El hachazo de Trump a la ayuda humanitaria causa muertes y afecta a la salud global, y forma parte de una tendencia de numerosos países occidentales en los últimos años Llevamos semanas siguiendo con atención el impacto de los recortes a la cooperación internacional que el presidente norteamericano, Donald Trump, ha llevado a cabo con orgullo y muchos aspavientos. Un reciente artículo de la periodista Julia Navarro y la lectura de un informe del Real Instituto Elcano que firma una de sus investigadoras principales, Iliana Olivié, me hicieron reparar, sin embargo, en que los recortes de Trump no son ni…
José Segura
Permítanme hoy un ejercicio de reflexión sobre el objeto y la razón de ser de esta institución nacional ubicada en Canarias y el por qué es importante la diplomacia pública Ya cada vez me ocurre menos veces, pero no es extraordinario que algún canario o canaria que conozco me dice que no sabe exactamente qué es Casa África. Estamos cerca de cumplir los veinte años como institución y aún nos sigue pasando, muy de vez en cuando. Hoy permítanme un ejercicio de reflexión para tratar de contarles desde la perspectiva institucional qué es y qué hace Casa África, para que…
El Área de Desarrollo Económico y Social de Casa África trabaja no solo en diplomacia económica, sino en diplomacia deportiva, migraciones o emergencias. Siguiendo con la línea iniciada en mis últimos artículos, de repaso de la labor que se hace en Casa África y visibilización de su equipo, hoy quisiera hablarles del trabajo que se realiza en el Área de Desarrollo Económico y Social, una sección de la Casa de la que forman parte Yurena Ojeda y Naziha Hage y desde la que se implementan acciones no solo relacionadas con la diplomacia económica pura, sino también con la diplomacia pública…
Francis' sensitivity to Africa and his concern for issues such as climate change and migration leave a legacy that the continent will not only never forget, but also explains the rise of Christianity across the continent. Francis Bergoglio, Pope Francis, the first South American Pope and the first Pope from the so-called Global South, an Argentinian who will leave a deep mark for his extreme sensitivity towards the poor and marginalised, has passed away. It is more than significant that at a time when the world is convulsing step by step towards extreme right-wing positions very marked by ultra-liberalism, the loss of the...
Casa África's Antonio Lozano reading club reached its 100th book last week and its head, Ángeles Jurado, received an award in Asturias for her tireless promotion of African literature in Spain Today I wanted to bring you an atypical article because I have found what I am about to tell you, firstly, and then reproduce, exciting. Perhaps you don't know that at Casa África we have a reading club. It has been called, for some years now, Casa África's Antonio Lozano Reading Club. The name pays homage to its founder, a great writer and a great friend of...
There are still some 600 million Africans without access to electricity, a fundamental condition for development, economic growth and improved quality of life. It is estimated that almost half of all Africans currently lack regular access to electricity. The latest estimates suggest that between 570 and 600 million people suffer from poor or no electricity at all. The figure becomes even more relevant when compared to the rest of the world: of all human beings living in the so-called electricity gap, 80%...
Although these are times when one tends to think that everything is going backwards, the overall picture should keep us hopeful: as I write this article I hear the announcement that the Olympic movement will have, for the first time in its history, a woman president: Kirsty Coventry. The joy from my perspective is doubled by the fact that she is a former African swimmer from Zimbabwe, until now her country's sports minister, and the most decorated African in the history of the Olympic Games. It has taken 131 years since its founding for the Olympic movement to be...