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UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (UPI) -- A U.N. investigator of racism and discrimination has begun a three-week visit to examine human rights abuses in the United States, a statement says. Special rapporteur Doudou Diene of Senegal plans to meet with lawmakers and analysts across the United States and...
Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Amy Musgrave Johannesburg SOARING food prices will be under the spotlight at an African Union-New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) workshop starting in Pretoria today. Organisers said on Friday that the high level pan-African regional workshop would...
Colombant report - Listen (MP3) African countries like Senegal, where journalists regularly get sentenced to jail for what they say and write, or where the quality of reporting is not good, comedians are playing an expanding role as government watchdogs in the media. A medley of music and best of...
In what might be Italy's most exclusive restaurant, security is understandably tight. On reservation, guests are subjected to a background check. They are admitted in groups, their cellphones and bags confiscated, and they then submit to metal detector tests.
A group of Senegalese women, whose sons died trying to reach Europe on treacherous boat journeys, are saying, 'Enough' STEPHANIE NOLEN From Tuesday's Globe and Mail THIAROYE-SUR-MER, SENEGAL — A dozen young men beam out from the photograph on Yayi Diouf's desk, their arms wrapped around each...
Dakar - Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade has rejected any further talks with the country's opposition, in an interview published by the pro-government daily Le Soleil on Monday. Wade won a second term as president in February 2007 elections which the opposition claims were marred by fraud. "I...
Massive post alert, Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog, because believe it or not, there is other stuff going on in the world besides tomorrow’s much anticipated coronation. I read all these articles and reports so you don’t have to. Weeks after the food riots spread around the world, a...
IN GHANA, there is a running joke that they are all becoming Italians - they can't afford rice anymore and are eating processed pasta from Italy. These are not the poorest of the poor, these are working urban Ghanaians, according to Amrote Abdella, who runs projects to break the hunger cycle in...
NFB’s Vues d’afrique film festival offeres insightful glimpses into the complexity of culture Kader and his cohorts on their bench. Priest lurks in foreground. Welcome to Dakar. PHOTO Alex Margineanu For their involvement in this year’s Vues d’Afrique, African and Creole film festival, the...
Posted to the web 19 May 2008 John Kariuki Nairobi TWO RENOWNED CAMEROONIAN musicians are under arrest for allegedly organising street protests over escalating food prices in their country. The musicians are also in the bad books of the government for their criticism of a constitutional amendment...
