By Jim Fisher-Thompson -CHAD – Dr. Grace Kodindo speaks from the heart as well as her experience as an obstetrician in Africa as she describes the dangers women face in conflict zones, where reproductive and maternal health care is severely lacking and where rape is often used as a weapon of war. Kodindo, a physician from Chad — home to thousands of displaced persons fleeing conflict in neighboring countries like Sudan — previewed a documentary film at the State Department June 2 that highlighted the trials women face in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where mothers are often... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa News – KHARTOUM — The Libyan government today formally announced that it has no intention of handing over a Darfur rebel leader to Sudan to face charges related to a 2008 attack he launched on the capital. The leader of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Khalil Ibrahim has been residing in the Libyan capital following the surprising refusal by Chadian authorities to let him in and forced him to return to Tripoli after destroying his passport. Chad has been a hub for JEM fighters and political officers through which they entered to their bases inside Darfur. However,... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa Reviews – Chielo Zona Eze’s debut novel is set in the African afterlife; Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, stands trial for the wrongs he has committed against his people in which the late South Africa nationalist, Steve Biko and the late Zimbabwean writers Yvonne Vera and Dambudzo Marechera are among the members of a divine jury helping God decide Zimbabwean President Mugabe’s fate. In the first half of the novel, four Zimbabweans share their story of how Mugabe’s tactics led to their death. In the second half, Yvonne Vera, an important Zimbabwean writer who is present at the... Continue Reading
By Ronald Mureverwi – The just ended week is arguably the most significant time in the history of Zimbabwe if not the moment of destiny following a series of historic events that took place ushering a wave of new positive energy towards the nation’s destiny. Beginning with the maiden appearance of one of the best football teams in the world, five time world cup winners, the Brazilians to play Zimbabwe at our home soil to the coming of one of God’s most powerful annointed ambassador to the Kingdom in preaching the Gospel- Joice Meyer, these events have inevitable made a... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa News – Cape Town – Colleagues of South African journalist Gadijah Davids were waiting for word on where she was being kept on Tuesday, after she was detained by Israeli forces who intercepted the Gaza-bound aid ferry she was travelling on. “We don’t know about her whereabouts. The Department of International Relations contacted her mom to say she is alive, but we have had no indication of her whereabouts,” Cape-based Radio786 programme director Mansur Modak told Sapa. Davids was one of over 600 people, including members of parliament, reporters, entertainers and human rights activists, who travelled with the six-ship... Continue Reading
