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Monitoring Media Narratives Across Africa
Last updated: October 2026
Monitoring Media Narratives Across Africa
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Israel has launched a massive public diplomacy campaign in New York City ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's scheduled address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. To ensure its message cuts through the noise of the global summit, the National Public Diplomacy Directorate …
Israel’s tensions with Western countries because it attacked the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, and actions in the occupied West Bank, have spilled into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit Thursday to New York for the UN General Assembly. Netanyahu’s scheduled meetings include no leaders from Western …
Maps are an essential technology of modern life. They help navigate streets, follow deliveries and track storms. They’re embedded in election coverage, humanitarian emergencies, military briefings, and development reports. They underpin the “location intelligence” that governments and businesses use to understand where people, services, risks …
Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions This faux-tonement “My confession must center on my, on our complicity in what I view as genocide in Gaza.” — Ex-NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, Monday (Yom Kippur) We say: For Jews, Yom Kippur is a day of atonement, …
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in New York Thursday for a whirlwind, less-than-eight-hour visit to the UNGA, highlighting Israel's deepening diplomatic isolation amid ongoing wars on Gaza and Lebanon, and expanding illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. In stark contrast to his week-long trip …
Meet UAE gemologist who travels to mines, through rivers, to find precious stones Fatma Almheiri set out to find a jewellery design she liked. What followed took her across more than seven countries, to some of the world's finest sapphire deposits - PUBLISHED: Thu 24 …
Members of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) along a road in Mekele after the takeover of airports in the region by Tigrayan rebels, on September 23, 2026 in Ethiopia (AFP/-) The forces of the Tigray rebel authorities took control of the airports of this …
President Donald Trump, defending his decision to ban CNN and two other media outlets from the White House, argued Monday that the press has “an obligation” to report on his accomplishments. But Trump immediately cited two supposed accomplishments that do not actually exist. We don’t …
Egypt on Monday tentatively agreed to South Sudan’s plans for the Grand Fula Dam project, but renewed its feud with Ethiopia over another project known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Egypt and Ethiopia are both members of the BRICS organization, which has done …
President Donald Trump made multiple false claims in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, though he largely stuck to a prepared text. Here is a fact check of some of his assertions. Trump and wars Trump, repeating a frequent false claim, …