Lisa Vives

Jul 18, 2024 | usafricaonline.com | Lisa Vives |Rwanda's President Kagame |Rwanda’s President Kagame |Chido Nwangwu

A battery of threats, arbitrary detention, prosecution on trumped-up charges, killings and enforced disappearances were deployed by the Rwandese President Paul Kagame in the recent presidential election that offered no surprises. In the ballots counted so far, Kagame and his ruling Rwandese Patriotic Front won 99% of the 79% of ballots counted so far. The president won by a similar amount in 2017.

Jul 8, 2024 | pressnewsagency.org | Lisa Vives

Photo: Mohamed “Mo” Ibrahim. Source: Mo Ibrahim Foundation – Photo: 2024By Lisa Vives, Global Information NetworkNEW YORK | 9 July 2024 (IDN) — “Don’t take Africa for granted.” Those are the words of Mohamed “Mo” Ibrahim, head of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation that provides an African voice on current global challenges.

May 20, 2024 | pressnewsagency.org | Lisa Vives

Source: Global Information Network. – Photo: 2024By Lisa Vives, Global Information NetworkNEW YORK | 21 May 2024 (IDN) — South African students at the University of Cape Town are setting up encampments in solidarity with the people of Palestine, joining a global movement led by students around the world and joined by academic and other staff. They’re calling for their institutions to be transparent about their links to Israel and to divest and cut ties with Israel or Israeli-linked institutions.

May 5, 2024 | pressnewsagency.org | Lisa Vives

Hakuzim/ Desertification threatens the village of Tantaverom. Mbo Malloumu has taken the initiative to plant acacia seedlings to rehabilitate the land. In the past 50 years, Lake Chad basin shrank from 25,000 square kilometers to 2,000.

Apr 1, 2024 | pressnewsagency.org | Lisa Vives

Photo source: Global Information Network – Photo: 2024By Lisa Vives, Global Information NetworkNEW YORK | 1 April 2024 (IDN) — A severe dry spell in southern Africa linked to the El Nino weather pattern is crippling the nations of Malawi and Zambia. Zimbabwe has seen much of its crops decimated, underlining concerns by the UN World Food Program that numerous nations in Southern Africa are on the brink of a hunger crisis.