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The Swaziland king and last absolute monarch in sub-Saharan Africa, Mswati III, has had a private underground bunker built for himself and his family, a prodemocracy group says.
It is on a specially-built private road connecting two of the king's palaces at Lozitha and Ngabezweni, the Swaziland Solidarity Network (SSN) says.
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A group of Winnipeggers is trying to prevent a U.S. woman who made incendiary remarks such as "evil" Jews from entering Canada again.
"I don't know how the Canadian border agency would let this woman come again," said Eritrean refugee Daniel Awshek. He attended an event in Winnipeg in 2010 where he said expatriate Eritrean Sophia Tesfamariam made the remarks and shamed people who had fled Eritrea, urging them to send the regime money.
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The eradication of extreme poverty now seems more achievable than ever, but we need a revolution in transparency
Eight years on, the Gleneagles G8 seems like something from a more innocent age. A time before Twitter, when even Facebook was little more than a couple of dorms at Harvard. Yet at the time it didn't seem that way. We were well past 9/11, after all. Scepticism about politicians' motives abounded. The global anti-poverty campaign had matured too - professionalised, according to some. If Jubilee 2000 in 1998 was the critically-acclaimed first album, 2005's Make Poverty History was the greatest hits.
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Two films that were recently picked up by The Weinstein Co and sure to be two of the most discussed films this year on S & A have had their theatrical release dates announced. Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale, which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for an U.S. dramatic film at the Sundance Film Festival in January, will be released on October 18. There is already talk of a possible screening of the film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but a showing at the Toronto Film Festival is practically a sure thing with an Oscar nominations push by the company towards the end of the year. Meanwhile Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba in the lead role and Naomie...
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By Morriah Kaplan Following the hottest year on record -- one that recorded over 3,000 monthly records for heat, rain, and snow -- the public is starting to agree that climate change might, in fact, be real. Though we all have a stake in an issue that will continue to cause extreme weather events, escalate [...]
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News reports, and videos posted on YouTube, reveal that while falling ground is uncommon, it does happen in the United States and around the world.
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Despite nearly two years of ongoing conflict in Syria, grain is being ground into flour, tested for moisture and protein content, and baked into sample loaves of bread. Flour that meets approval is bagged and loaded onto trucks bound for a distribution warehouse in Aleppo Governorate.
At the warehouse, each bag is accounted for as it is offloaded by workers. A community member, who helps oversee the warehouse, looks on, notepad in hand. He talks about how the flour can help ease the financial burden of the displaced Syrians who crowd almost all available living space in the neighborhood.
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In March 2012, US charity Invisible Children launched a film, Kony2012, in a bid to highlight the barbarity of a Ugandan warlord. It became a viral hit online, but the media frenzy proved too much for campaign organiser Jason Russell, who had a very public meltdown. In his first press interview since, he explains why his campaign must continue
Exactly a year ago, Jason Russell was a nobody. Not a nobody, precisely, but just ordinary. Normal. He was a healthy father of two, living in San Diego, and was happy and fulfilled in his work as a director for Invisible Children, a non-profit organisation he'd helped found.
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Here's an interesting documentary film on a little known or forgotten aspect of music and culture currently in development which chronicles the rise of the Rubble KingsDirected by filmmaker Shan Nicholson he says that his film will document the "gang culture in NYC in the 70s and its influence on the birth of hip hop. This true story shines a spotlight on an extraordinary group of young people who took it upon themselves to start a revolution. They overcame the violence on their streets and influenced the birth of the musical and cultural movement that has taken the world over!"And the realize his film to completion Nicholson has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 to...
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I've been meaning to write a blog post about yet another tournament that ended without the Black Stars of Ghana winning the whole shebang. And then the Ayews 'retired' from the Black Stars. Bang! Opinion is divided on whether Ghana should get the services of Dede and Jordan Ayew for our national football team. Opinion is also divided on whether they could have helped the Black Stars do better at the African Cup of Nations that just happened in South Africa. I think they would have helped but I had few reasons to believe we couldn't end our trophy wait earlier this month. If you're counting, the Black Stars have not won a major tournament in more than 30 years. In fact, the Black Stars have not lifted a trophy since I was born. Yeah, go ahead and put the blame on me.
I have been an avid ...
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I've been meaning to write a blog post about yet another tournament that ended without the Black Stars of Ghana winning the whole shebang. And then the Ayews 'retired' from the Black Stars. Bang! Opinion is divided on whether Ghana should get the services of Dede and Jordan Ayew for our national football team. Opinion is also divided on whether they could have helped the Black Stars do better at the African Cup of Nations that just happened in South Africa. I think they would have helped but I had few reasons to believe we couldn't end our trophy wait earlier this month. If you're counting, the Black Stars have not won a major tournament in more than 30 years. In fact, the Black Stars have not lifted a trophy since I was born. Yeah, go ahead and put the blame on me.
I have been an avid ...
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AFP
Egyptians need to come together to give businesses confidence and pass reforms to qualify for an IMF loan, and get the ailing economy "back on its feet," US Secretary of State John Kerry said during a visit to Cairo on Saturday.
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Pretty much all of this week's artist are regular guests on the blog. First up: Pitcho. Remember him. Second, lifted from his 'Jama ko' record, here's a Mali-shot video for Bassekou Kouyate: There's Anbuley's "pushing African music" even further into the future: Nuru Kane (born Papa Nouroudine Kane, in Dakar) has got a new record out: [...]
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This is a guest blog by Elisabeth Caesens, DRC Mining Governance Project Coordinator for the Carter Center. The views expressed here are her own and do not represent those of the Carter Center.
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AFP
Leaders from Egypt's opposition group the National Salvation Front have rejected invitations to meet US Secretary of State John Kerry during his upcoming Cairo visit, citing US pressure over their decision to boycott April's parliamentary elections.
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We've blogged here about what's been wrong about the coverage of the murder of the relatively unknown model Reeva Steenkamp by her boyfriend, Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius. A ratings bonanza, coverage has ranged from frivolous to the ridiculous. The "international community" "rediscovering" that South Africa is dangerous, violent, even paranoid; or the media's eagerness to [...]
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Simon Allison has a great piece up on Good Governance Africa about reporting about Africa. He speaks as a journalist in Africa and identifies some of the reasons why Africa isn't telling its own story. Also some refreshingly practical options to fix the problem, like an Africa desk in national media outlets that can, even if there isn't money to have someone on the ground, edit, localise and
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