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25 August 2011

Somalia: Food Security Emergency Spreads Despite Aid

Written by Juhie Bhatia · Disaster, Environment

As the Horn of Africa deals with what the Food and Agriculture Organization is calling the “most severe food security emergency in the world today,” experts warn that conditions in famine-stricken Somalia are likely to further deteriorate. Juhie Bhatia examines the spread of the disaster.

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21 February 2011

Djibouti: Will it become another Egypt?

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Governance, Protest

Protests are taking place in Djibouti against President Ismail Omar Guelleh who succeeded his uncle Hassan_Gouled_Aptidon in 1999. Somaliland Press reports that 300 protesters demonstrated near the governmental palace on Friday. Will Djibouti become another Egypt?

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30 May 2010

Chez Gangoueus: A brilliant blog about African literature in French

Written by Claire Ulrich · Blogger Profiles

A close runner-up for the Best of Blogs in French Award is Chez Guangoueus (fr). Réassi Ouabonzi blogs about African and diaspora literature in French from a reader's perspective since 2007. Here is an interview of him for Global Voices:

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24 February 2008

The groundswell of opposition to AFRICOM from African bloggers

Written by John Liebhardt · Protest, Refugees

At the tail-end of U.S. President George Bush’s six-day, five-country farewell tour of Africa came the announcement the Pentagon’s plans for a second U.S. military base on the continent of Africa is dead. Questions from the blogshpere flew: What exactly are U.S. interests in Africa?

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21 July 2006

French-Speaking Bloggers on Rabat Conference on Migration

Written by Alice Backer · Ideas, Development

What Will the Conference Bring? Says France-based African blogger Le Pangolin, Du 10 au 11 juillet 2006, s'est tenue à Rabat au Maroc, la première rencontre interministérielle euro-africaine sur les...

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2 July 2006

Africa: Is Homosexuality a Religion?

Written by Alice Backer · Law, Gay Rights (LGBT)

France-based Togolese Blogger Kangni Alem reflected on homosexuality in Africa recently. Namely, he tackled claims by some on the continent that homosexuality is a heretic religion. In the process, he...

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28 June 2006

Why No Mention of Slavery in African and Haitian Fiction?

Written by Alice Backer · Ideas, History

Why is there so little mention of slavery in African and Haitian Fiction? That is the question that Togolese France-based blogger Kangni Alem addresses in a prolific and well-thought out...

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4 June 2006

Latest in the Francophone African Blogosphere

Written by Alice Backer · Ideas, Arts & Culture

PAN-AFRICAN For the United States of Africa Le Pangolin is fervently advocating for the dissolution of the current borders that separate African countries and that, he believes, weaken each individual...

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14 May 2006

France & Francophonia Commemorate Slavery Amidst Curriculum Controversy

Written by Alice Backer · Ideas, Education

Image courtesy of oliviermr2 A Day of Remembrance France commemorated slavery for the first time on May 10, reports Haiti's Alterpresse: Le président francais qualifie d’infamie, la traite négrière et...

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7 May 2006

African Diaspora: Hard times for Africans in France and Belgium

Written by Anthony Katombe · Human Rights, Labor

Several francophone blogs have tackled African immigrants’ latest tribulations in France and Belgium. Choosing Immigrants Le Pangolin criticizes French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy’s latest round of immigration policies. The blogger...

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Updates about Djibouti

26 January 2012

English

Seychelles Whale Sharks blogs about the the 2012 Djibouti whale shark expedition: “…Gareth has passed on the important statistics for the last week which yielded a further 369 encounters which makes the total of 1077 over the three weeks of expedition…Also, Gareth managed to deploy two satellite tags, one on a five metre female and the other on a five meter male…”

• Ndesanjo Macha

7 March 2011

English

KonWomyn asks, “Is a protest in Djibouti a protest in the Arab World?”: Djibouti may be an East African country with much stronger ties to the African countries on The Horn than Egypt or Palestine, but it is no less a part of The Arab World Revolutions.

• Ndesanjo Macha

3 March 2011

English

Some African leaders do not want citizens to know what is happening in North Africa and Middle East: “As news of Middle Eastern and North African protests swirl around the globe, satellite television and the Internet prove vital sources of information for Africans as governments fearful of an informed citizenry and a free press such as in Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, and Zimbabwe impose total news blackouts on the developments.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

12 November 2010

English

Djiboutilicious is a Djibouti Cookbook celebrating culture and cooking in a country as hot as your oven.

• Ndesanjo Macha

English

James Ferguson blogs about his experience while working in Djibouti: “‘The Beverley' is a place which is a very tiny elevator ride four floors above some kind of eatery, or convenience store, or pharmacy - I'm not sure which - that has very mysteriously, and misleadingly, borrowed it's name and logos from ‘Planet Hollywood'.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

4 October 2010

English

Moroccan blogger Jamal Elabiad asks what education in Morocco and in Djibouti have in common.

• Jillian C. York

11 May 2010

English

A blogger based in Djibouti writes about food insecurity in the country: “Food instability is about to hit Djibouti. The rainy season ends in a month and there hasn’t been much rain this year. Meaning, an estimated 120,000 people will need food assistance through December. Meanwhile the lazy overweight woman that eats all day long (aka Gilligan) is joking about starving Africans and complaining she has to walk 100yards to get her food since the place next door is closed.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

26 April 2007

Updates

African journalists working in France are calling on the two remaining French presidential candidates, Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal, to begin a new chapter in Franco-African relations (Fr), according to the blog of the Alliance for Democratic Progress. “We have to reconsider everything, make a fresh start, a sort of “big bang,” so that France stops treating us like children. Africa must be a partner.” (Fr)

• Jennifer Brea

18 April 2007

Updates

French Congolese poet Alain Mabanckou posts some reflections by Abdourahman Waberi (Fr), a French Djiboutian writer, on the upcoming French presidential elections. Waberi had thought France had “finally woken up” to the concerns of its non-white citizens, but that from the banlieues to the overseas departments rage and resentment remain unadressed. “It is not surprising that many of the inhabitants of these places consider themselves (post)colonial subjects, culturally “Frenchified,” but oppressed by the dominant French culture,” Waberi says. “The risk of a war of memory is more real than ever. The body politic seems to be breaking into pieces: memory of those repatriated in Africa, memory of the loyalist Algerian soldier, memory of the Holocaust, memory of the sons and daughters of the descendants of slaves. A litany of past crimes.”

• Jennifer Brea

28 September 2006

Updates

Africa Unchained writes, “Karekezi, S…surveys (PDF) the dissemination of renewable technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa…and attempts to evaluate the potential for these technologies to meet the energy needs of Africa’s poor…“

• Ndesanjo Macha

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