Yinka Adegoke
Editor, Semafor Africa at Semafor
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1 week ago |
semafor.com | Yinka Adegoke
Two leading East African political activists who claim they were abducted and tortured by security agents in Tanzania are suing that country’s government and those of Kenya and Uganda for their alleged involvement.
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2 weeks ago |
semafor.com | Mathias Hammer |Yinka Adegoke
US President Donald Trump’s top Africa diplomat, Troy Fitrell, has told colleagues he will leave the State Department in mid-July, three people familiar with the matter told Semafor. Fitrell, a 30-year career diplomat who has worked across the African continent, is temporarily heading up the department’s Bureau of African Affairs, and has been the most public proponent of the new administration’s Africa policy, briefing both the media and Congress on Washington’s priorities.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Mathias Hammer |Yinka Adegoke
19 hours agoEntire Fulbright board quits, citing Trump administration interferenceAll 12 members of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned on Tuesday, saying that the Trump administration "has usurped the authority of the …1 hour agoThe real 'Epstein files' story is misunderstood. Here's what the government is still keeping secret. The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein is haunting the Trump administration.
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3 weeks ago |
semafor.com | Yinka Adegoke
A steep decline in Chinese development finance is reshaping how energy projects are funded across Africa, accelerating a shift toward private capital and clean energy solutions, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency. Chinese development finance institutions (DFIs) — once pivotal players in African infrastructure — have slashed their energy investments on the continent by more than 85% since 2015.
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3 weeks ago |
semafor.com | Yinka Adegoke
The Trump administration is working out the final details for a US-Africa Leaders Summit on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September that will be “almost entirely focused on economic growth,” according to its top Africa official. Troy Fitrell, head of the US State Department’s Africa bureau, said he had submitted his recommendations for an event he sees as an opportunity for commercial and market advocacy.
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Great column by @BBSimons on what Fitch's downgrade of Afreximbank says about the development bank's aggressive commercial client strategy https://t.co/q8UrRUG3nB