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The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) special summit on the Zimbabwe elections went ahead on June 15 in Maputo, Mozambique,...
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35 million missed calls. That's the number of calls that 75-year old social justice leader Anna Hazare received from people across India who supported his efforts to fight corruption. Two weeks earlier, he had invited India to join his movement by ... Continue reading →
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's choice of an Islamist governor for Luxor has sparked anger among tourism workers over his links to the militants that killed 58 people in a 1997 attack in the ancient city which destroyed the tourism industry.
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Cape Town, South Africa, has been undergoing somewhat of an electronic music revival over the past five years. The initial boom happened in the early 2000s when, aided by the pioneering African Dope record label, artists such as Felix Laband and The Constructus Corporation (an earlier incarnation of Die Antwoord) suddenly found themselves at the [...]
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The English word 'perspective' derives from the Latin, perspectiva, which means 'to see through', and as such, instantly assumes a position - a viewer and a horizon, and an in-between space that demarcates self and other, subject and object, time and space. This is our modern perspective. Once this perspective is troubled - both visually [...]
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President Michael Sata recently pardoned and set free 615 prisoners countrywide as part of the African Freedom Day commemoration. This now brings to nearly 4,000 the number of prisoners PF has released on the streets! The releases have been usually on Africa Freedom day or independence day.
On its first independence day in power 2011, the Sata government freed people who were allegedly imprisoned "over minor wildlife-related offences". In Mr Sata's words, "as we celebrate 47 years of our independence, I have extended a gesture of goodwill to these people by pardoning a total of 673 prisoners, majority of whom were jailed over these minor wildlife-related cases".
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Editor's Note: This op-ed originally appeared on Al Jazeera English. Documentary filmmakers Matthew LeRiche, PhD, and Viktor Pesenti recently investigated the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn Blue Nile state, and the flow of refugees into South Sudan. Dr LeRiche is an academic, a writer/producer, and a risk management professional.
In the past year, my colleague Viktor Pesenti and I spent time with people being bombarded by their own government in Sudan's conflict-torn Blue Nile state, near the border with South Sudan.
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The population of elephants in Garamba National Park in northeast Congo has dropped from 20,000 to just over 2,000 since 1960. The Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, led by Joseph Kony, hunts African elephants in the park to fund the killings and mass atrocities it commits throughout central Africa.
The LRA has catalyzed the poaching problem in Garamba since expanding its operations outside of the borders of Uganda in 2005. As described in the Enough Project report, "Kony's Ivory: How Elephant Poaching in Congo Supports the LRA", the LRA and other rebel militias continue to hunt the African elephants andtrade the ivory for arms, ammunition, and food. Some of the bounty is also sent north, out of the park, to the Central African Republic and South Sudan border where Kony and his closest ...
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The Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services, or NISS, confiscated over 10 major newspapers in Sudan in May of 2012, banned 13 journalists from operation, and identified several prohibited topics of discussion. News reports have documented recent bans on news outlets Al-Midan, Al-Meghar al-Syasy, and Al-Intibaha for critical coverage on President Omar Al-Bashir's plans to seek reelection in 2015, as well as violence between rebel groups in South Kordofan. The NISS utilized confiscation and intimidation in order to abridge press liberties, forcing news sources into bankruptcy and denying journalists their livelihood. Ironically, just weeks ago, Sudanese authorities issued a presidential decision to ban pre-publication censorship. First Vice President Ali Osman Taha issued these ...
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