Pan-African Journal: Special Worldwide Radio Broadcast

Pan-African Journal

Listen to the Sun. Jan. 29, 2023 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 developing situation in Memphis where five police officers have been charged in the murder of an African American motorists; Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has told the Sudanese military leadership that the country should resolve its internal problems independent of western influence; Freetown, Sierra Leone Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyeer has faced obstacles in reform efforts related to assistance to the impoverished while improving the environment; and there have been clashes reported in the eastern DR Congo despite a recent peace agreement involving regional states. In the second hour we listen to a recently-held joint media briefing between South African Foreign Minister Dr. Naledi Pandor and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the current domestic and international situation involving the special military operation in Ukraine, the global food crisis and the joint naval exercises between the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Africa, among other issues. Later we listen to a briefing from the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the public health status of various states.