tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1677894 2010-04-20T14:48:17+00:00 Africa Action's notes on the struggle for social, political and economic justice in Africa. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5538b1d9f88340120a817f970970b 2010-01-27T16:20:58+00:00 2010-01-27T16:20:58+00:00

From Bono to Angelina Jolie, the ‘cool’ humanitarian thing to do these days is to send money to Africa, you know, to help feed, shelter, educate and provide medical services to the starving boney children with flies on their eyes....

Feven Tsehaye http://africaaction.typepad.com/justafrica/2010/01/dead-aid-for-african-development.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5538b1d9f8834012876af4ba9970c 2010-01-06T16:08:17+00:00 2010-01-06T16:28:59+00:00

Memorial for Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) South African poet, anti-apartheid fighter, and human-rights activist Sunday January 17, 2010 2:00 pm Location: The Brecht Forum 451 West Street, between Bank and Bethune Streets, NYC. For directions, visit: http://brechtforum.org/directions Please join Busboys and...

Emira Woods http://africaaction.typepad.com/justafrica/2010/01/remembering-dennis-brutus-january-10.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5538b1d9f8834012876467d4b970c 2009-12-11T16:30:24+00:00 2009-12-11T17:16:58+00:00

Its name is “leblouh” or intensive force-feeding, and its victims are young girls. The price: her health, future, happiness and dreams. In the African country of Mauritania young girls are terrified of food because the more they are forced to...

Nyketha Lyken http://africaaction.typepad.com/justafrica/2009/12/force-feeding-is-a-violation-of-human-rights.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5538b1d9f88340128763bc8b7970c 2009-12-09T22:12:27+00:00 2009-12-09T22:12:27+00:00

In Copenhagen this week, delegates from 160 countries are gathered to come up with a global plan for reversing global warming, and combating the effects of climate change. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC or Congo) is home to...

Emira Woods http://africaaction.typepad.com/justafrica/2009/12/drc-rainforestscrucial-to-combating-global-warming.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5538b1d9f883401287625b8af970c 2009-12-07T18:39:38+00:00 2009-12-07T18:39:38+00:00

Last week Côte d’Ivoire declared a “slight change” of the Nov. 29 election date. It is the latest in a long series of delays and at a glance really just seems to be more of the same in the frustratingly...

David Haun http://africaaction.typepad.com/justafrica/2009/12/cote-divoire-watches-election-date-roll-by.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5538b1d9f8834012876243387970c 2009-12-07T17:29:39+00:00 2009-12-07T17:29:39+00:00

I entered the room with two concerns in mind… The main concern was not that I would be HIV positive. I had been preparing myself to hear such news, facilitated by South Africa, a country where there is a serious...

Emira Woods http://africaaction.typepad.com/justafrica/2009/12/hiv-tests-in-south-africa-and-the-fight-against-stigma.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5538b1d9f883401287607cc7f970c 2009-12-03T15:45:52+00:00 2009-12-03T15:46:31+00:00

Maternity in Uganda In Uganda, there is a saying that goes, “Every pregnant woman has one foot in the grave”. Citizens say this because according to the statistics: Uganda’s maternal mortality ratio is 435 deaths per 100,000 live births Uganda...

Nyketha Lyken http://africaaction.typepad.com/justafrica/2009/12/spotlight-on-ugandan-pregnant-women.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5538b1d9f8834012875a817f3970c 2009-11-16T14:15:22+00:00 2009-11-16T14:15:22+00:00

For the past few days I’ve been visiting good friends in Pimville, a township in Soweto, South Africa. Yesterday my South African mother and I went to the next street over to get airtime for her phone and for the...

Emira Woods http://africaaction.typepad.com/justafrica/2009/11/2010-world-cup-and-the-ubuntu-culture.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e5538b1d9f88340120a68a76e1970c 2009-10-29T15:39:29+00:00 2009-10-29T16:04:58+00:00

It has been a month and a day since the brutal stadium attacks in Conakry claimed the lives of a reported 157 people and injured 1,253 more. Only 3,000 of a 97,000 labor force reported to work yesterday with thousands...

Emira Woods http://africaaction.typepad.com/justafrica/2009/10/guinea-a-month-and-a-day-later.html