HELGA DICKOW In most multilingual African countries, language policy is a highly charged and controversial issue. It touches on regional identity, religion and political power – as is evident in Chad, in central Africa. Around 130 languages are spoken in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious Chad. The two official languages are Standard Arabic and French. Neither […]
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The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries. Zach Montague and Madeleine Ngo A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday June 5 struck down a slate of immigration policies enacted by the Trump administration, writing […]
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KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA It is very appropriate that this Africa Forward Summit is being held in Kenya. Two weeks ago, a Kenyan marathon runner, Sabastian Sawe, did what had been considered impossible: by running a marathon in under two hours! What we have set ourselves here is also a marathon—and we must show the same resilience […]
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Loud and expressive mourners are common at funerals around the world — but in parts of Kenya, some of them may be paid workers ASA WALLIN The body of Tom Ochieng Mima is dressed in formal funeral finery, casket shaded from the hot western Kenyan sun as family and friends of the late 64-year-old settle […]
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The country has vast reserves of the ore that is a source material for aluminum. But citizens still languish in poverty. JAUME PORTELL CANO & NURIA VILA COMA Mamadou Aliou walks through the small village of Bembou Silaty in northwestern Guinea carrying an irresolvable contradiction. The 38-year-old works in the environmental health and safety department […]
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MARK HALLAM Members of the lower house of the French parliament unanimously voted to abolish a series of royal edicts known as the “Code noir” or Black Code. The bill stops short of some lawmakers’ demands like possible reparations. French lawmakers on Thursday, May 28 voted to formally repeal slavery-era laws that defined the legal […]
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