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Beitrag vom 02.11.2023

BBC News

Agoa Forum: Has the US trade pact helped Africa?

By Jewel Kiriungi

BBC News, Nairobi

The future of what was billed as a game-changing trade agreement between Africa and the US is up for discussion in the South African city of Johannesburg over the next few days, with calls for it to be turned into a much longer-term pact, despite some criticism of the deal.

Beitrag vom 02.11.2023

BBC News

Migrants to Europe dying in gun battles and car crashes

By Nick Thorpe

Lethal exchanges of gunfire between smugglers and fatal car crashes have made the migrant route through the Western Balkans into the EU even more treacherous in recent months. And yet the number of arrivals keeps rising.

A gun battle between rival gangs last week left at least three people dead, believed to be Afghans. The shootings took place in derelict Serbian farm buildings a few hundred metres from the Hungarian border fence.

Beitrag vom 31.10.2023

BBC News

US to remove Uganda and three other African countries from Agoa trade deal

By Gloria Aradi

US President Joe Biden has revealed plans to expel Uganda, Gabon, Niger and the Central African Republic (CAR) from a special US-Africa trade programme.

The countries were either involved in "gross violations" of human rights or not making progress towards democratic rule, the president said.

The US introduced the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) in 2000.

Beitrag vom 29.10.2023

Reuters

Congo spent seven-times over budget on Francophone Games - minister

By Sonia Rolley and Ange Adihe Kasongo

Democratic Republic of Congo spent $324 million, or seven times as much as planned, to host the delay-plagued International Francophone Games in July, Finance Minister Nicolas Kazadi said.

The Games, which are held every four years with the aim of promoting the French language, were pushed back two years from 2021 to bring infrastructure up to international standards.

Beitrag vom 29.10.2023

RFI

Les enjeux de la visite du chancelier allemand Olaf Scholz au Nigeria et au Ghana

Le chancelier allemand se rend, à compter de ce dimanche 29 octobre, pour la troisième fois en Afrique depuis son entrée en fonction, il y a moins de deux ans. Olaf Scholz va visiter le Nigeria et le Ghana. Le président de la République fédérale d'Allemagne, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, visitera lui à partir du lundi 30 octobre la Tanzanie et la Zambie. Deux déplacements qui illustrent l’intérêt grandissant de Berlin pour l’Afrique.

Beitrag vom 28.10.2023

Deutsche Welle

Dauerprotest in Kameruns "Geisterstädten"

Isaac Kaledzi Accra | Jean Marie Ngong Song Bamenda

Verlassene Büros, leere Märkte und Langeweile: Jeden Montag steht im englischsprachigen Teil Kameruns das Leben still. Separatisten protestieren so gegen die Regierung. Die "Geisterstädte" schaden der Wirtschaft massiv.

Beitrag vom 25.10.2023

taz

Konfliktforscher über Benin und Niger:„Frauen brechen die Einnahmen weg“

von Katrin Gänsler

Unter der Militärherrschaft in Niger leidet auch Nachbarland Benin, sagt der beninische Konfliktforscher Kamal Donko. Nicht nur im Kampf gegen Terror.

taz: Herr Donko, vor knapp 3 Monaten hat in Niger das Militär geputscht. Was bedeutet das für den Norden von Benin, das direkt an Niger grenzt?