In English_
- There is a gold rush in Eritrea:
But among the stories of the mining boom in Eritrea and the mining companies’ stocks going up and down, the dirtiest secret that has remained untold is the extensive use of slave labor in these mining projects.
- Unlike many think, piracy in Somalia looks pretty much like any other ‘business’, pirates themselves are just the cheap labour force that’s trying to save some money and move to doing something else:
Piracy has become a sophisticated business. Pirates say the operations are now run by a small group of warlords and financiers based around the world. The men who do the dirty work get only a tiny piece of those multimillion-dollar ransoms.
- In the slum of Kibera in Nairobi, a “merry-go-round” microfinance program is keeping some residents fed and allowing them to send their childreen to school.
- ICC’s prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo is finally coming to Kenya to officially launch the investigation on the 2007-2008 post-election violence. Expectations are high among most Kenyans except, maybe, for the very witnesses that are supposed to give evidence:
On top of this they also will be the least likely to be supported by either the ICC’s witness protection programme or the state’s witness protection agency.
Because both programmes are, for obvious reasons of law, most interested in the kinds of witnesses who can connect the dots and establish chain of command for the organised violence and the equally organised counter-attacks.
- Sonangol and the looting of Angola’s oil.
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En español_
- Casa África, una curiosa iniciativa del gobierno español para ‘acercar’ África a España.
- Human Rights Watch denuncia que hasta 50.000 niños en las escuelas coránicas de Senegal viven prácticamente como esclavos:
Muchos de los morabitos en daaras urbanas (profesores de las escuelas coránicas) demandan una cuota diaria a los niños que obligan a pedir limosna, e infringen graves abusos físicos y psicológicos a los que no cumplen con ello. Human Rights Watch documentó numerosos casos de palizas, y varios casos en que niños fueron encadenados, atados, y obligados a ponerse en posiciones de estrés mientras fueron golpeados.
- Hoy se estrena Viaje Mágico a África, la primera película española rodada en 3D.