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Kenya’s New Anti-Graft Tsar Comes with Baggage 27 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
Nairobi, Kenya: Reciting the past criminal indiscretions of public figures is something of a national pastime in Kenya. Everyone knows who is ‘dirty’ and who is not. Those in the latter (and somewhat...
Weekly Newsletter 27 August 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 05:41 pm
Author(s): James Schneider Show Author Info?: 0 Dear Reader,Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former president, and various Muslim Brotherhood leaders faced trial in two separate cases this Sunday. Mubarak.....
Richard Dicker 27 Aug 2013 | 03:24 pm
Photo: Richard is Director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch.
In the Heat of the Night: Living Under Cairo's Curfew 23 Aug 2013 | 04:13 pm
Cairo, Egypt: The crowded Egyptian capital is mostly deserted between the hours of 7pm and 6am when the curfew, set in place by the interior ministry as a measure against the country’s recent violenc...
Remembering Slavery: A Thing of the Past? 23 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
Today marks the UNESCO International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, designated to commemorate the transatlantic slave trade and its victims. On this day, 23 August, in 1...
Say My Name, Say My Name: How "Shout-outs" Keep Congolese Rumba Fighting Fit 22 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: Twice a week at Hôtel la Crèche in Matongé – one of the most bustling and culturally-diverse neighbourhoods in the Congolese capital – the evening becomes a 19...
Mugabe's Inauguration: It Was Acceptable in the 80s 22 Aug 2013 | 11:03 am
In Harare today, President Robert Mugabe, 89, the man who has dominated Zimbabwean politics for over three decades, will be inaugurated for another term. The inauguration ceremony follows the decision...
Striking Out: How Kenya's Unions Have Gone from Hero to Zero 21 Aug 2013 | 05:08 pm
Nairobi, Kenya: The July teachers’ strike in Kenya started with a roar and ended with a whimper. Calling for improved salaries and allowances, 200,000 defiant teachers, largely under the banner of th...
Ethiopia: When a Traditional Past Collides with an Irrigated Future 21 Aug 2013 | 03:11 pm
Kangaton, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia: A short stroll away from the bloated Omo River in Ethiopia's far south, a new type of settlement is forming on the outskirts ...
Cracking Down on Hooking Up: DRC, LGBT, PDA 21 Aug 2013 | 02:11 pm
Author(s): Valérie Bah Show Author Info?: 0 Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Topic: Gender African Region: Central Country: Democractic Republic of the Congo
