By John Zyombo – With a week to commemorate the international day of struggle against HIV / AIDS, province of South Kivu in eastern DRC is mobilized in the fight against sexual violence. The 16 Days of Activism began November 25 until December 10, 2010, with a peaceful march organized by the provincial division of the gender, family and children in collaboration with UNICEF and other NGOs internationals organizations in the fight against violence to women and children. This campaign aims at fighting against violence committed to women and children and to double their efforts to address it further. According... Continue Reading
To paraphrase Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of Uganda, African countries give ‘aid’ to western nations and not the other way around. By Sunny Ntayombya, Rwanda Times* That might sound wacky but the man has a point. We send them our raw materials, they process them into various goods and then they export them back to us. We buy them and the cycle continues. At the end of the day, we become poorer and poorer, and they become richer and richer. And because they don’t want us to become so totally financially crippled, they give us ‘aid’. This aid is killing... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa Rewind – Equatorial Guinea is a nation, an African country, “… the country lies hidden under the staple,” Adam Roberts wrote in his book ‘The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa’ . But hey no, the country has oil, and besides oil it has human lives. In looking back at the year 2004, through the eyes of a writer, we at Shout-Afica try to recall and understand events that led to real big man becoming real foolish. In the Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and a Ruthless Determination to... Continue Reading
By Novell Zwange – JOHANNESBURG – This year’s Jozi Book Fair held at the MuseumAfrica, in Newtown, South Africa attracted some hard-hitting writers. Among them is the now Pretoria-based Zimbabwean politician-turned writer, Ruyedzo Mutizwa, who launched his latest book, GUKURAHUNDI IDEOLOGY; WHY ZIMBABWE IS IN CRISIS ISBN 978.O.60.406178 His book launch in Johannesburg came on the heels of the banning of art paintings by another Zimbabwean artist, the Bulawayo-based Owen Maseko whose Gukurahundi Exhibition stirred a hornet’s. Gukurahundi which means removal of chuff was a notorious operation by Zimbabwe’s 5th Brigade in the Matebeleland. The massacres by the North Korea-trained... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson in (KAMPALA UGANDA) – The Hague -AP- The former vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba of Democratic Republic of Congo denies murder, rape and pillage in the Central African Republic (CAR) at the start of his war crimes trial, in a case the chief prosecutor says will define a commander’s legal responsibility to control his troops. The trial of Bemba, 48, is only the third to get under way at the International Criminal Court since it began work in 2002. Bemba, who had been seen as a potential presidential candidate in the DRC’s next election, is the most senior political... Continue Reading
