In Case You Missed It 8/17/15 — 8/23/15

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. The week brings news about the launch of Google’s newest gad­get in sev­er­al African coun­tries, as well as analy­sis from For­eign Affairs mag­a­zine which gives a rat­ing of the Oba­ma admin­is­tra­tion’s Africa pol­i­cy thus far. Google expands…

In Case You Missed It 8/11/15 — 8/16/15

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up.  The week bring news about a live-tweet that made news around the world, a trav­el web­site that is expand­ing into mar­kets in Africa, anoth­er men­ace from the Boko Haram and a crack down on slave own­ers in…

In Case You Missed It 8/4/15 — 8/8/15

 The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing  Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up.  This week brings news about talks of Musev­eni run­ning for re-elec­­tion as pres­i­dent of Ugan­da, Cameroon returns 12,000 Niger­ian refugees, and a Mali hotel siege that ends with 12 peo­ple dead. Mesev­eni seek­ing anoth­er term in office After…

In Case You Missed It 7/29/15 — 8/3/15

  The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up.  The week brings us news about an uproar about ani­mal poach­ing in Zim­bab­we and the con­tro­ver­sy it is caus­ing, as well as news that an esti­mat­ed 178 peo­ple cap­tured by Boko Haram were freed by the…

In Case You Missed It: 6/20/15 — 6/27/15

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. This week brings con­tro­ver­sy over Pres­i­dent Oba­ma’s vis­it to Ethiopia, an elec­tion out­come in Burun­di and a U.S. vis­it by Niger­ian pres­i­dent Muham­madu Buhari.  1. Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma arrived in Ethiopia Sun­day night in the final…

In Case You Missed It: 7/13/15 — 7/19/15

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. This week saw the release of five jailed Ethiopi­an blog­gers, ban­ning of full face veils in Cameroon and the open­ing of sub-Saha­ran Africa’s first Star­bucks.  1. Star­bucks will open its first sub-Saha­ran Africa cof­fee shop in…

In Case You Missed It 07/6/15 – 07/11/15

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and about Africa.  In the week just passed we look at two Africa-relat­ed sto­ries mak­ing head­line news around the world. Police arrest oppo­si­tion par­ty lead­ers in Ugan­da and Ethiopia releas­es blog­gers as Oba­ma vis­it nears. Ugan­da crack down on the oppo­si­tion  In the lead up to elec­tions in…

In Case You Missed It 6/29/15 — 7/5/15

The most impor­tant in this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. In the past week, a con­tro­ver­sial vote was made in Burun­di, anoth­er case of Ebo­la con­firmed in Liberia and a vic­to­ry for LGBT rights in Mozam­bique.  1. While the U.S. cel­e­brates a vic­to­ry for LGBTQ couples…

In Case You Missed It 06/22/15–06/28/15

The most impor­tant of this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up.  AGOA lives on, Buhari pre­pares for U.S. vis­it In the week that just passed, we look at two key sto­ries mak­ing head­line news about Africa. Both the U.S. House and Sen­ate reau­tho­rized AGOA, or the African Growth Opportunity…

In Case You Missed It 6/15/15 — 6/21/15

The most impor­tant of this week’s head­lines out of and con­cern­ing Africa, for those who need help catch­ing up. This week, major steps made in the fight against ille­gal ivory poach­ing, a Den­ver fig­ure runs for pres­i­dent in the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Repub­lic of the Con­go, and Rwan­da weighs chang­ing its con­sti­tu­tion.  1. As part of a…