Africa

Despairing 14-year old Boy Commits Suicide in Darfur Camp: Suffering from which international eyes remain averted

Despairing 14-year old Boy Commits Suicide in Darfur Camp: Suffering from which international eyes remain averted Eric Reeves  |  July 28, 2016  |  http://wp.me/s45rOG-7384 The dispatch from Radio Dabanga was terse, compact—and to my moral sensibility outrageous: A 14-year-old has committed suicide in a camp for displaced people in Zalingei, Central Darfur. The coordinator of Hamidiya camp, El Shafi Abdallah, reported the suicide on Wednesday

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Boko Haram’s victims — now rescued but on the verge of starvation

Boko Haram’s victims — now rescued but on the verge of starvation Kevin Sieff, The Washington Post  22 June 2016 Image: This March 7 photo shows Hamsatu, 25, and Fatima, 3, at the Dalori Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Both had once been captives of Boko Haram. They did not know the fates of family members they had been separated from. (Jane Hahn for the Washington Post) NAIROBI -- Thousands of Boko Haram victims are

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Congolese Politician, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Sentenced to 18 Years for War Crimes

Congolese Politician, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Sentenced to 18 Years for War Crimes Marlise Simons, The New York Times  21 June 2016  Image: Jean-Pierre Bemba takes his seat in court on Monday. The former Congolese vice-president was arrested in Belgium in 2008. Photograph: Jerry Lampen/AP PARIS — A former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 years in prison for crimes against humanity

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Gambia: UN adviser condemns President’s reported threats against ethnic group

Gambia: UN adviser condemns President’s reported threats against ethnic group Image: Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng briefs the press. UN Photo/Amanda Voisard 10 June 2016 – The United Nations Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide has condemned the inflammatory speech by the President of the Gambia, Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia at a political rally this past week, in which he reportedly

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Politicizing Humanitarian Relief: The International Community Continues to Accept Khartoum’s Humanitarian Blockade in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile

Politicizing Humanitarian Relief: The International Community Continues to Accept Khartoum’s Humanitarian Blockade in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile Eric Reeves  |  June 20, 2016  |  http://wp.me/p45rOG-1Ue Unseemly haste and a disgraceful refusal to accept the moral consequences of their action have prompted European countries to accelerate rapprochement with the Khartoum regime in order to step the flow of African refugees to Europe.

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ICC sentences former Congo VP Bemba to 18 years in prison

ICC sentences former Congo VP Bemba to 18 years in prison Associated Press, The Washington Post  21 June 2016  Image: Jean-Pierre Bemba enters the court room of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 21, 2016. The ICC delivered its sentence against former Congolese vice president Bemba who was found guilty, on 21 March 2016, of two counts of crimes against humanity (murder and rape) and three counts of war crimes

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Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds

Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds Human Rights Watch  16 June 2016  Image: Demonstrations were triggered by an Ethiopian government plan to expand the boundaries of Addis Ababa on to farmland in the neighbouring Oromia region (AFP Photo/Zacharias Abubeker) Free Wrongfully Held Detainees, Independent Inquiry Needed  (Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and others, and arrested tens of thousands

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Is Rwanda’s authoritarian state sustainable?

Is Rwanda’s authoritarian state sustainable? Laura Seay, The Washington Post June 3 2016 Image: From left: Tony Blair, former British prime minister, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Howard G. Buffett, chairman and chief executive of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, at the World Economic Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 12, 2016. (Cyril Ndegeya/AFP via Getty Images) Rwanda is the great success story of a post-conflict state in Africa. The country’s

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The International Embrace of Khartoum: Causes and Consequences for Greater Sudan

The International Embrace of Khartoum: Causes and Consequences for Greater Sudan Eric Reeves, School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London June 7 2016  Image: New York Times dispatch from Nyuru, West Darfur (February 22, 2012); the caption to this accompanying photograph reads in part, “peace has settled on the region.” I hope this evening is to make sense of my title by offering a highlighted history of the past five

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Eritrean Accused of Trafficking Migrants Is Captured in Sudan, Italy Says

Eritrean Accused of Trafficking Migrants Is Captured in Sudan, Italy Says Gaia Pianigiani and Sewell Chan, The New York Times 9 June 2016 Image: European Union delegates paid tribute before rows of coffins at an airport hangar in Lampedusa, Italy, in 2013. The coffins held the bodies of the victims of the shipwreck that killed more than 300 migrants off the Sicilian island. CreditRoberto Salomone/European Commission, via European Pressphoto Agency

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