Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
 

 
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The Wound Still Pains, 20 Years Later…

I was sent on assignment by my editor to head to the Rwanda High Commission to cover the Genocide Commemoration. This was the second time I would be attending such an event. The first was in 2011. I must say, I grew up with the...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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Cancer And The Tobacco Industry In Africa

During the World Cancer Day (4th of February 2014) the message which spread across the world media was the cancer burden can no longer be ignored. As figures reached the mark of 14 million new cases per year in 2012 and is expe...
by Daniele Bassi
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Gender Based Violence: The scourge of emergencies

Even the most well resourced nation is almost always caught off guard by an emergency. An emergency can cause a humanitarian crisis which leads to a total or considerable breakdown of authority resulting from conflict. In many ...
by Jermain Ndhlovu
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South Africa Within the BRICS: Friend or Foe to the Rest of Africa?

South Africa’s inclusion within the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) poses the thought of how relations will be affected between South Africa and the rest of Africa. The 5th BRICS summit will definitely t...
by Kamleshan Pillay
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90% of Madagascar Lives On Less Than Two Dollars a Day. Why?

Less than two months from the country’s planned election date, there are several questions being asked about the future of Madagascar. In the first installment of our examination of the Malagasy crisis, we discussed the ...
by Lova Rakotomalala
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The Relevance of Youth Leagues, Subsidies and Agencies in South Africa

Recent events in the course of South Africa’s social and political process have led many to pose the question as to whether youth leagues, agencies and subsidies are still useful. And indeed, such a question has been raised w...
by Mark Mngomezulu
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Bent Nigeria: Religion, Violence, And Boko Haram

“Brothers pulverised 21 armoured tanks. People were killed in their multitudes, bodies scattered all over…Had Allah allowed us to eat them we would have eaten them but we are not cannibals. This is a victory from Allah. The...
by Tamar Ziff
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The 5 Most Dangerous Gangs In The World

At the moment it seems like a new incident of religiously-driven gang violence is appearing in the newspapers every day. What with the recent Kenyan mall massacre and the Nairobi school shooting, it seems like we have a chain r...
by Maddie Barber
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Vaccine Politics : The Return Of A Global Threat

It was not long ago that a crippled man became the most powerful person on the planet. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest-serving President of the United States, a man who helped take the country out of an economic depre...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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