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March 24th, 2008

World Water Day Ripples Across Videos.

Juliana Rincón Parra · 22:42

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Every year since the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, on March 22nd has been the World Water Day. In addition, this year it is the United Nation´s International Year of Sanitation and people from all over have started taking action through their video cameras, raising awareness at the importance of this finite resource. 0 comments · »»

January 25th, 2008

Burkina Faso: Rites, festivals and a new book

John Liebhardt · 13:09

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Like anywhere else in the world, there is a season to everything in Burkina Faso: rites of passage, camel and horse racing, literature and death. 0 comments · »»

July 21st, 2006

French-Speaking Bloggers on Rabat Conference on Migration

Alice Backer · 09:07

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 problèmes des migrations entre ces deux continents.Elle a regroupé 57 pays africains et européens et certaines organisations humanitaires qui se ... 2 comments · »»

July 2nd, 2006

Africa: Is Homosexuality a Religion?

Alice Backer · 23:56

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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 mentioned recent "outings" of public figures. A debate ensued that involved Martinique's lesbian blogger Le Blog de [Moi] who'd ... 4 comments · »»

June 28th, 2006

Why No Mention of Slavery in African and Haitian Fiction?

Alice Backer · 21:40

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 blog entry. He deplores that African fiction does not count more passages on the different waves of slavery that have ... 2 comments · »»

June 4th, 2006

Latest in the Francophone African Blogosphere

Alice Backer · 23:47

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 African country: Je suis pour des Etats-Unis d’Afrique par zone géographique ou linguistique, car cela va permettre d’impliquer l’ensemble des Africains dans la ... 0 comments · »»

May 14th, 2006

France & Francophonia Commemorate Slavery Amidst Curriculum Controversy

Alice Backer · 23:59

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 invite les Français à « regarder tout notre passé en face », « sans concession ». ... 2 comments · »»

May 7th, 2006

African Diaspora: Hard times for Africans in France and Belgium

Anthony Katombe · 20:52

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 sees Sarkozy’s approach as a diversion from the real social issues raised by protestors of the CPE [Youth Employment ... 7 comments · »»

Links about Niger

July 28th, 2008

The blog Hausa Online reports that a few days ago a proposal had been made in Wikipedia's discussion pages to delete the Wikipedia in Hausa language, an African Chadic language spoken by more than 24 million people. This comes a few months after the blog Beyond Niamey expressed his concern over another closure proposal, the one to close the Wikipedia in Xhosa.

January 7th, 2008

Ghasbouba, from Morocco, writes about the Touareg struggle for liberation in Niger and Mali.

October 3rd, 2007

Ishtar warns us, “Niger is drying up“: The seasonal rivers are a thing of the past, but the seasonal “tapki” lakes will be around for good couple of months. Under the scorching sun, I was really tempted to take a dip in the water, until I saw that the color was black - not transparent as I first thought…

September 12th, 2007

The Yellowcake Conspiracy is an African spy thriller for 11 to 14 year-old boys: “The Yellowcake Conspiracy is about a group of malcontent Tuareg fighters mounting a 'second rebellion' in Niger under the leadership of a man known only as ‘the Teacher' (the first rebellion ended back in 1995).”

September 4th, 2007

The blog of Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la justice, a tuareg rebel group in Niger, writes that the retreating government army killed several civilians (Fr) during a recent fight. MNJ calls the government's actions “vengeance upon the innocent.”

May 28th, 2007

“Earlier this year, I mentioned the emergence of a new rebel movement among the Touareg minority in northern Niger. Since then, the Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice (MNJ) has stepped up its activity, claiming responsibility for a pitched battle with government troops in March and a recent attack on a uranium exploration team,” writes The Head Heeb.

April 26th, 2007

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)

In Niger, violent protests by students (Fr) continued at the University of Niamey. The students are demanding (En) striking primary and secondary school teachers return to work. Nigerien civil society has meanwhile announced its support for the students‘ “fight for the improvement of their living and working conditions” (Fr)