by Lelety Mabasa – Zimbabwe – There was chaos and pandemonium at Harare’s city center on January 23rd, as thousands of ordinary people came face-to-face with the wrath of the police’s riot squad, who were summoned by Zimbabwe’s aging President,…
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Mugabe’s Opposition, the MDC, Refuses to Be Crushed
Tagged with: Africa, Economy, Elections, human rights, Politics, Robert Mugabe, Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Free from Mugabe’s Grip, Zanu PF Split Is the Only Chance for a Better Zimbabwe
by Constance Manika – Zimbabwe – In my last article I wrote that the situation here is so dire that many Zimbabweans, including myself, can now only pray for divine intervention to rid us of this dictator, Robert Mugabe. Based…
Tagged with: Africa, corruption, Dictatorship, Politics, Robert Mugabe, Simba Makoni, ZANU PF, Zimbabwe
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Mugabe Mobilizes Veterans to Help Seize 2008 Presidency: Freedom Is the Next Casualty
by Constance Manika – Zimbabwe – In Zimbabwe 2007 closed on a very sad note. December was a very eventful month: it was President Mugabe’s busiest and most desperate month, as he fought to stamp out the criticism of his…
Tagged with: Africa, corruption, Elections, Politics, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
A New Dawn for Nigerian Women? Time Will Tell
by Susan Enuogbope Majekodunmi – Nigeria – Nigeria is an oil-rich country in West Africa also endowed with other mostly unexploited natural resources, such as coal and tin, iron ore and other valuable minerals. Colonized by the British, their influence…
Tagged with: Africa, corruption, Economy, gender equality, Islam, Nigeria, Politics, Women in Leadership, women politicians, women's empowerment
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
A Journalist’s Despair: HIV-Positive Zimbabweans Can’t Access ARVs
By Constance Manika – Zimbabwe – I am always left cursing and depressed and angry after covering assignments where I meet with People Living With HIV and AIDS. (We call them PLWAs here.) Having covered HIV and AIDS issues for…
Tagged with: Africa, Economy, Healthcare, HIV/AIDS, Journalism, Politics, poverty, Zimbabwe
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Child Rights Activist Betty Makoni “Lights Up the Dark” for Abused and Disadvantaged Young Girls
by Constance Manika – Zimbabwe – “The stories we listened to made us bleed inside, the genital wounds we later had to help nurse evoked us, the long distances we traveled every day and night to educate girls on their…
Tagged with: Africa, Child Rights, Education, Politics, rape, Sexual Violence, women activists, Women's Rights, Zimbabwe
Posted in Education, FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in Education, FEATURE ARTICLES
Angels in the Dust: A Glimmer of Hope in HIV/AIDS Epidemic
by Jessica Mosby – USA – 100 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa will have been infected with HIV/AIDS by the year 2010. Another 26 million children will be orphaned by the virus. The idea that two ordinary people could affect,…
Tagged with: Africa, Arts & Culture, documentary, Education, Health, HIV/AIDS, humanitarianism, South Africa
Posted in Education, FEATURE ARTICLES
Posted in Education, FEATURE ARTICLES
Mugabe Has Turned the Zimbabwean Army & Police Against Their Own People: It’s No Place for Cowards
by Constance Manika – Zimbabwe – As I write this piece, a soldier is in critical condition at the army hospital after residents from the notorious suburb, Mufakose attacked him and three of his colleagues for “harassing innocent civilians”. It’s…
Tagged with: activism, Africa, Infrastructure, Mugabe, police brutality, Zimbabwe
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Film Review – The Devil Came on Horseback: A US Marine Is Witness to Slaughter in Darfur
by Jessica Mosby – USA – The United Nations defines genocide as “acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” To date, some 200,000 people have been killed and…
Tagged with: Africa, Arts & Culture, Darfur, Films & Documentaries, genocide, Sudan, United States
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
Interception of Communications Act Sparks Debate and Fear: Zimbabwean Human Rights Activists Up in Arms
by Constance Manika – Zimbabwe – The recent passing of the Interception of Communication Act, signed into law by Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on August 3, 2007, has sparked much debate and inspired just as much fear in the heart’s…
Tagged with: Africa, citizen rights, espionage, human rights, journalists, laws, legislation, Mugabe, Zimbabwe
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics
