[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- The Africa Bureau at the State Department has a new top official, Nick Checker. Unlike his recent predecessors who were career diplomats, he has been at State for only four months, having served for the previous decade as a military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He spent part of 2025 working in the White House as deputy executive secretary on the National Security Council (NSC) staff.

[Afropop] New York -- We're pleased to announce the launch of the Africa-America Institute's State of Education 2026 Conference - ''Following The Gold Road--Global Medieval Africa in the Time of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.''