Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Listen to the Wed. July 4, 2018 special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW report with dispatches on the impact of police killings of African Americans in the United States; scientists have developed a faster testing process to detect the Ebola Virus Disease amid reports that the latest outbreak is under control in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC); Mozambique President Felipe Nyusi has warned against the false promises being made by Islamists in the north of the country who have engaged in terror attacks; and Africa is in need of over US$1 trillion for infrastructural improvements. In the second hour and third hours we review the recently-convened 31st Ordinary African Union Summit in Nouakchott, Mauritania on July 1-2. The episode presents correspondent reports on the major issues taken up at the AU Summit including the efforts to resolve the South Sudan conflict, the need to ratify the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA); the ongoing challenges involving gender equality; a tribute paid to former South African President Nelson Mandela on the centenary of his birth; among other questions.