The African Executive
MILANO, Italy – “There is a war on drugs, and many of our family members are the enemy. I don’t know how you wage war on your own family.”
It makes no sense to stay here anymore
NewAfrican – Magazine
“IT MAKES NO SENSE TO STAY HERE ANYMORE”
RIVER NILE, UNTENABLE POSITIONS
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SOMALIA: Puntland, Homing On Mental Health
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SOMALIA: Puntland, Oil, Terrorism and Chaos
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Puntland, oil, Terrorism and Chaos
SOUTH SUDAN: “Ethnic Cleansing” Reported
JONGLEI, June 14, 2013 (CISAnews) -Ethnic cleansing.
Fear and Pride of African Women Waiting for their #MeToo
Lome (TOGO) - The professional hell for Akouvi (not her real name) lasted five years. The devil was his new head of Financial Risk Management at a bank in Togo. "At first he seemed to want to go out with me as a friend," Akouvi tells me with a certain reticence.
Domestic Struggle, Foreign Appetites: Why Everybody Wants Mali
DAKAR, Senegal – It’s an arm-wrestling competition. Politicians, military, businessmen, civil society, and foreign powers inside and outside the African continent. Everyone wants Mali for its resources and its geopolitical importance. This vast territory that forms a belt between the Sahel and the Sahara is known for its strategic and human potential
Africa’s Cultural Dilemma: Will Restitution Heal Old Wounds?
DAKAR, Senegal – “We don’t want it to be a nostalgia museum. We want a museum that knows how to enhance the self-esteem of each actor connected to the African world through a perspective of openness and dialogue”. Hamady Bocoum is the director of the Museum of Black Civilizations (MCN) in the Senegalese capital, Dakar
Women are Finally Having their Moment in African Leadership
DAKAR, Senegal - The future of Africa is female. Or so it would seem, judging by the various projects launched within a diversity of sectors thanks to African and international institutions during the last few years.
In Africa, the Jihadist Wave is Spreading like Wildfire
DAKAR, Senegal - “My name is Olivier Dubois, I am French and I am a journalist. I was kidnapped in Gao on April 8th, 2021, by the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM).
Can Anyone Stop Ethiopia’s Civil War?
DAKAR, Senegal - Worried about the worsening of the civil conflict in Ethiopia one year after the start of the violence, some experts are proposing a “Dayton peace process”
Comparing and Competing. Africans Weigh the EU and China’s Investment Strategies
LOMÉ, Togo – While most of the world is glued to the dramatic images of war in Ukraine and Russia’s broader confrontation with the West, a different, even wider, kind of power conflict has been shaking a whole other continent
Framing the Russia-Ukraine War from Africa
LOME', Togo -- “The Chair of the African Union and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission urge the two Parties to establish an immediate ceasefire and to open political negotiations
Explosion in Northern Togo Kills 7 Children
LOME', Togo —Reports from the West African nation of Togo say at least one explosion in the country’s north has killed seven children
Togo Experts Aim to Prevent Islamist Insurgents From Recruiting Youth
Lome, Togo — Authorities in Togo are working to prevent their small, West African nation from becoming the next country in the region to struggle with a violent, spreading, Islamist insurgency
Togo Military Kills Teenagers Mistaken as Militants
Lomé, Togo —Togo's military says one of its aircraft accidentally targeted and killed seven teenagers
Stories and Humanitarian Action (SAHA)
NYC, USA - LOME', TOGO - Matteo Fraschini Koffi is a freelance journalist who writes, photographs and produces documentaries for radio and TV. He works for Italian and foreign media focusing exclusively on Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mercenaries. Private armies in Africa and the risk of a new colonization
LOME', Togo - The world of private military companies (CMP), or "mercenaries", is invading Africa. While the international press continues to focus on Russian Wagner, numerous Western, Middle Eastern and Asian security companies
"EuropAfrique", the (sur)real relationship between the EU and Sub-Saharan Africa
LOMÉ, Togo – On November 21st, Emmanuel Macron organized a debate in the French National Assembly entitled: “Renewed partnerships between France and Africa”. The room, however, was almost empty
Doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: Watch out for “The Hyenas”!
How the Italian TV show called “The Hyenas”(Le Iene)rewarded my work by offering me to a Tunisian smuggler
“You captain”, Why Garrone’s film shouldn’t win an Oscar
LOME', Togo – I was passing through Dakar these past two weeks.