First ever Billboard US Afrobeats chart: Check out Top 10
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After winning two-thirds of the seats in by-elections held last weekend, Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is dreaming big. His party secured 19 of the 28 contested parliamentary seats and 75 …
After winning two-thirds of the seats in by-elections held last weekend, Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is dreaming big. His party secured 19 of the 28 contested parliamentary seats and 75 seats in 122 municipalities. An unexpected success that is making him hopeful for a swift victory for next year’s general elections.
“Yes, we have won a landslide, but that does not move away from the fact that the elections in this country need fundamental reforms, around the voters roll, the credibility of the voters roll, around the issues of making sure results are managed in a better way, polling stations are not subjected to the violence, intimidation that we have seen“, said Nelson Chamisa, leader of Zimbabwean opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party at a news conference on Monday, March 28.
Founded less than three months ago, Chamisa’s party the Citizens’ Coalition for Change has denounced the repression operated by the authorities at campaign rallies attended by large crowds of supporters. Last February, clashes at on of his rallies resulted in one death and 22 injuries.
The ruling Zanu PF, has been in charge since Zimbabwe gained independance from Great Britain in 1980.
Current president Emmerson Mnangagwa came to power in 2017 after Robert Mugabe who ruled the country for 37 years resigned.
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Israel hosted a summit with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Arab ministers. It is the first time the Jewish State holds a meeting with four members of the Arab …
Israel hosted a summit with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Arab ministers. It is the first time the Jewish State holds a meeting with four members of the Arab League that is : Morocco, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. It comes almost two years after the Arab states normalised diplomatic ties with Israel.
The group mainly discussed about the revival of the Iran nuclear deal and the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the region.
All attendees condemned the terrorist attack in the northern Israeli city of Hadera on Sunday night which resulted in the death of two Israeli police officers. The attack was claimed by the militant Islamic State group. Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza, praised the attack as a “heroic operation”. It is the second deadly attack carried out by Arab assailants in an Israeli city in less than a week. Both attacks came ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Although peace between Palestinians and Israelis was not on the agenda of these talks, Antony Blinken reaffirmed american support for the two-state solution.
Shortly after meeting the US top diplomat, Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was diagnosed with COVID-19.
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America to launch first Afrobeats Billboard US charts
The last decade has seen Afrobeats explode into a worldwide phenomenon, and now US magazine Billboard says it is teaming up with festival company Afro Nation to launch America’s first ever …
The last decade has seen Afrobeats explode into a worldwide phenomenon, and now US magazine Billboard says it is teaming up with festival company Afro Nation to launch America’s first ever Afrobeats chart.
The chart will go live on March 29 and rank the top 50 most popular Afrobeats songs in the country based on streams and downloads.
“.I am humbled to have made a contribution to growing the genre alongside many talented, passionate people” Afro Nation founder, Obi Asika told Billboard.
As with much of the world, Afrobeats has grown tremendously as a genre in America. Several Afrobeats songs have had international success recently including Ckay’s Love Nwantiti, Fireboy DML’s Peru and Wizkid’s Essence.
“We are proud to showcase the top songs and artists with this new weekly ranking,” Billboard executive, Silvio Pietroluongo, said.
Billboard publishes music charts showing the most popular albums and songs in various genres.
Angola on a hunt for European investors
The first-ever EU-Angola Business forum took place this Thursday in Brussels with an objective of convincing European investors to bet on Angola’s reforms to support private sector investment and business links. …
The first-ever EU-Angola Business forum took place this Thursday in Brussels with an objective of convincing European investors to bet on Angola’s reforms to support private sector investment and business links.
Francisco Franca, the CEO of Angola’s Mota -Engil said, “Angola, today, is a country that is open to international investors, something that was not a few years ago, and so today there are many opportunities in Angola , let’s say, to execute projects. And, the government itself has established a series of rules that are in the legislation and that allow international investors to go to Angola and invest in Angola.”
The hybrid event that attracted more than 800 participants, saw the signing of a memorandum with the Dutch consortium Flying Swans in order to develop a cold logistics chain, a vector that can attract foreign direct investment in Angola.
Reacting to the openness and the efforts that the Government in Luanda has done, the Minister of State Manuel Nunes Junior for Economic Coordination said, “There is a very big change here in the functioning of the foreign exchange market, those people who invest in Angola and who at the end of the year want to transfer their dividends out of the country, today they can do it with all the predictability, with all the transparency unlike what happened until 2017.”
Angola was successful in bagging a 50, 000, 000 euro loan from the European Investment Bank and a 7,000,000 euro grant from the European Union to support health resilience were also signed in Brussels. But the partnership between Angola and the European Union is not only about money.
The EU Ambassador to Angola, Jeannette Seppen expressed her views regarding the forthcoming elections saying, “The elections of course will be a very important moment for Angola. The European Union is willing and is ready to deploy an election observation mission, we have shared that with the government of Angola, we haven’t received an invitation as yet to deploy an observation mission, and we will wait, time is running a bit short because deploying such a mission takes a lot of preparation, but we haven’t received the invitation as yet.”
