the Republic of South Africa, the nice Fish River Nature Reserve and also the Addo Elephant parkland. If this program becomes successful it may well be expanded for the protection of black rhinos in Kenya together with other wildlife species l...

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