By Joshua Lew McDermott Just south of Bo, the second largest city in Sierra Leone, lies Tinkonko, a bustling and largely-rural chiefdom home to about 54,000 individuals. Like the rest of Sierra Leone, Tinkonko has a high prevalence of single mothers, especially teenage mothers, and at-risk children and orphans. A 2013 United Nations report states […]
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By Abdulrahman Koroma A sixty-three-year-old man is currently on trial in Sierra Leone on allegation of sexual assault and rape against a thirteen year old girl in Freetown, the capital of the West African country. Court officials in Freetown say Mohamed Samura, 63, faces sexual offense charges that violate Section 19 of Sierra Leone’s Sexual
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Leaders of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance in Zimbabwe have vowed to continue their challenge of Emmerson Mnangagwa’s legitimacy as the newly elected president of Zimbabwe. They are appealing to the African Commission for Human and People’s Rights to help decide a case of “stolen votes” and other electoral malpractices brought against Mnangagwa,
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Human rights organizations are demanding the immediate release of a Tanzanian journalist, Sitta Tumma. Tumma was arrested on August 8 while covering an opposition campaign rally in the Tarime district of northern Tanzania ahead of a local authority by-election. The journalist is a reporter and regional bureau chief for the privately owned Tanzania Daima newspaper. Independent eye-witnesses confirm
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Security forces in Uganda have been accused of beating and detaining four journalists covering protests in the capital, Kampala early this week. The arrested journalists include Reuters photographer James Akena, Alfred Ochwo, a photojournalist with the privately owned The Observer newspaper, and NTV journalists Ronald Galiwango and Juma Kirya. The four journalists were arrested while covering protests in Kampala to demand
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By Yahaya Ba Growing up, I knew West African families tended to be large. What I didn’t know was why my family seemed so much larger and more spread apart than others. I figured that because our ethnic group, the Halpulaar (a largely Islamic-leaning linguistic group which shares the language of Fulfudle) had originated in
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A community radio station in the northwest region of Cameroon, Sky FM has been attacked and burnt down by supposedly unknown persons. The alleged arson attack , which happened on August 3, destroyed the radio station’s two transmitters, computers, four recorders, a video camera, a mixer, a decoder, television set, and several office furniture.
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Ugandan journalist Damba Wiziri has been attacked twice while covering a recent national parliamentary election in the Sheema Municipality in Uganda.
Damba Wiziri works for the majority state-owned Vision Group’s print, television, and online platforms. A report from Uganda’s Human Rights Network for Journalists confirmed that Wiziri was attacked while covering a demonstration by members of an opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in New York has called on Nigerian authorities to immediately release Jones Abiri, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Weekly Source newspaper. Jones Abiri was arrested by Nigeria’s state security service in July 2016 and has been in jail without trial since his arrest two years ago. Abiri was brought to court on Friday in Abuja, his second court appearance in a week after two years in detention without family visitation. His lead counsel, Femi Falana confirmed that Abiri was charged at the first hearing with sending text messages to two oil companies, Shell and Agip, allegedly demanding bribe payments, but the state couldn’t produce witnesses to testify against Abiri.
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Netflix is in many ways like Youtube.com, and Facebook.com. It can be a useful tool, or a big distraction. You have the choice of watching mundane entertainment which can bring about a couple of chuckles, and a few other emotions. Or you have the choice of searching for content that may very well shake your very core. When I stumbled upon one called The House on Coco Road,I did not expect that it would start a researching journey that is still occurring to this very day. The film is about an African descendant born in America who happened to be an activist. She had the pleasure of rubbing shoulders with Angela Davis.
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