By Patrick Mbullo On January 7th, 2020, the Peoples Republic of China announced the outbreak of a deadly virus known as Corona. This was after a suspected case of pneumonia was reported in Wuhan City, a major transport hub in Hubei Province of China. Human Coronaviruses (HCoV) are the leading cause of respiratory illness, including […]
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By Patrick Mbullo In the Greek mythology, Chimera is described as a fire-breathing female monster whose body parts comprise of different animals including a lion, a goat and a dragon. In its heyday, Chimera breathed fire, destroyed and plundered crops. It caused great damage in the cities of Caria and Lycia until King lobtse of
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Escrito por Michel Tapia Muchos años atrás desde el Chile post dictadura de Pinochet (1990) que diferentes actores esperábamos un estallido social producto de un sistema capitalista excesivo en el escenario mundial. Excesivo en súper explotación y concentración de la riqueza(salarios sin relación con el costo de vida mínimo, sostenido por endeudamiento junto con altos
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The Committee to Protect Journalists has found that the number of journalists imprisoned for their reporting globally reached at least 250 in 2019 for the fourth consecutive year, with China and Turkey topping the list of the world’s leading jailers. As of December 1, 2019, the Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 250 journalists are in
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By Muthoki Mumo and Jonathan Rozen The ongoing detentions of Nigerian publisher Agba Jalingo and Ethiopian editor Fekadu Mahtemework–the only journalists behind bars for their work in their countries, according to CPJ’s latest prison census–don’t tell the whole story of their governments’ crackdowns on freedom of expression. Investigations throughout 2019 to compile CPJ’s list of 250 journalists imprisoned
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The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) in New York and other human rights groups have called on Nigerian authorities to halt all efforts to intimidate journalists working with the Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news website headquartered in the United States. Sahara Reporters staff told CPJ their Nigerian bank account was frozen without advance notice in October, significantly hindering their
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By Mohamed Gibril Sesay Literature is often seen as referring to the written-word, and sometimes, further tightened to mean the scripted-word of the creative type, and again tweaked to be perceived as the printed-word of the fictional creative type –novels, short stories, poetry, drama. Our discussion of Sierra Leonean Literature dances to these understandings,
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The Committee to Protect Journalists today launched its annual #FreeThePress campaign to raise awareness of jailed journalists globally. The campaign will highlight the plight of several journalists via CPJ’s Instagram account. In dictatorships and developing democracies alike imprisonment has become an effective method to silence the press, with record numbers jailed globally in the past three
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By: John Gonzales For the past two weeks, Chileans have been protesting in the streets. The spark which ignited the protests started when the government increased the subway fare in Santiago by 30 pesos (or about 4 cents in U.S. dollars). High school students were the first to initiate the resistance, calling on people
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah There has been a lot of outrage in Sierra Leone since the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) handcuffed and frog-marched a group of school teachers allegedly arrested for “examination malpractice” in Freetown. The dramatic event is a sequel to the country’s poor performance in the recently concluded West African senior secondary
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