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- Attacks on reporters threaten right to information in DRC’s Nord-Kivu province, Reporters Without Borders saysrsf.org Attacks on reporters threaten right to information in DRC’s Nord-Kivu province
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns threats and violence against journalists in Nord-Kivu province, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, just weeks ahead of elections. Armed masked intruders have attacked two reporters at night in their homes in Nord-Kivu in the space of a week. The...
The latest victim was Nerry Ushindi, a journalist with Radio Télévision Ishango (RTI), a community radio station based in Kasindi, a small border town in the northeastern corner of the province. Three armed masked individuals forced their way into his home in Kasindi on the night of 9 November.
Armed with a gun, machetes and a hammer, the intruders demanded money and Ushindi’s journalistic equipment, and threatened to prevent him from continuing to work for RTI.
- UK Rwanda migrant scheme declared unlawful
> we conclude that the Court of Appeal was correct to reverse the decision of the Divisional Court, and was entitled to find that there are substantial grounds for believing that the removal of the claimants to Rwanda would expose them to a real risk of ill-treatment by reason of refoulement. It was accordingly correct to hold that the Secretary of State’s policy is unlawful.
- An African NGO's Message to China's Exim Bank: "Hear Our Voices Before Destroying Our Communities" --- [includes a video, 6 min]feddit.de An African NGO's Message to China's Exim Bank: "Hear Our Voices Before Destroying Our Communities" --- [includes a video, 6 min] - Feddit
French oil company Total and majority state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) are on the cusp of building the world’s longest heated oil pipeline right through the heart of Africa - with devastating environmental and social consequences. “Stretching for nearly 1,445 kilometers, t...
Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5533307
- Power ship company that cut electricity in African cities eyes expansion | Semaforwww.semafor.com Power ship company that cut electricity in African cities eyes expansion | Semafor
A Turkish company whose floating power ships switched off the electricity to two of Africa’s poorest cities in recent months says it is in talks with six more countries.
- Harriet Karimi Muriithi on Life in Kenya (Ep. 194 - BONUS)conversationswithtyler.com Harriet Karimi Muriithi on Life in Kenya (Ep. 194 - BONUS)
An aspiring entrepreneur’s outlook on the country’s future
- How you digitize Nigerian history, one newspaper at a time | Semaforwww.semafor.com How you digitize Nigerian history, one newspaper at a time | Semafor
Non-profit Archivi.ng is trying to digitize every Nigerian newspaper published since the country's independence in 1960.
- Whose interest does the Kenyan seeds law protect?conservationatheart.wordpress.com Whose interest does the Kenyan seeds law protect?
Seed is the source of life. It is critical in food production, nutrition, agricultural development, rural livelihoods and agrobiodiversity. Farmers across the globe have saved and exchanged indigen…
> It is therefore right to say that the Kenyan government and its respective seed policies undervalues farmer managed seed systems. Smallholder farmers in Kenya account for 80% of the farming population yet they are actively discouraged from farming by state agricultural policy that promotes commercial seed provision and modernisation of agriculture. Farmer seed systems provide equal access to seeds to farmers regardless of their economic status. Which begs the question: Why should policy support be geared towards formal seed systems when informal seed systems are currently supporting agricultural production?
- Beyond a cessation of hostilities, Ethiopia needs comprehensive peace - ISS Africaissafrica.org Beyond a cessation of hostilities, Ethiopia needs comprehensive peace - ISS Africa
Almost a year after signing the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, Ethiopia is marred in conflict.
- United States 2024 Elections, Palestine/Israel Agenda, and the International Consequences
I am looking at Gaza and the lives whose loss we are witnessing every hour and thinking how this will directly shape the US election. The traditional US camps are pro-Israel as usual, and I don’t expect any of them to relent on that position else they lose the “numbers at the polls”.
We saw in 2020 how COVID response was constrained by the general election in the US. Even when it was clear why public policy should have saved more lives, the assumptions in Republican strategy limited clear action on the biological threat.
In 2024, we are faced with a similar scenario where clear decisions on saving lives and avoiding genocide in Gaza — and easily avoiding an unpredictable war — is constrained by the upcoming 2024 elections.
Fuel prices will blow up, inflation always lurks behind fuel prices, social dislocation, and perhaps more authoritarian rules emerging around the world as they justify increased (in)security measures to ward off terrorism.
We are staring at a dark phase.
- PODCAST - Peacebuilding Setbacks in the Sahel - What Now After Niger Coup, Growing Military Junta Rule?allafrica.com PODCAST - Peacebuilding Setbacks in the Sahel - What Now After Niger Coup, Growing Military Junta Rule?
allAfrica's Juanita Williams is joined by veteran Niger journalist Gare Amadou, and peacebuilding researchers Professor Ibrahim Bangura and Dr Festus Kofi Aubyn to provide insights in to what the situation in the Sahel is, with a special focus on Niger in light of the August coup and subsequent mili...
- Israel-Gaza war: Why is Africa divided on supporting Palestine?www.aljazeera.com Israel-Gaza war: Why is Africa divided on supporting Palestine?
Israel has made deep inroads into a continent traditionally sympathetic to Palestine. But its gains have limits too.
- Mali’s democratic imam, Ethiopia’s bourse, leaving Nigeria | Semafor | Semaforwww.semafor.com Mali’s democratic imam, Ethiopia’s bourse, leaving Nigeria | Semafor | Semafor
IMF says 2024>2023, Africa’s wind energy rises, recordbreaking African-born artist
- What really happened to Patrice Lumumba? | Semaforwww.semafor.com What really happened to Patrice Lumumba? | Semafor | Semafor
Rwanda’s UK embarrassment, Cape Town as an Airbnb hub, Ghana’s bank protests
- Senegal cracks down on Europe refugee boats: Will others follow?www.aljazeera.com Senegal cracks down on Europe refugee boats: Will others follow?
The West African nation’s navy is stopping refugee boats at record rates. But who does that help — other than Europe?
> “The truth is there might never be a sustainable way to address migration, but African countries need to work better to increase legal pathways within Africa,” Oucho said. “Perhaps West Africans could move to East Africa where I’m from to share fishing expertise and vice versa. When people move they bring challenges but they also bring talents.”
- Africa's boda boda beltsubstack.com Note by Emeka Ajene on Substack
Motorcycle taxis are largely a foreign concept in the West. But across Africa and other emerging markets — whether you call them boda bodas, okadas, zemidjans, bendskins, or something else entirely — they’re a way of life. Here’s a look at the spread of motorcycle taxis across the continent — what...
- On the Finalization of the Constitutional Review Process in Somaliaconstitutionnet.org On the Finalization of the Constitutional Review Process in Somalia
Following the adoption of the Somali Provisional Constitution in 2012, various setbacks have prolonged the comprehensive constitutional review originally envisaged to last four years. Nevertheless, th
- Haitians Denounce U.N. Vote to Deploy U.S.-Backed Kenyan-Led Troopswww.democracynow.org Haitians Denounce U.N. Vote to Deploy U.S.-Backed Kenyan-Led Troops
The United Nations Security Council has approved an international armed force to address spiraling gang violence in Haiti, where street battles have paralyzed the capital Port-au-Prince since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. The U.N. mission, which came at the repeated request o...
- An Ethiopian Month Packed with Holidays: Mawlid, Meskel and Irreecha
> The difference between the established religions indicated above the Irreecha festival is that the former came from outside the country, Orthodox Christianity back in the 4th century and Islam in the 7th, wd while the Waqa belief system is entirely indigenous, created and nurtured by the common people whose lives depend on this very belief system.
- Why the world is ready for African stories | Semaforwww.semafor.com Why the world is ready for African stories | Semafor
Editi Effiong is the founder of digital marketing company Anakle. The Black Book, which he co-wrote, marks his debut as a movie director. The movie has been an early global hit on Netflix.
- Somali Bantu Music in Vermontarchive.org Somali Bantu Music in Vermont : RETN : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This seminar presents the first known study of Somali Bantu music culture in relocation here in the U.S. The research is based on fieldwork with the Somali...
- Côte d’Ivoire must cut ties between terrorists and illicit markets - ISS Africaissafrica.org Côte d’Ivoire must cut ties between terrorists and illicit markets - ISS Africa
The current calm in the north provides a window to dismantle extremists’ sources of finance, supplies and recruits.
- Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso establish Sahel security alliancewww.aljazeera.com Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso establish Sahel security alliance
The Sahel nations sign pact that will allow them to cooperate against threats of armed rebellion or external aggression.
- South Africa's media often portrays foreigners in a bad light. This fuels xenophobiatheconversation.com South Africa's media often portrays foreigners in a bad light. This fuels xenophobia
The South African print often uses language that portrays foreigners in a bad light, and dehumanises them.
- Mali's Independence Day festivities cancelled as rebels claim control of northern townwww.premiumtimesng.com Mali's Independence Day festivities cancelled as rebels claim control of northern town
Following a return of hostilities in the north, Mali's ruling junta cancelled celebrations next week to honour the anniversary of the country's independence
- French ambassador in Niger being held hostage by junta, Macron sayswww.reuters.com French ambassador in Niger being held hostage by junta, Macron says
France's ambassador in Niger is being held hostage at the French embassy by the military junta which has seized power in the West African nation, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday.
- Building the South-South Feminist Archive: An Interview with Ghiwa Sayegh of Kohl Journalafricanarguments.org Building the South-South Feminist Archive: An Interview with Ghiwa Sayegh of Kohl Journal | African Arguments
Building the South-South Feminist Archive: An Interview with Ghiwa Sayegh of Kohl Journal
> This woman, as Win observes, is often reminded that development work is about aiding the resource-poor and that her own experiences of patriarchy and oppression are not relevant to this narrative. In the meantime, if she happens to work in the development field, her ‘legitimacy’ is only realised in her role as mediator, connecting grassroots women and issues to the language and practice of international development.
- Digital ID: Government switches from Huduma to Maisha Number at a cost of Sh1 billionnation.africa Digital ID: Government switches from Huduma to Maisha Number at a cost of Sh1 billion
Processing of the national digital identity cards to begin in the next twenty days.
> "When someone is given this number at birth, it's the same number that will be their school identification number, their university identification number, it will be their ID number when they turn 18, it will be their KRA pin number and their lifetime number... it's a lifetime number from birth to death.
- Breaking the silence on NGOs in Africa – a review
> The Intellectuals go on to diagnose several key symptoms felt by the NGO-ization of Kenyan movements. Telling the story of Bunge La Mwananchi (The Peoples Parliament) in the early 1990s, Kinuthia Ndungu explains how the movement became a shadow of its original self as NGOs capitalized on poor members’ material conditions and turned them into ‘guns for hire’ by mobilizing them to join activities and demonstrations – whatever the cause – in exchange for monetary reimbursements. This is but one way how NGOs create a culture of dependency within a movement, making it challenging for grassroots leaders to organize activities without adequate finances and payments to those supporting a cause. Reliance on NGO resource support – in the form of staff time, printed materials, computers, etc. – can influence movement dependence, which can experience severe strain when donor funds shift to other alliances or causes. Additionally, movements that accept NGO resource and advocacy support often become softer in their critique of NGO positionality, dismissing the historical relationship between imperialism and NGOs.
- The Africa Hour - Episode 6: The Cost of Connecting - Can Cameroon Catch uppodcasts.google.com The Africa Hour - Episode 6: The Cost of Connecting - Can Cameroon Catch up?
Cameroon really has no excuse for poor internet: Some of Africa’s biggest internet service providers operate in the country, including MTN and Orange, and the country is connected to five fiber optic submarine internet cables. Yet, internet broadband speeds in this central African country lag frustr...
- Can Kenya Bring Order to Haiti? Doubts Are Swirling.www.nytimes.com Can Kenya Bring Order to Haiti? Doubts Are Swirling.
The African country has volunteered to send forces to Haiti as its security crisis spirals out of control. But the plan is facing pushback.
Archived url: https://archive.ph/F51u6
> Ms. Charlier voiced doubt that the Kenyan-led force would be large enough to make headway against the gangs, which are thought to control roughly 80 percent of the capital. The plan calls for the deployment 1,000 Kenyan police officers and several hundred officers or soldiers from Caribbean countries.
> “Fighting the gangs will require going into shantytowns, hillsides, terrain that you need to know very well,” said Ms. Charlier. She said that money going to an outside force would be better spent on strengthening Haiti’s own depleted police forces.
- The review of constitutionalized ethnic quotas in Burundi: a turning point?constitutionnet.org The review of constitutionalized ethnic quotas in Burundi: a turning point?
The Burundian Senate has embarked on an assessment of the country’s ethnic quotas as mandated by the 2018 Constitution. These quotas, a pivotal aspect of the power-sharing framework established by the
- Levin, Ben Gvir said to suggest moving Eritrean migrants to tony north Tel Avivwww.timesofisrael.com Levin, Ben Gvir said to suggest moving Eritrean migrants to tony north Tel Aviv
After rioting in city's south, justice and national security ministers tout plan to forcibly relocate asylum seekers to wealthier, and left-leaning, neighborhoods
> Netanyahu argued that migration from African countries constituted “a real threat to Israel’s character and future as a Jewish and democratic state.” > > The Israeli right largely rejects African migrants’ claims of asylum-seeking and routinely refers to all migrants, regardless of motives and circumstances, as “infiltrators.”
- Lagos, Glimpsed from Seven Vantageswww.newyorker.com Lagos, Glimpsed from Seven Vantages
The latest iteration of “New Photography,” at MOMA, situates contemporary life in the Nigerian city as a constant but lively negotiation between the violence of history and the demands of the present.
Archived copy: https://archive.ph/vw0p9
> Selections from Karl Ohiri’s ongoing series “Archive of Becoming” take a similar interest in reconciling past and present. For the series, Ohiri printed digital images from negatives discarded by commercial photo studios in Lagos; the resulting images, blooming with lichen-like discolorations, bear the traces of a bygone era of analog photography and record the lives of everyday citizens, transformed now by the gaze of history.
- How South Africa's oldest Quran was saved by Cape Town Muslimswww.bbc.com How South Africa's oldest Quran was saved by Cape Town Muslims
Written by a political prisoner, it is now kept in a bullet-proof casing in a Cape Town mosque.