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The sound of music quietens the sound of guns

Join Bands, Not Gangs offers music lessons to vulnerable teens in dangerous Western Cape neighbourhoods, encouraging those at risk to choose an instrument rather than a gun. By: Jan…

Kimpavitapress · January 18, 2022
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Peace at Home is Paramount By Ater Garang Ariat

First and foremost, South Sudanese Peace mediators should strive wholeheartedly to restore peace and stability in South Sudan. ” South Sudanese leaders, cannot bring peace in the region,…

Kimpavitapress · November 16, 2021
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Arundhati Roy on America’s Fiery, Brutal Impotence

The US leaves Afghanistan humiliated, but now faces bigger worries, from social polarisation to environmental collapse, says the novelist and essayist. For reasons of narrative symmetry if nothing…

Kimpavitapress · September 15, 2021
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Here Is Why We Are Boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit

Social movements and scientists are staying out of the UN summit because it represents big agribusiness interests. 25 Jul 2021 – In September this year, the United Nations will…

Kimpavitapress · August 3, 2021
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SIERRA LEONE’S ABOLISHING OF DEATH PENALTY A MAJOR VICTORY

Photo: Amnesty International Reacting to the news that Parliament voted on 23 July to abolish the death penalty in Sierra Leone, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa Director Samira…

Kimpavitapress · August 3, 2021
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Haiti Revolution, sparks for freedom

by Ustadi Kadiri, Haiti Action Committee In 1789, French Haiti – St. Domingue at the time – was receiving 40,000 enslaved Afrikans a year, the result of working…

Kimpavitapress · June 7, 2021
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Two S.Sudanese journalists scoop international awards

Author: Yar Ajak/Woja Emmanuel Journalists Waakhe Simon Wudu (left) and David Mono Danga (right). Two South Sudanese journalists have scooped separate international awards this week. David Mono Danga…

Kimpavitapress · April 26, 2021
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Laughter is an everyday form of resistance – Spire

June 2017. The death of Carol Atuhairwe, the smiling lady whose story of battling throat cancer moved the country. The public fundraised for her treatment in India, where…

Kimpavitapress · March 24, 2021
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To Farm or Not to Farm in Developing Countries

The week has been an interesting one full of global challenges, with escalating violence propagated by the military coup in Myanmar, resulting death of a young protester from…

Kimpavitapress · March 1, 2021
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Haitians intensify struggle against president Jovenel Moïse

Haitian citizens, social movements, trade unions and opposition political parties are demanding the resignation of president Jovenel Moïse, who seeks to extend his term of office until February…

Kimpavitapress · February 5, 2021
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