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BACKGROUND to attacks against Black Communities in Columbia April 25, 2016 - Cauca, Colombia Over 2,000 elders, children, women and men from 41 Afro-Colombian community councils marched peacefully along four kilometers of the main Pan-American Highway in Northern Cauca to…
The human security implications of anti-gay law on sexual minority in Nigeria
The human security implications of anti-gay law on sexual minority in Nigeria by Toyin Ajao Introduction On 7th?January 2014, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed an anti-gay bill into law, with punishments including 14 years imprisonment for anyone that enters into…
US Expansionism by stealth: Militarism from Africa to the Pacific Islands
From Guernica – The Pivot to Africa.? The US [AFRICOM] claims it has a limited military presence in Africa with just one military base in Djibouti however when each small ‘footprints’ is counted, we see the whole is alarmingly expansive….
After the bees and the frogs we are not far behind
In an August 2013 report, Haiti Grassroots Watch wrote that Haiti’s mineral wealth could be worth as much as $US 20 billion and for this already land has already been given to US and Canadian businesses fronted by Haitian firms.??…
My grandmother was a fisherwoman………
she used to fish on the Sombrero River and the adjoining creeks but then came the? oil, and? greed, and pollution and war, now most of the fish are dead, fat men and women fight over the overspill of their…
Haiti: Caracol, Cholera and Dignity
Evel Fanfan is a Haitian human rights lawyer and activist.? He is the co-founder of AUMOHD [Action des Unit??s Motiv??es pour une Haiti de Droits) or Action for Human Rights in Haiti founded in 2002. ? Despite constant intimidation of…
BAYAKOU: – Why I’m talking shit & cholera on World Water Day*
We know that in certain situations shit can kill and the poorer you are the more likely you could die of a shit related illness CHOLERA is a prime example, so shit is a poverty issue and a class issue. We know there are issues of privacy, access to a€?toiletsa€? especially at night and sexual violence in unlit densely populated urban areas, so shit is also a gender issue. We know that some people risk physical violence or are refused entry into toilets such as a proposed ban in Arizona where transgender people would not have the rights to choose the toilet of their choice so shit is also a transgender issue. With shit playing such a prominent part in our lives, why is what happens to it so mysterious?
Haiti – Cholera still an emergency issue
From M??decins Sans Fronti?¨res (MSF) a report on the deplorable condition of cholera related healthcare in four departments in Haiti. Part of the problem is that increasingly over the past 18 months cholera has been downgraded to a ‘development’ issue rather than an emergency one. However as the report states there has been an increase in mortality rates of 4% in 2012. Another factor which has the potential to exacerbate the cholera situation is the reduction of DINEPA staff responsible for all aspects of monitoring water and sanitation in the ‘official’ camps.
Redux: Odi & Filling Nigeria’s Memory Hole
After 14 years, Nigerian courts have ordered the government to pay compensation to Odi Town in the sum of nearly $240 million within 21 days. He described the attack on Odi as
“brazen violation of the fundamental human rights of the victims to movement, life and to own property and live peacefully in their ancestral home.”
In Honor of Childhood-less Children/Adults.
My most visceral thoughts are right now with all the children who have been robbed of their childhoods by war and conflict. Oftentimes war and conflict can be in the home, in the family. Sometimes it is literally in war trenches. It is the time to speak out for the protection of the African child’s childhood where the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other documents such as the African Charter on the Rights and Responsibilities, fall short. Heaven, bless the child to speak and be heard. Heaven, protect the child.
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Haiti: From AIDS to Aid, an [Un]Humanitarian Story
The third anniversary on January 12, 2013 of the earthquake in Haiti was marked yet again by a flood of new reports, opinions, facts and figures: a repetition of the past two years in terms of the lack of progress…
Banks, multinationals, billionaires buying up water
land grabs taking place across the global south including across Africa – see here and here and the push towards water privatization. There are two additional ‘disturbing trends’ around the supply and access to water. The first is the multinationals and banks buying up water, lakes, water rights, acquirers and water technology.
#16Days – African Women in the Age of War
From Open Democracy, Amina Mama on where African women should stand in the age of war. ?[This article was first published in September 2011.] The anniversary of 9/11 has filled the US-dominated media with action replays and detailed excavations…
#16Days “I Am A Woman, Hear Me Roar”
From the People’s Parliament and Occupy Guyana [GT] All photos by Shirlina Naager?? Creative Commons
a€?We Remember Differentlya€? – Oil is Everything in Nigeria
Chimanada Ngozi Adiche responds to some of the criticism of Chinua Achebe’s memoir “There Was a Country”. I finished reading ‘There Was a Country’ a few days ago and was contemplating my own response to some of the critical reviews of the book. Fortunately for me Adichie has said nearly everything I wa
#16Days: – Nigeria’s Memory Hole*
In the early hours of the morning of the 20th November, 1999, 27 trucks carrying over 2000 soldiers plus 4 armored personnel carriers mounted with machine guns drove into Odi Town in Bayelsa State. Between 2pm that afternoon and 6pm the following day, the town was bombarded with artillery fire. By the end of the two days, practically every building in the town was flattened, set on fire and/or looted. In all 2,483 persons – mainly women, children and the elderly were
Arms to Art: Online exhibition of weapons art
Arms into Art?is an ongoing exhibition of sculptures made from old weapons by Mozambique artists.? ? After 17 years of civil war Mozambique was awash with weapons? so a scheme called?“Transformacao de Armas en Enxadas ” (Transforming Arms…
Nigeria’s Generation of the Bewildered! – A review of “There was a Country”
From London Review of Books, a short excerpt from “Things Left Unsaid” by by Chimamanda Adichie. In Nigeria under colonial rule, he could travel from Lagos to the south-east at night without worrying about armed robbers. This, he argues, is…
Geography of Useful Africa
From Le Monde Diplomatique – A map of useful Africa [See also Patrick Bond “Washington in Africa, 2012: Who will Obama ‘whack’ next?”]
kinh nghiệm chơi casino onlineGuyana: Backstory to Linden protests,
Over the weekend I spoke with Guyanese activist Mark Jacobs?* in order to contextualise the uprisings and occupy movement taking place in Guyana this past five weeks. SE: ?We are well into the 5th week of the Linden uprising….
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