The Great Digital Leap Forward in Africa
IHub is an oasis of modern order in the otherwise so chaotic Kenyan capital Nairobi. Absorbed on their screens and with headphones strapped on,...
Run up to Kenyan elections already bloody
Eric Kioko is in seventh heaven. He has been working since the first of January as ‘DJ Talanta’ with the popular radio station Ghetto...
Touareg, scapegoats of Mali’s misery
Mohamed Moctar is packing his belongings. There is not much is his room besides a sleeping mat, a blanket, a small sound system, a...
The enemy has become invisible
After French and Malian military chased insurgents out of some of the main cities and towns they had conquered, the insurgents withdrew into the rice fields. Or they fused with the population in the surrounding villages. They have become invisible.
Islamic radicals and a movement which wants indepence for the coast both exploit anger about marginalisation and youth employment. The Kenyan coast is boiling.
Native inhabitants of Lamu see new port as threat
In March 2012, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki gave the go-ahead for a second port in Kenya. The new harbour, calculated to cost over twenty billion Euros, will be constructed in Magogoni on the mainland, just opposite of the archipelago Lamu and some hundred kilometres south of Somalia. Lamu views the arrival of the harbor with trepidation.
The Nuba Crisis: A Continuing Assault
The war in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan continues unabated. A rare eywitness account
When Antonovs fly over: history repeats istelf
The story was published 12 years ago. Many Sudanese today would not notice a difference. A old postcard from Antonov
Homosexuality in Kenya: Pushing from behind!
Kisumu is a Macho city, situated more than 350 Kilometers from Nairobi on the shores of Lake Victoria, it’s an area known for braggers who wine and dine big or small time flossing about their property and women, how do gays fair against this population?
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