PAN AFRICAN VISIONS MARKETING AFRICAN SUCCESS STORIES & MORE MAG 1220 Vol III, DEC. 2020. www.panafricanvisions.com Not All Dark and Gloomy The Year In Africa with Dr Chris Fomunyoh Africa Defies The Odds In COVID-19 Response Nigeria: Buffeted On All Sides, The Buhari Administration Gropes For Space Cameroon: Another year ends with no solution in sight for Anglophone Crisis Kenya: Towards Palpable Dividends from the Handshake Ethiopian Airlines Flying The African Flag Even In Crisis PAN-AFRICAN PRO-AFRICAN www.centurionlg.com Contents PAN AFRICAN VISIONs CONTENTS The Bright Sides of A Dreadful Year __________________ 2 ca-Lawrence Freeman ____________________________ 31 Africa Remains The Land Of Promise For Billions of People-Dr 2020 Presidential elections: The Old Guard stands Firm ____ 36 Christopher Fomunyoh ___________________________ 4 A Tribute to African Men and Women We Lost in 2020 _____ 37 Buffeted On All Sides, The Buhari Administration Gropes For Cameroon: D&L Foretia Foundation will Continue Catalyzing Afri- Space _______________________________________ 8 ca's Economic Transformation ______________________ 41 COVID-19: Despite grim predictions, Africa leads in response, as Taking on the bottlenecks as AfCFTA takes off ___________ 43 the western world dabbles _________________________ 11 Flying The African Flag Even In Crisis: ________________ 46 African Geniuses Shine As Coronavirus Outbreak Cripples The Ethiopian Airlines And Its Fight Against Coronavirus ______ 46 Globe _______________________________________ 13 Rwanda: Israel NSO company boosts Rwanda Intelligence spy net- Africans Who Made Global Headlines in 2020 ___________ 16 work capacity __________________________________ 49 Kenya: More Dividends From Uhuru – Raila Handshake ____ 20 Kenyans stealing babies from each other _______________ 50 2020 A Year Malawi's Political And Legal Systems Faced A Huge December: Of Bush Fallers, Broken Relationships, Fake Marriages Test ________________________________________ 22 & Other Scams _________________________________ 52 Another year ends with no solution in sight for Cameroon's Anglo- Africa's top 20 most influential plant breeders of 2020 an- phone Crisis ___________________________________ 23 nounced ______________________________________ 54 Zimbabwe after Mugabe: New Man in Charge but Challenges Still Q & A with Kingsley Pungong of Rainbow Football _________ 54 the Same _____________________________________ 26 CAF: African football's 'new dawn' turns to dusk in Ahmad's Is Benin Turning Rogue Under Talon? _________________ 30 hands _______________________________________ 57 Most US Administrations Have Not Had Good Policies On Afri- Managing Editor Adama Makasuba, Graphic Designer Pan African Visions Ajong Mbapndah L Bah Uzman Unis, Atemnkeng Jerry M, Mohammed M Mupenda, (Young Jerry) 7614 Green Willow Court, Hyattsville, MD Contributors Pierre Afadhali EC designs, Abudhabi - UAE 20785 Wallace Mawire Teslim Olawore +971 52 863 7744 Deng Machol Nevson Mpofu [email protected] Tel: 2404292177, Papisdaff Abdullah Boris Esono Nwenfor email: [email protected], Ajayi Olyinka Amos Fofung Prince Kuripati [email protected] Jean d’Amour Mugabo Hategeka Moses Jessica Ahedor _______ Asong Zelifac Samuel Ouma Advertising Primus Tazanu Email: Jorge Joaquim marketing@ Ishmael Sallieu panafricanvisions.com Koroma, PAV - APR. 2019 - MAG 0419 Vol 3 1 PAN AFRICAN VISIONs Inside Africa The Bright Sides of A Dreadful Year By Ajong Mbapndah L ike most parts of the world, salutary gesture of things changing on term, its President Dr Akinwumi 2019 was a year of reckoning the continent. Adesina has spared no efforts in Lfor Africa on many counts. A Moving forward, now could be the providing a robust response from the year where lofty plans were scurried time for Africa to focus on alternative Bank to help African countries. by the COVID 19 pandemic. Precious or traditional medicine. Beyond At the African Union-AU, with lives were lost, stretched economies COVID, encouraging research on elections coming up, hopefully the became over stretched, businesses local remedies that could help other new leadership will be one that wrecked, tourism stymied, and even ailments could be useful. For all its reflects the aspirations of Africans electoral calendars in some countries importance, health care has never and not those of leaders who have were impacted. While many may see received the desired attention in most visions at odds with those of the 2020 as a year to completely write African countries. For even common people. More often than not, the AU off or forget, a lucid appraisal will ailments, there are many African has been absent in moments when it point to a number of positives for the leaders who will rush to Europe, the is most needed. It is shocking to see continent to build on. US, or Asia for treatment. COVID 19 the AU remain so indifferent to the Ajong Mbapndah L, Managing Editor According to statistics from Africa highlighted the need to rethink and crisis in the English-speaking regions December issue of PAV revisit key Centres for Disease Control and overhaul health care infrastructure of Cameroon. It speaks volumes when issues that defined 2020. Taking Prevention (Africa CDC), Africa in the continent. Thanks to COVID the AU goes mute in the face of leaders a look on the year in retrospect is currently has 2,361,271 confirmed and travel restrictions, the taxpayer doing away with term limits against Dr Christopher Fomunyoh, Senior cases of COVID 19 cases, with Deaths funded incessant travels of African the wishes of their people. When Associate for Africa at the National 55,989 deaths, and 2,004,985 leaders abroad for health reasons, an Institution is quick to castigate a Democratic Institute for International recoveries. Knowing the kind of vacations and other mundane reasons military coup popularly backed by Affairs, NDI . A leading voice in Africa acute health care challenges and the were kept under check. Just the Malians, but indifferent to phony for decades, Dr Fomunyoh sheds light sad state of infrastructure in most savings from such curtailed activities constitutional changes in Guinea on major socio-political and economic countries, it is a miracle that Africa could be enough seed money to start and Cote’Ivoire to do away with term events that defined the year in Africa. has those numbers. At the forefront of a thorough overhaul of health care limits to enable their leaders remain As a global power, elections in the the continental wide response was the systems and infrastructure to better in power, there is a serious problem. USA always generate great excitement Cameroonian born Director of Africa serve people instead for waiting on the In addition to the elections at the and interests, and just as opinions CDC Dr John Nkengasong. From next crisis to start scrambling again. AU, many will actually be looking at were sharply divided in the USA on lockdowns, to travel restrictions, On the political front, while many progress on the African Continental the two candidates, so was the case testing measures, and others, many will think the year was defined by Free Trade Agreement-AfCTA. in Africa. From men of God indulged African countries worked hard to leaders like Alpha Conde of Guinea Touted as having great protentional to in all forms of ridiculous prophecies mitigate the ravages of the pandemic. and Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire profoundly transform the continent, on the eventual winner, and offering In a sign of changing times, Africa doing away with constitutional COVID 19 slowed down plans for the answers as to why their prophecies was proactive in seeking its own provisions and imposing themselves launch of its effective implementation, could not come through, to fanatics solutions instead of waiting on the rest on third terms, the most exciting the hope is that things will pick up on who still believe the outcome as it of the world to bring solutions. We development may have come from that front in 2021. stands now will still be overturned, saw this in the efforts of Madagascar Malawi. Presidential elections The year 2020 ends on a dramatic many Africans have been passionate with COVID Organics which was deemed to have been rigged by note for African football with the fall about US politics this year, but are widely touted by President Andry incumbent President Mutharika were of Ahmad Ahmad the President of Africans actually conversant with Rajoelina as a remedy. While many annulled by the courts with an order the African Football Confederation, the US-African policy? Lawrence questioned the scientific validity of a rerun which effectively took place, indicted on charges of corruption. Freeman a political and economic of the Covid Organics, the effort and he was beaten by the opposition While this was not the end many analyst with thirty years of experience deserves credit especially when challenger. This development would have wished for him, it comes working on the continent takes a hard President Rajoelina went the extra represented a huge step forward for as no surprise as the man seemed lost look at the state of US-African ties in mile of making it available to so many democracy and hopefully the example and clueless from the get-go. How he an interview. African countries. Equally salutary can be emulated in other African replaced the venerable Issa Hayatou From the continental response to were the efforts of Archbishop Samuel countries. a man who toiled hard for decades to COVID 19, to the travails of Buhari Kleda of Douala, Cameroon who Building on these positives, there earn global respect for African football in Nigeria, the Anglophone crisis came up with his own herbal therapy should be a reason to hope that defied logic. In less than one term in Cameroon with no end in sight, which was credited by many for their 2021 will be a better year for Africa. of office, the ineptitude of Ahmad Kenya’s quest for a new dawn for its recovery. We saw Ethiopian Airlines In institutions like the African reduced CAF to a laughingstock acrimonious politics, to the heroes transporting supplies donated by the Development Bank-AfDB, the in global football.