Y'en a marre, a nonviolent Senegalese youth movement, has changed the political landscape ahead of next year’s elections.
Archive for the “Africa” Category
-
Leave a Comment
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Governance & Accountability
Topics: Abdoulaye Wade, Casamance region, Electricity, floods, Hip hop, rap, Senegal, Senegalese Democratic Party, West Africa, Y en a marre
-
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was a refreshing acknowledgment of courageous female leaders who are struggling for a peaceful way forward where women and men are provided equal opportunities to flourish in society.
-
The latest twist in the saga of the fall of the Qaddafi regime has again focused attention on the relationship between Libya and the International Criminal Court, and on the broad question of how to obtain accountability for national and international crimes.
-
Unprecedented political protests in Senegal are putting pressure on officials to improve democratic practices. But will these movements last?
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: Abdoulaye Wade, elections, Khaita Sylla, M23, Senegal
-
A move by the U.S. to seize around $70m of assets held by the son of the ruler of Equatorial Guinea suggests Washington will no longer provide a safe haven for the corrupt proceeds of kleptocracy.
-
Muammar al-Qaddafi’s demise only further underscores the importance and urgency of capturing the two remaining fugitives from international justice—his son, Saif al-Islam, and his head of Military Intelligence, Colonel Abdullah Al-Senussi.
-
The manipulation of citizenship laws for political purposes has long been a popular way of excluding opponents and silencing critics. In Zambia it's become all too familiar.
-
In the small town of Malindi, Kenya, women who use drugs will never receive the services they deserve until the community listens to their needs.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, criminal justice, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, malaria, Malindi, needle exchange, police abuse, pregnancy, public health, sex workers, statelessness, Umra Omar, women
-
Liberians have seen hell, fought two civil wars, and killed each other, yet most believe that things can get better. Their vote in the 2011 election is their power and their passport to a new future.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: elections, Liberia, Nigeria, poverty, Udo Jude Ilo
-
In a few days Liberians will vote in the first post-war presidential and parliamentary elections. Will they be free, fair, and peaceful?