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Edwidge Danticat reacts to Trump’s ‘Shithole countries’ remark targeting Africa, Haiti

Edwidge Danticat reacts to Trump’s ‘Shithole countries’ remark targeting Africa, Haiti

Last month we published two articles reacting to the disparaging words made by Donald Trump on Haiti: Cholera outbreak in Haiti: Multimillion-dollar UN fund blocked and Our Country (Haiti) Deserves Your Respect, Not Your Pity – By Paul Altidor. Now Edwidge Danticat reacts to...

Tunisie : Quand la crise économique et sociale pousse les tunisiens dans la rue

Depuis plusieurs jours, les tunisiens sont dans la rue. La situation économique et sociale est difficile, et la Tunisie doit encore faire face à de nombreux problèmes dans un pays où 30 % des jeunes sont sans emploi. Dans un tweet envoyé en début de semaine par Max Dana qui...

Kavumu: Child Rapes and Murders Declared Crimes Against Humanity in Landmark Case

The first retweet of 2018 we made is a tweet from our founder Max Dana in which she mentioned the events in Congo: As a new year starts, I'm very concerned by the dire situation of so many people, here and abroad. Current events in #Iran and #DRC are preoccupying. Hard to wish an...

‘Our Country (Haiti) Deserves Your Respect, Not Your Pity’ – By Paul Altidor

Two weeks ago we posted an article on Haiti after the cholera outbreak and its consequences: Cholera outbreak in Haiti: Multimillion-dollar UN fund blocked. In that post we referred to the article by Miami Herald Correspondant Jacqueline Charles: On eve of high-level U.N. Haiti visit,...

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...

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...

Crumbling Congo – the making of a humanitarian emergency by IRIN

We regularly recommend reports and articles to help you better understand what is at stake in Congo. Today we selected an article by IRIN on the Congo crisis: How did we get here? A look on how a political crisis evolved to a “Level 3” humanitarian emergency. The article...

Ominous Threats Descending On Darfur by Suliman Baldo (Enough Project)

Ominous Threats Descending On Darfur by Suliman Baldo (Enough Project)

In this new report, Enough Project Senior Advisor Dr. Suliman Baldo, analyzes tensions and dynamics surrounding the mandatory weapons collection and unlicensed vehicle regularization/confiscation campaign that is currently underway in the five Darfur and three Kordofan federal states in...

How South Sudan’s elite looted its foreign reserves by Simona Foltyn

In 2016, The Sentry’s 2-year investigation ‘In South Sudan, war crimes shouldn’t pay’ revealed networks fueling one of the world’s deadliest conflict zones implicating President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar, international banks, arms dealers,...




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