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Kasai Region, the epicenter of recent violence and humanitarian crisis in Congo (DRC)

We already mentioned the dire humanitarian crisis in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Last year we published an editorial (in French): Denis Mukwege et l’avenir de la RD du Congo. IRIN also published an article on the Congo crisis: How did we get here? A...

La bande-dessinée ‘Guantánamo Kid, l’histoire de vraie de Mohammed El-Gorani’ de Jérôme Tubiana

Jérôme Tubiana est journaliste et chercheur indépendant, spécialiste du Soudan et du Tchad, que nous évoquons régulièrement sur le MagkaSama Project. Il était notre invité du panel d’experts lors de la soirée que nous avons organisée en décembre 2016 pour la première...

Mohammed bin Salman called out about jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi

Last year Ensaf Haidar addressed Saudi Arabia at U.N human Rights Council regarding her husband, convicted on several charges in 2013 and sentenced to 1000 lashes and 10 years in prison for using his liberal blog to criticize Saudi Arabia’s clerics. On January, Haidar was in France and...

‘It would be a better world if women felt safe in public spaces’ – By Salma Belhassine, activist from Tunisia

Last week UN Women published a story in the ‘From where I stand…‘ editorial series about Salma Belhassine, a 21-year-old activist from Tunisia, part of the Youth Leadership Programme, an initiative by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) in partnership with UN...

Sudan: Some critics freed, others remain in custody

The deteriorating economic conditions prompted protests in Sudan, starting last January. We posted an article on the situation a couple of weeks ago in: Sudan: Economic collapse accelerating and inflation rate at 128%… The reaction of Sudanese security forces has once again been very...

RDC: Concessions reinstated and awarded to Chinese-owned logging companies

In an article (here) published last week by Global Witness about concessions reinstated and awarded to Chinese-owned logging companies, the organization quotes Irene Wabiwa Betoko, Greenpeace Africa Senior Campaign Manager. We are alarmed that the Minister of Environment has illegally...

Jailed Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega has been released!

We have been supporting Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega the last 5 years, and we called for his release several times. In this post from 2013: Free Ethiopian Journalist Eskinder Nega, we shared a video of Nega. A couple of months later, in a smuggled letter from prison,...

‘Douces déroutes’, le nouveau roman de Yanick Lahens

Yanick Lahens est une écrivaine haïtienne reconnue et très impliquée en Haiti pour y avoir fondé plusieurs associations et une bibliothèque à Saint-Louis-du-Nord. Le mois dernier l’auteure a sorti son nouveau livre chez Sabine Wespieser, un roman intitulé ‘Douces...

La Chaîne de l’Espoir inaugure le Centre Cardio Pédiatrique Cuomo de Dakar !

Nous soutenons les actions de La Chaîne de l’Espoir et si nous relayons régulièrement leurs événements et conférences sur le site et dans nos Newsletters, il est aujourd’hui question d’une inauguration, celle du Centre Cardio-Pédiatrique Cuomo (CCPC) de Dakar au...

Anti-government protests in Iran: at least a dozen people dead

On Tuesday, in our post about the child rapes and murders in Kavumu (RDC) we mentioned a tweet by Max Dana from Januray 1st saying she was concerned by the dire and preoccupying situation in Iran. The biggest unrest to strike the country in almost a decade since post-election unrest in...