Africa has faced a tragic airline crash, cataclysmic cyclones that may be a harbinger of the future, the death of an icon and the rise of a new leader.
A tragic airline crash with far-reaching consequences, cataclysmic cyclones that may be a harbinger of the future, the death of an African icon and a new leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize. These African stories captured the world’s attention in 2019 — and look to influence events on the continent in 2020.
Boeing was inundated with questions about the safety of its plane. After initially claiming that it was safe, the company was forced to ground the plane after many countries refused to let it fly in their airspace. In December, Boeing announced that it would suspend production of the jet.The air crash was a trial for Ethiopian reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who later in the year won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for achieving peace with neighboring Eritrea.
Across Mozambique, more than 2.5 million people remain in urgent need of assistance, according to the U.N. Mozambique also starts 2020 troubled by ongoing attacks on vehicles in the country’s central area and by Islamic extremist attacks in the country’s north.2019 began with extremist violence. In Kenya in January, insurgents launched an assault on a luxury hotel and shopping complex in Nairobi that killed at least 14 people.
“The startling deterioration of the security situation in Burkina Faso has been a major development in 2019,” said Alex Vines, director of the Africa program at Chatham House, the British think tank. ”There’s been a dramatic spike in extremist attacks.” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, reelected in 2019, said in a New Year’s statement that the need to boost his country’s ailing economy and create jobs was his biggest challenge for 2020. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, also reelected, has said that his government has controlled the rebellion by Boko Haram extremists, but violence continues to plague the country’s northeast.
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