MagkaSama Team

Nafie Ali Nafie: Not Welcome in America

The US State Department has invited  a senior delegation of the National Congress Party (NCP), headed by Nafie Ali Nafie, the Sudanese presidential assistant and deputy chairman of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), to visit the United States for ‘high level talks‘....

Sheryl Sandberg ‘Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead’

Our next Reading Group will be about Sheryl Sandberg‘s book:  ‘Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead‘. The book of COO of Facebook published on March 11, 2013, has already been translated in 24 languages and is on the top of the US bestseller lists since its...

Syrian child refugees, Fire burns 250 tents in Darfur, Joseph Kony Was Here

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Syrian child refugees in Jordan have no access to school and are forced to work to support their families; Fire burns 250 tents in Darfur IDP camp; Joseph Kony Was Here by Christoph Koettl. - CARE Urges...

#FreeKordofanWomen: Campaign to Release South Kordofan Women

Girifna, which translates from Arabic as “we are fed up” (with war, corruption, dictatorship, injustice, and discrimination against minorities), is a grassroots movement founded by a group of university students in October of 2009 to create a pro-democracy movement that could unite...

Dessine-moi l’Afrique at Dorothy’s Gallery in Paris

Dorothy’s Gallery is a Paris art gallery dedicated to American art and culture. The gallery features many different types of art : painting, photography, sculpture, installations, video art. The mission of Dorothy’s gallery is to promote talented and well known artists, as...

Uganda expels ‘rebels’, Babies victims of rape, Carbon bubble

Our weekly round-up of must-read stories you might have missed. In focus this week: Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement has recommended the expulsion of four outspoken members of parliament from the party; Babies as young as six months victims of rape in war: U.N. envoy;...

Three international journalists asked to leave Bahrain

The Committee to Protect Journalists says the Bahraini government ordered three journalists from the British television network ITV to leave the country today, according to news reports citing an ITV spokesman. The journalists, who were also briefly detained on Thursday, are in the...

Tunisia Ben Ali son-in-law granted asylum in Seychelles

The son-in-law of Tunisia’s former president has been granted asylum in the Seychelles, officials say. Businessman Sakher El Materi was arrested as he tried to enter in the island state in December 2012 and reportedly applied to stay in February. He had fled Tunisia for Qatar after...

Congo’s Conflict Gold Trade: U.S. Should Sanction Smugglers

In an article posted by Sasha Lezhnev, the Senior Policy Analyst at Enough Project explains why it is the time for the Obama administration to have a major impact and sanction smugglers: This morning the Wall Street Journal published an exposé on the conflict gold trade from eastern...

Vote for Children Mending Hearts: Kids Helping Kids!

We are supporting Children Mending Hearts for a couple of years now, first through the Sama Gazette, now on the MagkaSama Project. Children Mending Hearts (CMH) is a Los Angeles non-profit dedicated to empowering local disadvantaged youth by giving them a chance to help other children....