Tag Archives: Africans

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  over 300,000 Africans could lose their lives due to COVID-19, according to a new report by The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).   The report, launched virtually today, says Africa’s fragile health systems could see additional costs being imposed on them because of the growing crisis …

    COMMENT | Rebecca Karagwa | I read from several sources to find out how African leaders and the AU have responded to the Africans being mistreated in China. What I found was that there hasn’t been any collective and serious response to such a humiliation that Africans in China …

Abuja, Nigeria | AFP |  African countries are seething over accounts that Africans are battling stigma and discrimination in China over the coronavirus pandemic, apparently linked to a cluster of cases in the Nigerian community in the southern city of Guangzhou. The African residents say they have suffered forced evictions, arbitrary …

Beijing, China | AFP | US chain McDonald’s has apologised after a sign telling black people they were banned from entering a branch in southern China prompted outrage online, following reports of discriminatory treatment towards Africans in the city. Tensions have flared between police and Africans in the southern metropolis of …

Beijing, China | AFP | Africans in southern China’s largest city say they have become targets of suspicion and subjected to forced evictions, arbitrary quarantines and mass coronavirus testing as the country steps up its fight against imported infections. China says it has largely curbed its COVID-19 outbreak but a recent …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | African leaders who met recently at the African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa were initially set to demand an apology from U.S. President Donald Trump over his alleged reference to their nations as “shithole countries”. Trump denies making the comment. At …

Jerusalem, Undefined | AFP |  Israeli Holocaust survivors are pleading with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel his plan to forcefully expel tens of thousands of African migrants, citing their own experiences as outcasts. “We, who know precisely what it’s like to be refugees, to be homeless and bereft of …

Kampala, Uganda | STEPHEN WEIZMAN | Tens of thousands of Africans who fled misery at home for safety in Israel are living in limbo, fearing deportation though some have lived in the country for more than a decade. Recognising a rising tide of discontent among Israelis over the migrants’ presence in south …

  ⚽️⚽️⚽️ #saintsfc pic.twitter.com/Efl9dABvpC — Southampton FC (@SouthamptonFC) May 1, 2016 Senegalese Sadio Mane spearheaded an African goal rush in the English Premier League at the weekend with his hat-trick inspiring Southampton to a 4-2 triumph over Manchester City. Africans claimed nine of the 27 goals in nine matches, including …

By Andrew M. Mwenda People who are not willing to fight for their freedom and pay the highest price for it do not deserve to be free The idea that only the international community (read the West) can save Africa has gained hegemonic status. This is expressed in many ways: …