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Showing posts with label East Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Africa. Show all posts
Monday, August 19, 2024

Law student leads protests in Kenya

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Socioeconomic unrest and youth protests are roiling Kenya, and President William Ruto seems unable to get a grip on the discontent. Freelanc...
Friday, February 23, 2024

'Gripping' Ugandan documentary makes Oscar cut

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Uganda has its first ever Oscar-nominated film, a documentary about political persecution and daring resistance to the Museveni regime. Bobi...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Western myopia marginalizes war in Sudan, Ecuador

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My prayers, especially over the recent holidays, have admittedly felt cliché, if not comical , being dominated by desire for "world pea...
Monday, September 18, 2023

War rages in Sudan; lives lost top 14,000 in North Africa

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The sad news just keeps coming from the African continent: this morning, heartbreaking images of Khartoum's Greater Nile Petroleum (GNP)...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Fighting shatters peace, rips at progress in Sudan

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"Our tea lady" and me in Khartoum, November 2020. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 I'm saddened by the outbreak of conflict in ...
Thursday, July 7, 2022

'Sudanese Bubba' will show you Sudan

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You might not even remember it, but for a short time in the fall of 2020, we thought the pandemic was over. We were just too cute. Wrong as ...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Kenyan presidential election has Nairobi on edge

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UPDATE, Aug. 19: William Ruto won the Kenya presidential election.  Read more at NPR, Aug. 15. Kenya will vote for a new president next mont...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

Museveni still holds reins in Uganda after 35 years, rebuffs allegations of human rights abuses

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At age 77, Yoweri Museveni maintains his grip on power in Uganda and yesterday rebuffed criticism by Human Rights Watch. In 2016, I presente...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Rwanda preens in Commonwealth spotlight, while genocide trauma, Congo conflict smolder just offstage

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June 22, KIGALI —The usually biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, "CHOGM 2022," postponed from 2020, is under way in...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Tort liability brakes U.S. policy shift on Sudan, marks crossroads of past, future where Africa meets Arabia

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Street corner in the Arabian Market district of Khartoum (RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) With economic sanctions exacting an intensified ...