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The girl’s voice dropped to a hush as she remembered the bright, sunny afternoon when she stepped out of her hut and saw her best friend buried in the sand, up to her neck.
Her friend had made the mistake of refusing to marry a Shabab commander. Now she was about to get her head bashed in, rock by rock. -
On Education Crisis in Zimbabwe
A report by Amnesty International details the impact of Zimbabwe’s mass forced evictions under the ZANU-PF government’s Operation Murambatsvina (Shona: “Clean out the filth”) on the right to education. The government removed children from areas where they had education and now six years later it had failed to build schools in the new settlements. Young women and girls whose education was disrupted by the forced relocation reported feeling forced by their circumstances to earn money through sex work to support their families. (via BBC News)
In other news, a mass grave containing up to sixty people was found at a Zimbabwe school. Schoolchildren stumbled on human bones sticking out of the ground after their football (soccer) pitch caved in during a game. The remains likely belong to victims of the Gukurahundi (Shona: “The early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains”) massacre in the 1980s. (via The Guardian)
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AJE: Africa drought refugees are desperate for water
Around three thousand refugees are arriving in the Dadaab complex every day, to flee the worsening drought in neighbouring Somalia.
There are already 440,000 people at the site.
Al Jazeera’s Peter Greste reports from Garissa in northeast Kenya.More from Al-Jazeera:
Somalia crisis one of ‘largest in decades’
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We saved the Serengeti!!!!
This is the song I wrote to help save the Serengeti HERE: -
African refugees, and the misconceptions that come with them, have become a major issue in the Israeli town of Eilat, inspiring the “red flag” campaign against the newcomers.
The shift is most obvious, perhaps, in Eilat, the small city in the south where Anei and several thousand African asylum seekers live. Here, refugees find their children barred from municipal schools. And in a move that has alarmed both human rights organisations and the local branch of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the municipality has hung red flags throughout the city as part of a municipal campaign against African migrants - initiated by employees of the state of Israel and financed with public funds.
The flags are part of a campaign called “protect our homes”, hung by residents under the auspicies of local solidarity against the migrants.
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The war against Libya in historical perspective
The leaders of 14 capitalist powers in Europe plus the United States met for a conference in Berlin 126 years ago to decide how all of Africa’s land and vast resources would be divided as colonies and zones of control among themselves. No Africans were invited to the conference.
The 1884 Conference of Berlin, more than any other single event, became emblematic of the dynamic transformation of capitalism into a system of global imperialism.
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100s of Africans including young children fleeing Libya stranded on the Egyptian-Libyan border at Salloum for weeks. Someone help please.
(Source: neighborhoodr-tripoli)
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Amazing acoustic instrumental cover of Toto’s Africa. (via imkevin, thephenthouse)
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Obama lifts restrictions on Abortion Funding
Great how quickly things can change.
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Critics of the funding ban say the anti-abortion restrictions have resulted in huge drops for funding worldwide to organizations that provide family-planning services and basic healthcare. They say this means many women are deprived of contraception and other health services in poor countries, leading to back-alley abortions and deaths.
The Center for Reproductive Rights says, for example, that in Ethiopia and Lesotho, some nongovernmental organizations are no longer able to offer comprehensive and integrated healthcare services to patients suffering from HIV/AIDS.
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Residents of Kibera, one of the poorest quarters in Nairobi gather to watch the inauguration ceremony of US President Barack Obama in Nairobi on January 20, 2009. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images) Boston.com
