Online Presentation: Africa - Politics

Introduction:

The continent of Africa was forever changed by the colonization from the western powers. Now the continent is a land of political struggles and mass genocides, often lost in the news. However, There remains to be hope and strong culture which keeps Africa alive and having a potential future. while a majority of the news out there today is negative, the states and people of Africa remain rich in culture and passion.

Background

Recent News

• Flooding in northern, western and central Africa from BBC

• On a Positive note

• Ebola Virus

• Ivory Coast Ex-head in rare rally

• Zimbabwe bishop 'victim of state'

• Zimbabwe diaspora 'may get vote'

• Nigerian militants call off truce

• Somali violence amid sacking row
• Eritrea rejects Ethiopia warning

• Twelve shot dead by Kenyan police

• UK targets Nigeria's stolen loot

Current Situation

What's happening in Africa's News?

• South Africa

• Zimbabwe

• Somalia
• Somalia-2

• Democratic Repubilc of the Congo
• Ninjas in the DR Congo

Sierra Leone just had an election and many experts are impressed with the transparency of the voting process. There were many incidents of ballot stuffing and voting fruad but they were dealt with in a very fair and effiecent way. The article from BBC explains more

Hope for the future

This is a general article from International Herald Tribune. It talks about the new program trhe UN and World Bank are working on to help developing countries recover assets stolen by corrupt leaders. This article does not specifically deal with Africa but I thought it was a good source.

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