"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
– Once surrounding castles of old, a moat stretching 100 miles is being dug by Tunisia against alleged terror threats from nearby Libya. Reporters are kept at bay from the digging in what officials have dubbed “a closed military area.”
Saltwater will fill the massive trench to be topped with sand dunes. Alligators are not mentioned in the moat’s prospectus.
Thousands of young Tunisians drown trying to make their way to Europe, hoping that the West can offer a life that their own country cannot. Thousands are going to neighbouring Libya or other countries to wage jihad against what they perceive as the Western way of life, thirsty for vengeance against the West and its values.
Two recent reports highlight the need for new approaches to handle the significant rise in asylum seekers entering the European Union. While Amnesty International identifies multiple human rights violations in the non-EU territory between Greece and Hungary, it stresses that the solution to end the abuses must be a European one.
African success stories are currently far too rare of an occurrence. As such, when they do occur, it is important to highlight both the successes themselves as well as their origins. Such is the case with organic agriculture in Tunisia. In this interview for Women for Expo, a project promoted by Expo Milano 2015, Samia Maamer, the Director General for Organic Agriculture at the Tunisian Ministry of Agriculture, discusses the role that women play in organic agriculture and how it “has clear benefits for the trade balance, the environment and people’s health.”
Following Islamic State’s recent violent attack in Tunisia, extremist ideologies and the danger they pose to Tunisian society, especially women, has rarely been more relevant. In this interview with Afronline.org, conducted in the context of WE – Women for Expo, Soukeina Bouraoui, the President of CAWTAR – Center of Arab Woman for Training and Research, discusses the role of rural women in Tunisia today and how extremists “rather than wanting to base Tunisian society on Islamic traditions, wish to push it towards their own ideological extremism.
Tunis/Addis Ababa – Ketsela Negatu is the son of an Ethiopian goat farmer living close to the country’s capital, Addis Ababa, who refuses to follow in his father’s footsteps. The 19-year-old has negative perceptions about the family profession after seeing the dim prospects a farming livelihood has offered his father.
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.
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.
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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