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IPAEA is deeply concerned about the reports of the “extrajudicial deportation” of American journalist @margotkiser from Kenya. We urge the government to explain its actions and restore Kiser’s rights as a journalist.
#PressFreedom
#PressFreedom
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OUR STATEMENT.
The Foreign Press Association, Africa (FPAA) strongly condemns the arrest and detention of our colleague, Samuel Getachew, alongside Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane, an Associated Press journalist and videographer, by Ethiopian authorities on Friday, 2 October.
The Foreign Press Association, Africa (FPAA) strongly condemns the arrest and detention of our colleague, Samuel Getachew, alongside Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane, an Associated Press journalist and videographer, by Ethiopian authorities on Friday, 2 October.
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The Fourth Estate requested information on salary deductions paid into the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, known as Mahama Cares.
The information requested included the names of appointees who lost three months’ salary for failing to declare their assets and the total amount paid by tate’s coffers.
In a response, the Deputy Controller in charge of Finance and Administration, Emelia Osei Derkyi, said the Department could not release the information.
Although she admitted the request was in the public interest, she was quick to add that the details of individuals affected were supplied to the Department in confidence.
Read more: thefourthestategh.com/2026/08/mfwa-d…
The information requested included the names of appointees who lost three months’ salary for failing to declare their assets and the total amount paid by tate’s coffers.
In a response, the Deputy Controller in charge of Finance and Administration, Emelia Osei Derkyi, said the Department could not release the information.
Although she admitted the request was in the public interest, she was quick to add that the details of individuals affected were supplied to the Department in confidence.
Read more: thefourthestategh.com/2026/08/mfwa-d…
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Find out which promises have been fulfilled and which are yet to be delivered here: ghana.dubawa.org/false-ndc-has-…
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⛓️🇬🇭 90 jours après le vote historique de l'ONU sur la traite négrière, Christiane Taubira est à Accra pour transformer les mots en actes.
👉 Notre correspondante Claudia Lacave l'a interrogée.
👉 Notre correspondante Claudia Lacave l'a interrogée.
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Au Ghana, le sommet "Prochaine Étape" dédié à la justice de réparation se tient à Accra. Il doit concrétiser la résolution de l'ONU reconnaissant la traite transatlantique comme "le plus grave crime contre l’humanité". Les explications de notre correspondante, Claudia Lacave.
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Parliament has passed the Anti-LGBTQ Bill after heated debates and months of national discussion.
#CitiNewsroom #CitiFM #GhanaNews
#CitiNewsroom #CitiFM #GhanaNews
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🇰🇪 "Où sont IB, Goïta et Tiani ?"
Alors que #Nairobi accueille le sommet #AfricaForward, co-présidé par le #Kenya et la France, une manifestation dénonçant un "néocolonialisme français" a été sévèrement dispersée par les forces de l’ordre ce matin. Sur place, notre journaliste Sarah fait le point.
Alors que #Nairobi accueille le sommet #AfricaForward, co-présidé par le #Kenya et la France, une manifestation dénonçant un "néocolonialisme français" a été sévèrement dispersée par les forces de l’ordre ce matin. Sur place, notre journaliste Sarah fait le point.
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Prof PLO Lumumba now exposes how African leadership either does not see the current scramble for Africa by former colonizers which is now framed as "relationships" or they just don't care. He reveals it in their behaviour as they allow the imperialist to have unfettered access to ucture.
"Look at energy now, who controls the oil sector in the continent of Africa? A good chunk of it is Total Energy (France). If you look at the discovery of oil in Uganda and who is investing in the pipeline? Total Energy. You go to Mozambique, the gas is Total Energy and if they are not coming through Total Energy, it's Rubi (France). @HatsOffff @Spearhead_Af
"Look at energy now, who controls the oil sector in the continent of Africa? A good chunk of it is Total Energy (France). If you look at the discovery of oil in Uganda and who is investing in the pipeline? Total Energy. You go to Mozambique, the gas is Total Energy and if they are not coming through Total Energy, it's Rubi (France). @HatsOffff @Spearhead_Af
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Barely three weeks ago, I published the following piece in French and spoke about how African governments gaslight their youth , promising them that education is the path out of poverty, then creating no job opportunities, and telling them their failure is a result of their laziness.
And today, I stumble on this comment made by Ghanaian MP.
Here’s the translated article:
Growing up in most of our African countries, fundamentally impoverished, means hearing one simple message: to live with dignity and escape poverty, the clear path is education. Not just any type of education: the academic one. Parents invest everything they have: time, money, hope, into their children’s schooling, convinced that it is the key to freedom and the way out of misery.
They sacrifice themselves, pay for private lessons, hire tutors, sometimes at the cost of their own survival, stretching every resource, in the hope that one day this investment will bear fruit. The promise made to the youths is simple: work hard, focus on your studies, and the world will open up to you.
But the world, in these countries, is not built to receive these efforts. Schools are often broken, incapable of functioning properly. Teachers go on strike for lack of pay. Infrastructure crumbles. After years of effort, the child, now an adult, emerges with a diploma in hand.
And then comes the brutal reckoning: no jobs. The market is saturated and these young people sometimes find themselves learning a trade, work once reserved for those who had “failed” at school. The skills once deemed inferior become their only refuge.
This is where the psychological manipulation begins, what is known in English as gaslighting. The system has betrayed them, because the state failed to create the necessary opportunities. It now seeks to make them believe that their failure is personal. They are told, repeatedly, that it is not the government’s job to employ them, that their difficulty finding work is the result of their laziness, lack of creativity and that true success lies in entrepreneurship: they must “create their own opportunities.”
Entrepreneurship, presented as emancipatory, is often nothing but a veil. It conceals a structural failure and transfers the weight of the system’s collapse onto the shoulders of young people who were promised the world if they followed the rules. The narrative is so skillfully crafted that it sounds like wisdom. It urges them to work hard, be self-reliant, take charge of their own lives.
But behind this illusion lies a cruelty that dares not speak its name. The failure is not theirs alone; it belongs equally to the society and to the state itself. We live in a world where injustice hides behind the language of personal development. To survive, young people must carry the weight of a state that cannot or will not support them. Many do so, in silence, believing they have failed when in fact they have simply been betrayed.
The bankruptcy of the state and the betrayal of trust can no longer remain invisible. We must fight for a society where education is not a gamble on hope but a genuine bridge to opportunity, where governments build real pathways for their citizens to prosper, and where young people are no longer blamed for a system that crushes them. One that was never designed to ensure their flourishing.
Farida Bemba Nabourema, A Disillusioned African Citizen!
And today, I stumble on this comment made by Ghanaian MP.
Here’s the translated article:
Growing up in most of our African countries, fundamentally impoverished, means hearing one simple message: to live with dignity and escape poverty, the clear path is education. Not just any type of education: the academic one. Parents invest everything they have: time, money, hope, into their children’s schooling, convinced that it is the key to freedom and the way out of misery.
They sacrifice themselves, pay for private lessons, hire tutors, sometimes at the cost of their own survival, stretching every resource, in the hope that one day this investment will bear fruit. The promise made to the youths is simple: work hard, focus on your studies, and the world will open up to you.
But the world, in these countries, is not built to receive these efforts. Schools are often broken, incapable of functioning properly. Teachers go on strike for lack of pay. Infrastructure crumbles. After years of effort, the child, now an adult, emerges with a diploma in hand.
And then comes the brutal reckoning: no jobs. The market is saturated and these young people sometimes find themselves learning a trade, work once reserved for those who had “failed” at school. The skills once deemed inferior become their only refuge.
This is where the psychological manipulation begins, what is known in English as gaslighting. The system has betrayed them, because the state failed to create the necessary opportunities. It now seeks to make them believe that their failure is personal. They are told, repeatedly, that it is not the government’s job to employ them, that their difficulty finding work is the result of their laziness, lack of creativity and that true success lies in entrepreneurship: they must “create their own opportunities.”
Entrepreneurship, presented as emancipatory, is often nothing but a veil. It conceals a structural failure and transfers the weight of the system’s collapse onto the shoulders of young people who were promised the world if they followed the rules. The narrative is so skillfully crafted that it sounds like wisdom. It urges them to work hard, be self-reliant, take charge of their own lives.
But behind this illusion lies a cruelty that dares not speak its name. The failure is not theirs alone; it belongs equally to the society and to the state itself. We live in a world where injustice hides behind the language of personal development. To survive, young people must carry the weight of a state that cannot or will not support them. Many do so, in silence, believing they have failed when in fact they have simply been betrayed.
The bankruptcy of the state and the betrayal of trust can no longer remain invisible. We must fight for a society where education is not a gamble on hope but a genuine bridge to opportunity, where governments build real pathways for their citizens to prosper, and where young people are no longer blamed for a system that crushes them. One that was never designed to ensure their flourishing.
Farida Bemba Nabourema, A Disillusioned African Citizen!
Young Ghanaians should start looking at entrepreneurship as a way out of unemployment... - Francis-Xavier Sosu (Madina MP)
#GHOneNews #EIBNetwork
#GHOneTV #NewsAlert
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🇸🇳 Non-fasting Muslim community throws Ramadan celebrations in Senegal
Despite the dust and the heat, thousands of members of a unique Senegalese Muslim community, the Baye Fall, are busy preparing the iftar meal for breaking the Ramadan fast — but they themselves neither fast, nor pray.
Despite the dust and the heat, thousands of members of a unique Senegalese Muslim community, the Baye Fall, are busy preparing the iftar meal for breaking the Ramadan fast — but they themselves neither fast, nor pray.
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Des bulldozers israéliens ont commencé mardi à démolir sans avertissement préalable des bâtiments du siège de l'Unrwa à Jérusalem-Est, l'agence des Nations unies pour les réfugiés palestiniens, qui dénonce une "attaque sans précédent" ⤵️
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🇬🇧 “Ils font tourner le pays pendant que les autres dorment” : au Royaume-Uni, des employés immigrés racontent à l’AFP leur travail de nuit, essentiel mais invisible, alors que Londres durcit sa politique migratoire.
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Premier résultat de mon reportage dans le Haut-Ghana oriental, sur l'infiltration terroriste et la réaction de la société civile.
Un reportage qui me tenait tellement à cœur que je l'ai poursuivi pendant 3 mois.
dw.com/fr/infiltratio…
Un reportage qui me tenait tellement à cœur que je l'ai poursuivi pendant 3 mois.
dw.com/fr/infiltratio…
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Pour voir quelques photos des interlocuteurs, rendez-vous à 13:52 ici: facebook.com/dw.francais/vi…
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1. At some point in the not too distant past, someone casually said in an AfDB report that Africa has 30% of the world's minerals.
2. From that moment on, the statistic took a life of its own. Everyone started using it.
3. When "critical minerals" became a thing, the neat 30% ed: Africa has 30% of the world's critical minerals.
4. Fascinatingly, this stat is completely made up. There is no quantitative geophysical or geological survey data behind it. 😊
5. Here's the thing: there are over 5000 major types of minerals on Earth. But only about a 100 of them are internationally traded to the extent where reliable data on reserves and production exist.
6. If you take those 100 minerals and weight them by production tonnage or trade value, and then compute Africa's share, you get less than 5%.
7. Of course, you can also choose an arbitrary list made up of minerals that Africa has a lot of (such as platinum, cobalt, & chromite) and declare that based on that basket alone, Africa has 80% of the world's minerals. Good for laughs but not much else.
8. If one takes the list of critical minerals used by major international institutions, Africa's share of production and reserves is also less than 5% in either case.
9. In the case of rare Earth metals, Africa's share of reserves is about 2%.
10. That is why in 2022, for instance, Australia, with less than 2% of Africa's population, made more from non-fuel minerals than the whole of Africa combined.
(11. Another statistic that is also false is the claim that Africa has 60% of the World's arable land. The original World Bank report on which that claim is based says 45%. And not of the world's arable land but of uncultivated land meeting a number of conditions.)
12. The problem with these flaky stats is that they interfere with strategic thinking: Africa needs to choose its list of important minerals carefully, based on its industrial needs, not based on what some other folks consider to be geopolitically important.
13. That is why during my Bellagio Residency, I spent time developing the STRIVE list of minerals most critical for Africa's transformation.
14. I intend to publish more detailed analysis but here is a short version:
theafricareport.com/397782/critica…
And an even shorter one:
semafor.com/article/11/17/…
15. The critical thing to note is that contrary to popular belief, most African countries are very poor in the minerals needed for industrialisation & infrastructure. When Europe was industrialising in the 19th century, it was a global leader in core industrial minerals (iron, coal, etc).
16. Unless African countries integrate their minerals platforms (heavily aided by digital tech), the continent stands no chance on the geopolitical plane. Unfortunately, most people have been deluded into believing fantasies.
2. From that moment on, the statistic took a life of its own. Everyone started using it.
3. When "critical minerals" became a thing, the neat 30% ed: Africa has 30% of the world's critical minerals.
4. Fascinatingly, this stat is completely made up. There is no quantitative geophysical or geological survey data behind it. 😊
5. Here's the thing: there are over 5000 major types of minerals on Earth. But only about a 100 of them are internationally traded to the extent where reliable data on reserves and production exist.
6. If you take those 100 minerals and weight them by production tonnage or trade value, and then compute Africa's share, you get less than 5%.
7. Of course, you can also choose an arbitrary list made up of minerals that Africa has a lot of (such as platinum, cobalt, & chromite) and declare that based on that basket alone, Africa has 80% of the world's minerals. Good for laughs but not much else.
8. If one takes the list of critical minerals used by major international institutions, Africa's share of production and reserves is also less than 5% in either case.
9. In the case of rare Earth metals, Africa's share of reserves is about 2%.
10. That is why in 2022, for instance, Australia, with less than 2% of Africa's population, made more from non-fuel minerals than the whole of Africa combined.
(11. Another statistic that is also false is the claim that Africa has 60% of the World's arable land. The original World Bank report on which that claim is based says 45%. And not of the world's arable land but of uncultivated land meeting a number of conditions.)
12. The problem with these flaky stats is that they interfere with strategic thinking: Africa needs to choose its list of important minerals carefully, based on its industrial needs, not based on what some other folks consider to be geopolitically important.
13. That is why during my Bellagio Residency, I spent time developing the STRIVE list of minerals most critical for Africa's transformation.
14. I intend to publish more detailed analysis but here is a short version:
theafricareport.com/397782/critica…
And an even shorter one:
semafor.com/article/11/17/…
15. The critical thing to note is that contrary to popular belief, most African countries are very poor in the minerals needed for industrialisation & infrastructure. When Europe was industrialising in the 19th century, it was a global leader in core industrial minerals (iron, coal, etc).
16. Unless African countries integrate their minerals platforms (heavily aided by digital tech), the continent stands no chance on the geopolitical plane. Unfortunately, most people have been deluded into believing fantasies.
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Données concrètes sur les effets du changement climatique. Avec @darbyjack
Sous la pression du changement climatique, le Ghana repense sa santé publique gavi.org/fr/vaccineswor… via @gavi
Sous la pression du changement climatique, le Ghana repense sa santé publique gavi.org/fr/vaccineswor… via @gavi
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