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ONE Mum blogger Michelle Pannell traveled to Ethiopia with ONE this October. This piece, originally published on Mummy from the Heart, is part of our ongoing coverage of the trip. The last Friday when I was in Ethiopia I met a man that I will remember for the rest of my life. This was a... Read More »
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Nnimmo Bassey from Nigeria was awarded the 2012 Rafto Prize for Human Rights at the National Stage, Bergen, Norway, on 4 November. - As I reflect on the importance of this award, it dawns on me that the Rafto Prize...
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"I carved tonight's projection on a sapling deep in the Rocky Mountains. He who finds it wins Colorado." Nate Silver 2.0, on Twitter at @fivethirtynate Is the 538 model biased? (h/t Joshua Cohen) Another way to predict elections
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The paper is structured as follows. Following brief contextual information the paper opens with an examination of motivations and aspirations to leave Eritrea. This includes an overview of the current situation in Eritrea and the importance of the Eritrean diaspora in decision making. Part two addresses the changing refugee dynamics in east Sudan and why Shagarab refugee camp has become predominantly a place of transit rather than refuge.
The following section examines the role of smugglers in east Sudan. One group of smugglers mentioned in many testimonies are a group known as the Rashaida. In order to explain their ubiquity in testimonies this section places human smuggling in the context of wider processes of trade, underdevelopment and Sudan-Eritrean relations. Specific ...
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Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani isn't exactly famous for his tact, but he kicked his penchant for overstatement into overdrive this Sunday, twice falsely claiming that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) response to Hurricane Sandy was worse than its botched response to Hurricane Katrina under President George W. Bush. Speaking at a [...]
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Which country has just lowered its voting age to 16? How many members of China's current politburo Standing Committee are women? Which country is slashing the number of provinces? Find out in our weekly quiz.
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"Hope and change," the '08 Obama promised. It sounds like a bitter joke to many now. What change have we seen, they ask. What hope should we have? Bunches of it. Though it may seem that Obama's promise of change was obliterated by a combination of his own timidity or forces beyond his control, that [...]
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Le français est une langue précise. Les mots sont donc importants d'autant que depuis le discours de Dakar de Nicolas Sarkozy, des esprits vifs s'échauffent pour un rien. Surtout quand on parle d'une histoire dans laquelle une frange entière de l'humanité ne serait pas assez... entrée.
Aussi, quand le professeur émérite Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch intitule son ouvrage Petite histoire de l'Afrique subsaharienne, la qualification « petite » va faire l'objet d'une surveillance particulière du lecteur que je suis. On pourra arguer qu'en un peu plus de 200 pages, la présentation de l'histoire des peuples subsahariens - et pour ne pas nous voiler la face, des peuples « noirs » - ne peut faire l'objet ...
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As you may have seen (see previous post), the Rift Valley Institute just launched the Usalama Project, which will publish a dozen reports on armed factions in the eastern Congo over the next year.
So what's this project about?
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Studio 75, a London-based "100% independent, not part of any school, trend, fashion or directive" artist space is hosting 'The Orientophobia Sessions' this weekend. In the program of the Out Of The Deep East, Bulgarian artists Krum and Desi engage into an ink duel with Egyptian artist Naz: Written by...
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"Halleluja." Ghanaian-Swiss OY breaks down hair politics over some church loop. Next: Ghanaian-Canadian singer-songwriter Kae Sun's 'Ship and The Globe', the debut single off his forthcoming LP "Afriyie": Chicago has its very own Shrine. Yasiin Bey + Hypnotic Brass Ensemble = Fela Kuti's 'Water No Get Enemy' (H/T Okayafrica): Shot in Arusha, Tanzania: Joh Makini and [...]
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A blindfolded altar boy will choose the name of Egypt's new Coptic Christian pope on Sunday from among three candidates. Pope Shenuda III (pictured) died in March amid fears of how Christians would fare under the ruling Muslim Brotherhood.
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