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Without a home, without a solution: Short-term fixes won’t solve the world’s refugee crises

Recently, a destabilising and disturbing trend has been proliferating throughout all corners of the globe. This year has seen record numbers of refugees fleeing economic hardship, political prosecution, and vicious attacks in c...
by Jamal Russell Black
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Death by Omission: African migration tragedy in the Mediterranean and the European Union

VIDEO LINK: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/19/700-migrants-feared-dead-mediterranean-shipwreck-worst-yet As the voyage for seeking a better life for many migrants led them to their untimely death in the Mediterranean...
by Paridhi Singh
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Legal Job Trafficking in Sweden

Over the past two years 47 Cameroonians have gone to Sweden to work with tree plantation in the northern forests. They were all expecting to return to their families with enough money to pay off debts, invest and start a better...
by Boel Marcks von Würtemberg
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Madagascar: Why I’m Not Giving Up On Politicians (Yet)

On October 25, 2013, my home country of Madagascar will finally be electing a new president. In recent years the citizens of Madagascar have witnessed their economy plunge into the abyss, its natural resources pillaged. Accor...
by Lova Rakotomalala
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Shouldn’t They Be In Class?

Earlier today at around midday I saw a group of kids, not more than 15, who by their size appeared to be in nursery school. The little boys and girls in pink checked shirts and grey pair of shorts were clustered in front of som...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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Human Rights

WATCH: Peace vs justice in Uganda

In December 2003, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda referred the situation concerning the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. With the cooperation of Ugandan authorities and i...
by Diana Naoum
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Travelers Against Plastic

Plastic bottles and plastic paper bags are a threat to our environment. A couple of years back, the government of Kenya abolished plastic paper bags and advocated for bio-degradable carry bags or cloth reusable bags. The privat...
by Fridah Mlemwa
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The African Women’s Decade

We Celebrate! My twitter timeline was on fire a couple of weeks ago, just as it was in April when Joyce Banda was sworn in as the commander in chief of Malawi, making her the second female president in Africa, 6 years after Ell...
by Ruth Nyambura
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Kenyan Slum Tours: Voyeurism Or Altruism

Kibera, is possibly the largest and most renowned slum in Africa; home to approximately a million people, a site for hundreds of charities and a place considered the typical slum situation. Although, what can be considered typi...
by Flo Carson
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