An ode in memory of Chimusoro Sam Moyo
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/11/an-ode-in-memory-of-chimusoro-sam-moyo
An unimaginable loss has happened. Our phenomenal intellectual pan-African giant on land issues, Professor Sam Moyo, has died following injuries sustained during a terrible car accident in New Delhi, India......
Pourrir sa vie : Zimbabwe Police Arrest Cecil The Lion’s Hunter Over Smuggling Illegal Sable Exports - Animal Lovers Continue to Protest Outside Of Walter Palmer’s Dental Clinic - via FB
▻http://vbetweenthelines.com/index.php/2015/09/15/breaking-news-zimbabwe-police-arrest-cecil-the-lions-hunter-over-s
▻https://cecilspride.wordpress.com/2015/09/13/animal-lovers-continue-to-protest-outside-of-walter-palmers-d
#lion #killer #Afrique #pollueur
Mentionné dans : Les amandes à l’amende = ►http://oxymoron-fractal.blogspot.fr/2015/09/les-amandes-lamende.html
#Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s white ally in land grab row
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/25281-zimbabwe-mugabe-s-white-ally-in-land-grab-row
Black peasant farmers in Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands have accused controversial white Zimbabwean businessperson Billy Rautenbach of forcing them off their land and destroying their livelihoods through a $600-million ethanol plant that enjoys extensive government support.
They are also complaining that Rautenbach did not honour an offer to set them up as sugar cane growers to feed the factory.
Rautenbach has already taken 9 400 hectares from local farmers, uprooting more than 1 700 households with an estimated 10 000 members. But he says he will need 45 000 hectares for cane production when the factory is at full capacity, suggesting that the land grab will continue.
Government backing for the plant, which includes legislation giving Rautenbach a production monopoly, represents an ironic reversal of Zanu-PF’s proclaimed land reform policy, which is supposedly intended to benefit small black farmers.
Rautenbach’s fast and furious rise to riches in South Africa and other African countries has frequently stirred controversy (see “Billy Rautenbach’s disingenuous and slippery story” below). He is alleged to have profited from Zimbabwe’s military adventure in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1998 and to have donated generously to Zanu-PF’s election coffers. His close relationship with the ruling party saw him added to the list of individuals on the European Union’s targeted sanctions against the Zimbabwean elite.
Large scale land deals in Southern Africa: voices of the people
▻http://www.future-agricultures.org/publications/research-and-analysis/books/1972-large-scale-land-deals-in-southern-africa-voices-of-the-pe
This book presents case studies of large-scale land deals in Southern Africa. It aims to provide an accessible and vivid window into the lived realities and responses of rural people who are affected by such deals. For this reason, we have paid particular attention to what local people say, and have quoted their experiences and responses to the land deals.
largescale500The book emerges from an action research project implemented by the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, in partnership with non-governmental organisations in five Southern African countries: LandNet in Malawi, Kuwuka Juventude Desenvolvimento e Advocacia Ambiental in Mozambique, Legal Assistance Centre in Namibia, Zambia Land Alliance in Zambia and Ruzivo Trust in Zimbabwe.
▻http://www.plaas.org.za/sites/default/files/publications-pdf/Large%20scale%20land%20deals.pdf
Médias. La Mafia en Afrique : une enquête transnationale | Courrier international
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/medias-la-mafia-en-afrique-une-enquete-transnationale
Le site allemand Correctiv publie une grande enquête en six volets sur l’infiltration des mafias italiennes dans l’économie africaine, fruit d’une collaboration transnationale entre des journalistes italiens et africains. Courrier international a interviewé d’eux d’entre eux.
L’enquête “Comment la mafia sicilienne s’est infiltrée en Afrique du Sud” que nous publions cette semaine est l’un des six volets d’une série d’articles consacrés aux différentes mafias italiennes en Afrique. Publiés sur le site de Correctiv, webzine allemand à but non lucratif, ces six longs formats emmènent les lecteurs du Kenya au Zimbabwe en passant par l’Afrique du Sud. Elles ont été coordonnées par le centre italien de journalisme d’investigation Irpi (Investigate Reporting Project Italy) et réalisées en coordination avec l’Ancir (African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting). Elles sont le résultat d’une collaboration transnationale entre des journalistes italiens, sud-africains, namibiens et anglais. Courier international a interviewé Cecilia Anesi et Giulio Rubino, les deux journalistes italiens à l’origine de cette série d’enquêtes.
Mafia in Africa
▻https://correctiv.org/en/investigations/mafia-africa
The Italian mafia has established a hidden but lethal presence in Africa. Its members own diamond mines, nightclubs and land, all with the complicity of corrupt regimes.
Italian anti-Mafia authorities estimate that organised crime groups earn €26 billion a year in Italy alone. But the figure only scratches the surface of its economic power. Mafia Inc. is more than ever a global business, infiltrating legitimate economies worldwide. And the extent of the empire is unknown.
An international team of reporters from the non-profit investigative journalism centres IRPI and ANCIR (with the Investigative Dashboard Africa) partnered with the data analysts of QUATTROGATTI and the production room of CORRECT!V to uncover for the first time the Italian Mafia’s grip on Africa.
The lions and the hunters
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/08/the-lions-and-the-hunters
“Denys and Kanuthia pulled up their sleeves and while the sun rose they skinned the lions. When they took a rest we had a bottle of claret and raisins and.....
#FRONT_PAGE #Big_Game_Hunters #Nature #race #social_media #The_Internet #Zimbabwe
Jimmy Kimmel’s Emotional Response to the Killing of Cecil The Lion
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/jimmy-kimmels-emotional-response-to-the-killing-of-cecil-the-lion
Late night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel got choked up Tuesday night as he summed up all the things wrong with Cecil the lion’s murder in Zimbabwe earlier this month.
Kimmel recounts the disgusting...
ZANZIBAR NI KWETU: Bagamoyo port in pipeline
▻http://zanzibarnikwetu.blogspot.fr/2015/07/bagamoyo-port-in-pipeline.html
According to the Tanzania’s Ambassador to China Philip Marmo, upon completion, Bagamoyo port will have the capacity to handle 20 million containers annually as opposed to Dar port with the capacity of 800,000 containers.
The much awaited project will also entail the construction of a 34 kilometre road connecting the district and Mlandizi and also a 65 kilometres railway connecting Bagamoyo to the Tanzania-Zambia Railway (TAZARA) and Central Railway line.
“We will be building a fourth generation port of high standard. This port will also facilitate China-bound shipments of minerals from Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Tanzania and then to China via the Indian Ocean.
#AFRICA_IS_A_RADIO : Season 2, Episode 3
▻http://africasacountry.com/africa-is-a-radio-season-2-episode-3
Xenophobia, #migration, and today’s Elections in the UK are the topics of discussion this week on Africa is a Radio. Special guest Musa Okwonga joins hosts Sean Jacobs and Elliot.....
#Angola #Europe #immigrants #Nigeria #Politics #South_Africa #UK_Elections #xenophobia #Zimbabwe
Hospitals as debtor prisons - The Lancet Global Health
▻http://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(15)70073-2/fulltext
In low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), systematic research regarding the prevalence and personal consequences of patients who are unable to pay their medical bills has been scarce. However, news headlines frequently tell a simple story of detention—eg, “Kenyan mothers too poor to pay for treatment locked up in hospital”.1 Similar reports are found in Burundi,2 Ghana,3 India,4 Liberia,5 Nigeria,6 the Philippines,7 and Zimbabwe.8
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The detention of patients by health facilities can be seen as a direct consequence of the imposition of user fees and and inadequate social welfare protections.
dommage que l’article n’évoque pas une autre variable d’ajustement, qui pourrait être le coût des traitements
Fresh Eyes: #KB_Mpofu’s moments of intimacy
▻http://africasacountry.com/fresh-eyes-kb-mpofus-moments-of-intimacy
We head to #Zimbabwe for the continuation of our Fresh Eyes series. Based in Bulawayo, KB Mpofu is a self-taught photographer who shoots #Portraits, fashion editorials and NGO work. With.....
Land Seizures Speeding Up, Leaving Africans Homeless and Landless | Inter Press Service
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/04/land-seizures-speeding-up-leaving-africans-homeless-and-landless
There is a new scramble for Africa, with ordinary people facing displacement by the affluent and the powerful as huge tracts of land on the continent are grabbed by a minority, rights activists here say.
“Our forefathers cried foul during colonialism when their land was grabbed by colonialists more than a century ago, but today history repeats itself, with our own political leaders and wealthy countrymen looting land,” Claris Madhuku, director of the Platform for Youth Development (PYD), a democracy lobby group in Zimbabwe, told IPS.
Civil society activist Owen Dliwayo, who is programme officer for the Youth Dialogue Action Network, another lobby group here, said multinational companies were to blame in most African countries for land seizures.
#terres #évictions_forcées #Afrique merci @fil
#Zimbabwe A to Z
▻http://africasacountry.com/zimbabwe-a-to-z
A is for Amai. Higher than “Queen”, “Tsar”, or any colonial and western title, this is the most eminent and coveted designation in the land. B is for Baba Jukwa......
#RhodesMustFall : The View from #Zimbabwe
▻http://africasacountry.com/rhodesmustfall-the-view-from-zimbabwe
Cecil John Rhodes couldn’t have imagined, when he was setting up the template for Apartheid and furthering British imperialism in Africa over a century ago, that one day a statue.....
#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #colonialism #EDITORIAL #John_Cecil_Rhodes #POLITICS #South_Africa
Envoi de cinq cent militaires zambien pour le maintien de la paix en Centrafrique
▻http://grigrinews.com/envoi-de-cinq-cent-militaires-zambien-pour-le-maintien-de-la-paix-en-centrafrique/3004
Actualités Afrique « 19/03/2015, Lusaka : La Zambie a annoncé qu’elle allait envoyer 500 militaires pour des opérations de maintien de la paix en République centrafricaine, a déclaré mercredi un officiel. »(c) 2015 - Grigrinews.com
Émeutes sanglantes de la prison de Chikurubi l’opposition réclame une enquête au #Zimbabwe
▻http://grigrinews.com/emeutes-sanglantes-de-la-prison-de-chikurubi-lopposition-reclame-une-enquete-au-zimbabwe/2988
Actualités Afrique « 16/03/2015, Harare, Zimbabwe : Le parti d’opposition zimbabwéen le Mouvement pour le changement démocratique (MDC) a appelé lundi à l’ouverture d’une enquête pour élucider l’émeute dans la plus grande prison du pays à Chikurubi ayant fait au moins dix victimes parmi les détenus. »(c) 2015 - Grigrinews.com
Immigration : le #Zimbabwe expulse cent soixante dix neuf éthiopiens
▻http://grigrinews.com/immigration-le-zimbabwe-expulse-cent-soixante-dix-neuf-ethiopiens/2862
Actualités Afrique « 25/02/2015, Harare : Le Zimbabwe a déporté 179 Éthiopiens entrés illégalement dans le pays en octobre dernier, a rapporté mercredi le média national. »(c) 2015 - Grigrinews.com
Trente éléphants seront tués pour l’anniversaire de Robert Mugabe au #Zimbabwe !
▻http://grigrinews.com/trente-elephants-seront-tues-pour-anniversaire-de-robert-mugabe-au-zimbabwe/2815
« 19/02/2015, Harare, Zimbabwe : Le président du Zimbabwe voit décidément les choses en grand. Après s’être offert 90 vaches pour son 90e anniversaire l’an dernier, Robert Mugabe envisage de tuer une trentaine de pachydermes pour son festin d’anniversaire cette année. »
La Chine fabrique des éléphants maintenant ?
▻http://www.brujitafr.fr/2015/02/la-chine-fabrique-des-elephants-maintenant.html
Pour ses 91 ans, Robert Mugabe mangera des éléphants
Pour son 91e anniversaire, le président du Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe a vu les choses en grand : cette année, il a invité pas moins de 20.000 personnes à festoyer le 28 février prochain dans un hôtel spa luxueux situé non loin des chutes Victoria. Au menu notamment : deux éléphants, deux buffles, cinq impalas et un lion, pour la somme de 78.000 livres, soit 105.000 euros, révèle le quotidien britannique The Guardian. Ces animaux seront offerts par un fermier local, et viendront s’ajouter aux 27 éléphants qui devrait arriver tout droit de Chine pour l’occasion.
Ce n’est pas la première fois que Robert Mugabe, qui dirige le Zimbabwe d’une main de fer depuis l’indépendance en 1980, organise une fête gargantuesque pour son anniversaire, (...)
Zimbabwe’s Famed Forests Could Soon Be Desert | Inter Press Service
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/02/zimbabwes-famed-forests-could-soon-be-desert
Zimbabwe currently has 88,167 tobacco growers, whom environmental activists say are the catalysts of looming desertification here.
“Curing tobacco using huge quantities of firewood and even increased domestic use of firewood in both rural and urban areas will leave Zimbabwe without forests and one has to imagine how the country would look like after the demise of the forests,” Thabilise Mlotshwa, an ecologist from Save the Environment Association, an environmental lobby group here, told IPS.
“But really, it is difficult to object to firewood use when this is the only energy source most rural people have despite the environment being the worst casualty,” Mlotshwa added.
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#deforestation is primarily caused by the activities of the general population. As the Zimbabwe economy plummets, indigenous timber merchants are on the rise, battling to eke a living, with environmentalists accusing them of fuelling deforestation.
For many rural dwellers, lack of electricity in most rural areas is creating unsustainable pressures on forests in Zimbabwe
Construction de la nouvelle capitale en deux mille dix sept au #Zimbabwe
▻http://grigrinews.com/construction-de-la-nouvelle-capitale-en-deux-mille-dix-sept-au-zimbabwe/2679
« 08/02/2015, Harare, Zimbabwe : Les travaux de construction de la nouvelle capitale du Zimbabwe devraient commencer avant la fin de 2017, à la suite de la récente approbation du par le gouvernement, ont annoncé les médias d’état, ce dimanche. »
On the Road to Ending #HIV
Heavy trucks pass through the Chirundu Corridor, one of the major routes connecting Zimbabwe and Zambia in southern Africa. This is a vital transport artery, important for the economies of both countries and their neighbors. It is also a major route for the transmission of HIV.
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alice-ouedraogo/on-the-road-to-ending-hiv_b_6547580.html
#SIDA
Map: 113 countries have higher measles immunization rates than the U.S. for 1-year-olds
What do Libya, Russia, China, Zimbabwe and Iran have in common?
According to the World Health Organization, they have a higher measles immunization coverage among 1-year-olds than the United States. And, as this interactive map shows, they are far from alone.
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/02/03/map-113-countries-have-higher-measles-immunization-rates-than-the-u-
#carte #cartographie #visualisation #vaccination
Élection du président Mugabé à la tête de l’Union Africaine
▻http://grigrinews.com/election-du-president-mugabe-a-la-tete-de-lunion-africaine/2615
"01/02/2015, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire : Le Forum des souverains et leaders traditionnels d’Afrique a salué, dimanche, l’élection du Président Zimbabwéen, Robert Mugabé à la tête de l’Union africaine, estimant que « ce qu’on lui reproche peut se discuter ».
Many Terence Rangers
▻http://africasacountry.com/many-terence-rangers
This is not an obituary of Terence Ranger; I am not qualified to write it. Nor is this a journal article; there are already a good number and there will.....