Stories about Sub-Saharan Africa from January, 2006
Kenya: Aid from Europe & US
Bankelele reports on new strategies by Europe and American in giving aid to developing countries….”he European Union will set up its own trust fund to disburse aid to Africa without...
South AFrica: Anger over poor housing
African HOUSEIT reports on street battles in Mabopane, outside Pretoria. Township residents battled with police as “they vented their anger over about poor services, and housing delivery”.
Kenya: perils of ignoring prophecy
Prophecy eludes Kenya once again writes The Girl in the Meadow. “Kikuyus are told of Mugo Wa Kibiru who was a prophet(the only one i know of myself).He warned them...
Ethiopia: Returnees v Diaspora
Weichegud!ET discusses Ethiopian returnees versus those in the Diaspora in the context of Ethiopia's continuing political crisis.
African Union human rights
Ethiopia Watch reports that the African Union human rights commission has criticised the continent's worst rights offenders, including Sudan and Zimbabwe, in a report analysts say marks a “coming of...
Sleepless in Sudan: Bloggie
Sleepless in Sudan is back in the land of blogging and finds herself a nominee in the best Middle East/Africa blog award by Bloggie.
Ethiopia: Khat arrests
Ethioblog reports that an Ethiopian on trial in Iowa over the importation of khat was found not guilty. The debate around khat is that it contains some substances designated as...
Zimbabwe: Things fall apart
Zimbabwean Pundit comments on the governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank who is trying “ineffectively” to bring down inflation. He wonders if the governor and other chefs (leaders) were listening ~”to...
Nigerian blogs this week
A round-up of some Nigerian blogs, this week.
South Africa: not an earthquake
Mszansi Afrika asks why the tremor in Johannesburg is being reported as an earthquake which was 3.2 on the Richter scale. Anything under 3.5 is “generally not felt but recorded”....
Zimbabwe: abnormal living
This is Zimbabwe explains the condition of “normality” in an abnormal environment….”When did you last feel free to discuss the political situation with a stranger in an Emergency Taxi? (Instead...
Uganda: Press freedom
Africa Blogs asks Who will join the Committee to Protect Journalists to defend Journalists?….”The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists did just that this evening in a letter reproduced here;...
South Africa: Jesus a myth?
South African blogger Moral Fibre reports on a SABC programme discussing whether Jesus was a myth or not.….”One intelligent member of the audience suggested that Africans should evaluate Christianity in...
Nigeria: Human Rights
Jeremy of Naijablog has a number of posts on homosexuality in Nigeria and publishes a section from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which would make the proposed law banning...
Kenya: Corruption just in Africa
Kikuyumoja uses metaphor to highlight the fact that corruption is not just in Africa……”The conformity between both cultures, and hence the point where the story becomes interesting, is that people...
Kenya: Tolerance and religion
African Eye asks some questions about tolerance and what he calls “bullet proof beliefs”…..What's the point of saying we believe in a religion/faith that preaches love, tolerance, kindness if we...
Sudan: Darfur Action Alerts
The Passion of the Present announces three different Action items on Darfur and Sudan, all in February which is a month of action.
Ethiopia: Expelled journalist
Meskel Square points to a report by Reporters Without Borders on the British jounalist expelled from Ethiopia, Anthony Mitchell.
Nigeria: Reviewing Daniel Pink
Jangbalajugbu-Homeland Stories is reading “A Whole New Mind” by Daniel Pink. He shares his thoughts on the book and on “abundance”…..Though he acknowledged that “Offcourse, material wealth hasn’t reached everyone...
Africa: Masks
007 in Africa introduces us to Bruce the mask seller…”He used to work for the Art Museum that shut down during civil strifes, roaming the country far and wide to...
Kenyan Sphere Roundup
First thing, condolences to the families of Kenyans who died as a result of the collapse of a six storey building in Nairobi on monday. As reported by the Standard...
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