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Swaziland's best-known pro-democracy journalist Bheki Makhubu faces two charges of contempt of court for comments he allegedly made to a magistrate in a private phone call.
Makhubu's monthly magazine, the Nation, is the only source of journalism within Swaziland that consistently advocates for freedom in the kingdom and against the regime dominated by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch.
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This is the fifth in a series of entries looking at what we can expect in 2013. Each weekday, a guest analyst will look at the key challenges facing a selected country - and what next year might hold in store. By Jonathan Kay, Special to CNN Editor's note: Jonathan Kay is the Managing Editor for Comment [...]
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Activist filmmakers in Cairo have released a series of Web videos urging their fellow citizens to reject a new constitution hastily approved last month by Islamist allies of President Mohamed Morsi.
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While citizens and advocates of gun control are responding to Friday's horrific school shooting in Connecticut by calling on Congress to enact sensible gun regulations, some gun advocacy groups are blaming supporters of the tighter restrictions for the tragedy. Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, issued a statement this evening attributing the [...]
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I tweeted earlier today about my horror regarding the shootings in Newtown, CT, and my connections to the community. I grew up nearby and have friends who attended the school where the shooting took place. An editor at CNN's opinion section read earlier commentary I'd posted here about the difficulty in opening a debate about [...]
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Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), hours before the tragedy in Connecticut, told the Associated Press that "the time is right" for the legislature to consider more gun control in Colorado. The comments came several months after the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, left 12 dead and at least 58 injured. Hickenlooper said, "I wanted to [...]
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By William Pomeranz, Special to CNN Editor's note: William Pomeranz is the acting director of the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington D.C. The views expressed are his own. U.S. President Barack Obama famously told then-President Dmitry Medvedev in March that he would have more "flexibility" to deal with Russia once he got [...]
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It's been a terrible Friday in the US, given the horrific elemntary school killings in Connecticut. For your weekend, I'll try to restore a bit of holiday spirit with these videos of Fairuz singing "Jingle Bells" and "Silent Night" in Arabic.
I'm not sure when these clips were made, but given that Fairuz is now 77, I imagine it's been a while.
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America's seems to be in for another debate over gun regulation after the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School left 27 (mostly children) dead. So it's worth reviewing five made against regulating gun ownership in the United States: MYTH #1: More guns don't lead to more murders. A survey by researchers at the Harvard University [...]
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The inability of Americans to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy proceedings creates a system of indebtedness like the one that existed during the era of Charles Dickens, when people who couldn't afford to pay their debts were routinely tossed into prisons, a top Democratic senator declared this week. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) has [...]
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I tweeted earlier today about my horror regarding the shootings in Newtown, CT, and my connections to the community. I grew up nearby and have friends who attended the school where the shooting took place. An editor at CNN's opinion section read earlier commentary I'd posted here about the difficulty in opening a debate about [...]
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Here at Enough, we often swap emails with interesting articles and feature stories that we come across in our favorite publications and on our favorite websites. We wanted to share some of these stories with you as part of our effort to keep you up to date on what you need to know in the world of anti-genocide and crimes against humanity work.
The Independent ran an interesting update on Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler's vast holdings in Congolese mining, following on a profile in Bloomberg Markets magazine (which we highlighted in 5 Stories last Friday). The Independent's Jim Armitage reports:
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Kuduro pioneer Sebem (fresh out of prison; he was in for repeated traffic violations, from what I understand) has a new video out (above); the clip's rural setting is surprising, given kuduro's over-all urban flow. Next, a Senegalese collaboration between Djibril Diop and Aida Samb: Kenyan Jeraw draws inspiration and images from local blockbuster film [...]
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Kamene Okonjo was freed early on Friday December 14. Eight-two years of age, she is the mother of Nigerian Finance...
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Guest Post by Asanda Kaka In 1986, the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng decided to document "train churches" -- the culture of mobile worship by working class black South Africans on the country's commuter trains that continues till today. Mofokeng was traveling daily between his home in Soweto and his work as a dark room [...]
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