Pankaj Mishra writing in the Guardian:

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With the gutting of foreign coverage by most U.S. newspapers and the need to populate infinite Web space with content, a new creature has emerged: the foreign affairs blogger. Max Fisher, who hosts the Washington Post's WorldViews page, is a leading exemplar of the species. Fisher's newsy nuggets are often low-priority zeitgeist items that may [...]

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The University of KwaZulu-Natal has announced that it will make isiZulu language classes compulsory for all first-year students from next year. This modest step, aimed at promoting multilingualism in South Africa, has been sharply criticised. Some have compared it to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in schools in 1976 (a move [...]

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This is a guest post by Dr. Deirdre LaPin, co-author of Securing Development and Peace in the Niger Delta (Woodrow...

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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.

Enough Project Fellow Hawa Salih is featured in this story "Escape to Obscurity," about life as a Darfuri refugee who has fled to America.

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via Afrofuturist Affair:

Eaten By The Heart is a video installation and documentary project conceived, produced and directed by Zina Saro-Wiwa. Commissioned by The Menil Collection, Houston and supported by the Houston Museum of African American Culture for the Menil's exhibition The Progress of Love, the piece explores intimacy, heartbreak and love performances among Africans and Diasporans. Eaten By The Heart forms part of Zina's video performance and installation practice which focuses on the mapping of emotional landscapes, its resulting performative behaviors and cross-cultural implications. Zina states:

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News in the Congo has been surprisingly M23-deficient in the past few days. A group of Mai-Mai attacked Beni yesterday, killing several Congolese army officers (although their commander Hilaire has links well- to the M23); Kinshasa prepares for the visit of the United Nations Secretary-General and the head of the World Bank next week; and the country awaits a new head of the election commission (Appollinaire Malu Malu is the favorite, but his Catholic church seems opposed).

Is this because Kampala is dead? It would seem so--the negotiations have been on hold for weeks now, and the M23 has withdrawn, it says, until there is an official ceasefire. It suffices to look at the various proposals on the table there at the moment to see how far apart the two sides are.

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Government has rejected calls by Toyota Zambia to limit the age of second hand vehicles entering the country because it may "disadvantage the majority of Zambians who cannot afford to buy brand new ones". Toyota wanted Government to limit the age of second hand vehicles entering the country to four (4) years for cars and pick-ups and five (5) years for trucks in order "to improve safety conditions on roads".

Transport Minster Christopher Yaluma says vehicles are unsafe on roads due to lack of maintenance rather than their age. Also most cars entering the country are in good condition. Limiting the age of motor vehicles will only benefit players in the local industry and not necessarily benefiting the ordinary Zambians because vehicles would be beyond the affordability of most citizens.

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Kenya, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and, by extension, the international community currently face the dilemma of dealing with a...

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Imagine you're a 17 year old middle class Dutch girl. You just cycled home from another boring day at school. Trapped in the conventional humdrum of the day, you are deprived of the stirring type of high school tales that you often watch. Back home, you switch on the TV and stumble upon a rerun [...]

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