Drones are low cost and easy to operate. Shutterstock/Halfpoint Kwasi Addo Appeaning, University of Ghana Delta…
Month: February 2019
Books paint contrasting pictures of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
South African liberation struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. EPA-EFE/Jon Hrusha Keith Gottschalk, University of the Western Cape…
On shared struggles: From Sudan to the gilets jaunes to #MeToo
Sudan stands alone as it protests thirty years of oppression. And yet so much of its…
Emperor Haile Selassie statue joins list of Africa’s troubled memorials
A statue of Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie, at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa.…
I am not a criminal, I am an artist By MARIA DAÏF
The story of three Moroccan dancers who despite having valid Visas, were refused entry, locked up,…
Sudanese Secret Police Asked to Identify 'General of Death' in Italy
In June 2016 an Eritrean man was arrested in Sudan and extradited to Italy after…
ICRC HYPOCRISY IN MYANMAR AND THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Reading the sex scandals conducted by Oxfam personnel in Haiti I remembered past reports implicating UN…
Why Ebola vaccine on trial in the DRC is raising hopes
Mali was one of the West African countries affected by the biggest Ebola outbreak ever recorded…
The story of an alliance between two poets — one Cuban, one South African
Keorapetse Kgositsile. Oupa Nkosi/Mail & Guardian Cynthia Gabbay, Freie Universität Berlin and Karin Berkman, Hebrew University…
DRC musicians, patronage networks and the possibility of change
Lexxus Legal is a hip-hop artist and at the forefront of the activist movement in…
Meanwhile, around the World
#572 | Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service Syria calls on our full attention, for a fresh…
Reprisals on Human Rights Defenders: Need for NGO Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service On 23 January 2019, the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in…