Most of the conversation about African migration focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, human trafficking to and across the Mediterranean Sea, and Europeans who are unwilling to receive migrants. In the United States, where President Donald Trump’s administration takes an increasingly alarming stance on immigration, it’s also the Global South that’s seen…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
South Africa has expressed its concern over a United States decision to exclude it from the list of countries receiving a last-minute exemption on steel and aluminium tariffs, and has submitted a formal request for the exclusion. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said the tariffs that…
Egypt and Senegal are among at least eight members of the United Nations Security Council calling immediately for an emergency meeting, following Wednesday’s announcement by President Donald Trump that the U.S. will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and plan to move its embassy. The UNSC members’ response came…
A terror attack in New York City on Tuesday has brought renewed attention to the United States Diversity Visa program – the immigration pathway that brought the alleged attacker into the U.S. – but the truth is that President Donald Trump announced three months ago his intent to end the…
In the United States, President Donald Trump has announced his support for an immigration bill that would work on a point-based system that’s likely to limit applicants, including many Africans, who previously obtained visas under the U.S. Diversity Visa program. Called the RAISE Act, it “eliminates the outdated Diversity Visa…
President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Jubilee party in Kenya have hired British data firm Cambridge Analytica to boost their candidates’ chance of success, according to The Star. The firm – with teams of data scientists, campaign strategists, researchers, and content and digital marketing pros – uses the power of big…
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, who met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi at the weekend, will meet with United States President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday to continue discussions on the renewed Middle East peace effort. The Egyptian president reaffirmed a commitment to the two-state solution and emphasized the…
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, says Africa faces a triangle of disaster because of youth unemployment, poverty, and environmental and climate impacts. “Everywhere you find this triangle of disaster you always find terrorists,” Adesina said in a Financial Times interview published Monday. The article focused on how…
New United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has reiterated the U.N. position on protecting refugees, joining the chorus of international voices concerned over President Donald Trump’s stance on those seeking help from the United States, and other countries with similar closed-border policies. “Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution are finding more…
There’s been much speculation about United States president-elect Donald Trump’s stance toward African nations, in terms of both foreign policy and foreign aid. Reports from the U.S. in recent days have discussed a survey questionnaire sent to government employees that asks about the value of African aid programs, counterterrorism efforts…
President Ian Khama, the Botswanan president who made his disapproval of American president-elect Donald J. Trump abundantly clear during the campaigns, has yet to congratulate him as is customary. “The international norm is that you congratulate somebody after they have taken office. So the President is not in a rush,”…
Ban Ki-Moon was in Morocco for Tuesday’s high-level sessions at COP22, but perhaps it comes as no surprise that most of the questions at the Marrakech press conference were about Donald J. Trump, the president-elect of the United States who has denied the reality of climate change as a U.S….
As the world recovers from post-election America and adjusts to president-elect Donald J. Trump, analysts have turned to what a Trump presidency means in the future of African nations. Yet there is a lot less conversation about how Americans might need the wisdom of Africans in their future too. How the…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
The pollsters, the parties, much of the American population – they all thought American presidential candidate Donald J. Trump would never win. But none of them worked at BrandsEye, a South African data firm that analyzed social media posts to make the right call. Jean Pierre Kloppers, CEO of the startup,…
Thousands of angry Americans took to the streets of New York City, Chicago and other major cities in demonstrations against the election of Republican candidate Donald J. Trump to the United States presidency. Protesters clustered at the Trump Tower building, in Columbus Circle and other high-profile Manhattan sites chanting “not…