MagkaSama Team

Soudan du Sud : les femmes manifestent pour la paix et contre les violences

Depuis l’indépendance du Soudan du Sud en 2011, le pays a connu de nombreux conflits, des famines et des déplacements de population. Résultat d’une guerre civile sanglante entre partisans du président Salva Kiir et ceux du vice-président Riek Machar. Et au coeur de ces...

Situation des migrants en France : les actions de La Cimade et les mots de Raphaël Pitti

La situation précaire des migrants qui arrivent en Europe et plus particulièrement en France fait quodiennement la une, même si la réalité de ce qu’ils vivent ne semble pas forcément émouvoir l’opinion publique. Après des années de disparitions en mer et de torture...

La Chaîne de l’Espoir lance un appel pour Keon, 4 ans

Il y a quelques semaines La Chaîne de l’Espoir lançait un appel pour Keon, 4 ans, qui est en grand danger : le petit garçon souffre en effet d’une terrible maladie de naissance, la maladie de Hirschprung. On peut lire sur le site que cette maladie de naissance qui touche le...

Sudan: Illegal migration, Religious oppression, Removal of sanctions and the ICC

Here’s a news roundup of the recent news regarding Sudan. We selected four articles we consider worth the read, on topics we regularly evoke on the MagkaSama Project. Let’s start with this article from Sudan Tribune: Sudan vows continued cooperation with EU to combat illegal...

Cholera outbreak in Haiti: Multimillion-dollar UN fund blocked

As you may already know, the cholera outbreak was introduced to Haiti by Nepalese troops who were part of a U.N. peacekeeping mission. It had spread across the country from October 2010 to May 2017, and it was the first modern large scale outbreak of cholera. Last month, in this article...

Jacqueline Fall, A psychologist alongside traumatized children in Kavumu (DRC)

Last week during our Human Rights Week, we published a series of posts and one of them was about Congo. We shared with you an article by Darcy Ataman, founder and CEO of Make Music Matter, music producer and guest lecturer at the University of Winnipeg. In The Art of Resilience in the...

Aid Workers Under Pressure in Calais – Human Rights Watch

The life of migrants is not easy when they arrive in a country after their long journey, and it is particularly true for Calais, France. But the situation of aid workers is not easy either according to an article by Helen Griffiths, coordinator in the Children’s Rights Division of Human...

Celebrate Human Rights Day and #StandUp4HumanRights!

This week has been a very busy week, and we’re glad many of you could celebrate Human Rights Week with us. We published articles related to Human Rights: Celebrate Human Rights Week with The MagkaSama Project! Orange Day 2017 : Unissons-nous contre les violences dans l’espace...

Darfur: ethnically-targeted violence continues on a wide scale – By Eric Reeves

Max Dana founded The MagkaSama Project in 2003, during the mass slaughter and rape of Darfuri men, women, and children in Western Sudan. It has been recognized as the first genocide in the 21st century. Since then, our goal is to raise awareness about what is going on in Sudan and its...

Photojournalist Shawkan turns 30 facing death behind bars in Egypt

During this Human Rights Week, we had to dedicate a post to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. As you already know if you are following us on Twitter @MagkaSama and if you read our website, Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid (known as Shawkan) was arrested in 2013 while...