MagkaSama Team

La Bibliothèque Nationale d’Haïti (BNH) rend hommage à Frankétienne

Le mois dernier, la Bibliothèque Nationale d’Haïti (BNH) rendait hommage au comédien, poète et écrivain haïtien Frankétienne à l’occasion du 82e anniversaire de l’auteur des pièces de théâtre (‘Pèlen Tèt‘, ‘Kaselezo‘…). Et de très nombreux...

Retour sur la soirée ‘Combattre l’esclavage en Libye et dans le monde’ avec le témoignage d’un réfugié soudanais

En février dernier nous vous invitions à participer à la soirée ‘Combattre l’esclavage en Libye et dans le monde’ organisée par le Collectif Urgence Darfour le 14 février 2018 à Paris. Certains d’entre vous s’y sont rendu et nous ont fait part du succès de la...

16-year-old activist Zaynub Afinnih at the Sudanese Embassy in Paris

On May 4, we posted our first article: Marital rape victim Noura Hussein faces execution in Sudan. A week later, Noura Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging. A few days later, we invited you to Sign the petition to support Noura Hussein on Change.org. Then Amnesty International...

‘Il faut sauver la jeune Soudanaise condamnée à mort Noura Hussein Hamad’ (Le Monde)

Depuis le début du mois (lire notre news du 4 mai dernier), l’ensemble du MagkaSama Project se mobilise pour Noura Hussein, la jeune soudanaise mariée de force à 16 ans à un homme plus âgé, et qui après avoir été violée plusieurs fois par son mari, l’a tué lors...

Oxfam boss Mark Goldring hit by Haiti scandal to stand down

Oxfam Great Britain chief executive Mark Goldring, who was criticized for his handling of a scandal over the use of prostitutes in Haiti by Oxfam staff, was in London on February 20 to respond to allegations of sex abuse by his organization’s workers in Haiti. The organization said...

UNICEF mobilizing hundreds of community workers to fight Ebola outbreak in DRC

If we don’t hear much about Ebola anymore in the news outside of Africa, the Government of in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus on May 8, and UNICEF is mobilizing hundreds of community workers. We're mobilizing hundreds of community...

Kenya to audit mining licences

Africa is enormously bountiful and the commercial exploitation of its resources is more than 500 years old. Many countries of the African continent are now to taking control over their mining and logging industry to benefit, eventually, from their natural resources. China’s gaining...

Noura Hussein: Sign the Petition and Send the message by Amnesty International

Earlier this week we invited you to sign the petition to support Noura Hussein on Change.org. A few days have past and many people have already shown their support to the 19-year-old Noura Hussein, sentenced to death by hanging because she killed our husband in self-defense after...

‘All Sudan Cultural Day 2018’ Event by Waging Peace was a success!

In this news we published in March, we announced the event organized by Waging Peace on May, 5. Over 750 members of the community joined the organization for ‘All Sudan Cultural Day 2018’ in Birmingham. Sudan’s most famous musicians, like Omer Ihsas attented the event, as well as...

Attacks on reporters by governor’s bodyguards in DRC’s Kasai province (RSF)

The Kasai province is a dangerous place to live. Last year IRIN wrote: Crumbling Congo – the making of a humanitarian emergency, and in March we published a post: Kasai Region, the epicenter of recent violence and humanitarian crisis in Congo. Journalists working in the region are also...