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Showing posts with label East Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Africa. Show all posts
Monday, May 11, 2026

In row with Zambia, NGO abruptly cancels world human rights conference, points to Chinese interference

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A gateway near Lusaka's Kenneth Kaunda International Airport marks Zambia independence from Britain in 1964. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Buzz surrounds Bobi Wine: docko, presidential rerun

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Bobi Wine: Presidential material? VOA public domain photo via Wikimedia Commons Podcast Snap Judgment talked to director Moses Bwayo in Mar...
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...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Rule of law seems absent, western powers impassive, as civil war inflicts horrific suffering in Sudan

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I know it's hipster hot right now to be up in arms over Gaza and lukewarm over Ukraine . I'd like for a moment to set aside both tho...
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...