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African Cocoa Growers Take Hard Line on Prices – Better Ones Or Else!

Sentinel News ServiceJune 18, 2019

Strike! That’s the sound of the world’s top two producers of cocoa who say they are suspending their sales for better prices. The governments of Ivory Coast and Ghana are trying this time-honored strategy to address the imbalance between farmers’ income and money made by foreign commodity markets who scoop up most of the profit. If the strategy sounds familiar, it’s the same one described in the Greek play Lysistrata where the women withheld affection from their husbands in order to secure peace and end the Peloponnesian War. Currently, the majority of money does not reach the farmers who live

U.S. Hits Ghana with Visa Sanctions in Spat Over Deportees
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U.S. Hits Ghana with Visa Sanctions in Spat Over Deportees

Global Information NetworkFebruary 8, 2019

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and State Department say they will no longer issue visas for certain Ghanaians owing to a “lack of cooperation” by the West African nation – namely its refusal to accept 7,000 Ghanaian nationals that the U.S. wants to deport. 

Violence Against Women – Never Acceptable, Never Ending
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Violence Against Women – Never Acceptable, Never Ending

Global Information NetworkNovember 20, 2018

Violence against women and girls, one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today, remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it, says the U.N. on its webpage “end violence day.” The reality of domestic violence is a plague that affects millions of women, often trapped in a toxic environment they cannot escape. 

African Critics See Dark Side to China’s ‘Charitable’ Loans
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African Critics See Dark Side to China’s ‘Charitable’ Loans

Global Information NetworkSeptember 14, 2018

At the confab, with representatives from 53 of 54 African countries, sky-high numbers were bandied about. Chinese President Xi Jinping announced $60 billion in funds for eight initiatives over the next three years, in areas ranging from industrial promotion, infrastructure construction and scholarships for young Africans.

Mourning Kofi Annan, Remembering Ron Walters
Julianne MalveauxLegendsOpinion

Mourning Kofi Annan, Remembering Ron Walters

Julianne MalveauxSeptember 6, 2018

Kofi Annan made his transition in August. The seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, he worked up from the lower ranks (starting at age 24) of the international organization, to serve as head of peacekeeping operations, and four years into his term as UN Secretary-General, earning the Nobel Peace Prize.