"Africa is dying in silence for no one listens to its voice"
Last Sunday, organised groups of Muslim nomadic shepherds massacred hundreds of Christian farmers with their families. Massive burials are still taking place in three villages where it all happened, Dogo Nahawa, Zot and Ratsat. And while the army and the police are guarding the area, Nigerian authorities have promised to work as hard as they can to avoid another bloodbath. But it all raises new questions on the current situation in the country.
Over 300,000 people in the Mount Elgon region and the neighbouring lowlands of Butaleja, Budaka and Tororo districts have been displaced following the landslide that devastated Bududa in eastern Uganda last week, the state minister for relief and disaster preparedness, Musa Ecweru, said yesterday.
United Nations agencies are ramping up efforts to assist around 2 million Chadians who will require food aid this year because of poor rainfall and lean harvests, the world body said today.
Guinea set June 27 as the date for its first democratic election since independence in 1958 under a plan to put an end to military rule in the resource-rich west African nation.
‘Music by Prudence‘, an inspiring documentary by Roger Ross Williams about a group of disabled Zimbabwean musicians, scooped the best prize for a short documentary at the 2010 Academy Awards held in Los Angeles.
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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