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Contents: American CDC Ebola experts have been blocked from the outbreak zone in DR Congo; WHO considers declaring Ebola outbreak as an international emergency

First lady Melania Trump revealed during an ABC interview aired Friday night that the jacket she wore getting on and off a plane to visit the border was a jab at left-wing media and critics.

African news outlets reported on Friday that dissidents in Cameroon are petitioning the country’s elections management body to annul the October 7 presidential election, citing “massive fraud” in favor of President Paul Biya.

Chinese telecom company Transsion has not sold a single phone in China, but it beat out heavyweight competitors like Samsung and Apple to quietly dominate the African smartphone market, a CNN report revealed Wednesday.

First Lady Melania Trump believes the #MeToo movement is important, but women and men should also have hard evidence when making allegations of sexual assault.

U.S. President Donald Trump recently signed a bill into law to revamp America’s investment efforts in Africa to counter what the United States considers to be “predatory” economic practices across the continent at the hands of China, a move that is expected to benefit countries in the region, the Daily Nation from Kenya reported Monday.

First Lady Melania Trump embarked on a solo trip to Africa this week to celebrate and bring attention to those working with America in fostering the well being of children on the other side of the world.

First Lady Melania Trump went on safari in Kenya on Friday, creating her most iconic moment yet since assuming her role at the East Wing, feeding baby elephants and gazing at wild zebras in images that can’t be described as anything other than breathtaking. 

Brutal acts at the hands of Boko Haram jihadis are leading Muslims to abandon their faith in the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State, the birthplace of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked terrorist group, an African media outlet reported on Wednesday.

First Lady Melania Trump is letting loose on her tour around Africa, rocking playful silhouettes to match her joyous attitude as she had fun with schoolchildren in Malawi on Thursday. 

First Lady Melania Trump spent her second day in Ghana proving she can be fashionable on a dime, rocking a Ralph Lauren-esque ensemble that she quickly transitioned from day to night.

First lady Melania Trump visited babies and mothers at a hospital before tea with Ghanaian first lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo on the first day of her BE BEST Africa tour.

Contents: Namibia may follow South Africa with land confiscation without compensation; Namibia government opposition calls the land reform proposal a ‘sham’; Brief generational history of Namibia

Actor Jeffrey Wright took to Twitter on Tuesday and called First Lady Melania Trump’s trip to Ghana “garbage,” denigrating her for visiting Africa on her first solo tour around the continent.

First Lady Melania Trump made a major style statement in Ghana on Tuesday as she met with schoolchildren during a stop on her Africa tour.

Contents: Cameroon’s Paul Biya continues ethnic cleansing of Anglophones in Southern Cameroons; Cameroon Anglophone separatists act to block 86 yo Paul Biya’s reelection

First Lady Melania Trump departed Washington, D.C. for Africa — her first international solo trip — rocking a festive pair of leopard print Manolo Blahnik stilettos. 

First Lady Melania Trump leaves Monday to visit Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, and Egypt highlighting programs successfully teaching children life well-being skills as part of her BE BEST campaign.

The South Korean destroyer ROKS Munmu the Great sailed close to the disputed Paracel Islands in mid-September, irritating the Chinese even though South Korean officials say the ship was merely seeking refuge from a typhoon.

The nearly 400,000 fatalities linked to the nearly five-year-old civil war in South Sudan exceeds some estimates for the death toll from the slightly older conflict in Syria, according to a U.S. Department of State (DOS)-funded report released this week.

First Lady Melania Trump stunned at the United Nations in New York City, New York on Wednesday as she delivered a speech about her highly-anticipated upcoming trip to Africa. 

Italian general and noted author Carlo Jean has dismissed the possibility of successful military action in Libya and warned that birth control measures need to be implemented to stop the massive future population growth in Africa.

A “horrific escalation of violence” fueled by clashes between security forces and separatist groups in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions has led to the death of 400 “ordinary people” already this year, the human rights group Amnesty International reported this week.

Contents: Zambia denies defaulting on infrastructure loans from China; Zambia faces long term corruption concerns

Austria’s interior minister says the European Union’s migration commissioner is prematurely “throwing in the towel” on the idea of setting up centers for migrants in North Africa.

The Speaker of Tanzanian Parliament Job Ndugai announced on Monday that female MP’s with false eyelashes and false fingernails may no longer enter the legislative house.

Seventeen years after it perpetrated the September 11 terrorist attack, al-Qaeda is arguably stronger and better-positioned than ever.

China’s state-run Global Times ran an op-ed Wednesday denying charges that Beijing is using huge “Belt and Road” infrastructure loans to buy political influence in Africa.

The U.S. military is reportedly deploying more armed MQ-9 Reaper drones to Niger at the request of the local government, even as the U.S. special forces troop presence is scaled back.

More than 80 dead elephants with their tusks removed were discovered “in a famous wilderness area” in Botswana over the past several months.

Contents: China courts African nations as charges of ‘neo-colonialism’ grow; Is Kenya the next Sri Lanka?; Why China’s mothers are refusing to have a second child

China’s debt colonization of Africa is well underway, as one African nation after another takes out gigantic loans from Chinese banks to build infrastructure projects that appear financially unsustainable. Kenya is one of the most heavily indebted countries, but President Uhuru Kenyatta is on his way to Beijing for a summit at which he will reaffirm his commitment to the Belt and Road initiative.

China’s Global Times newspaper published a commentary on Sunday complaining that Western countries warning of debt traps Beijing is setting in impoverished African countries seem “like a loser covering up its own problems,” namely that “African countries do not want to be enslaved to the outside world anymore.”

Protests swept across Uganda’s capital city of Kampala on Friday after police arrested two opposition lawmakers at the Entebbe airport while they attempted to travel to the United States for medical care.

An Ethiopian politician was arrested on Monday on suspicion of multiple human rights violations, which included using lions and tigers to torture political prisoners. 

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper declared in a column Tuesday that the future of world construction will be in China’s hands after the world embraces “One Belt, One Road,” (OBOR), the communist dictatorship’s sprawling infrastructure project threating to send the developing world into insurmountable debt.