"A profound humanitarian crisis is occurring in Sudan, characterized by ethnic cleansing, mass displacement, food scarcity and the spread of disease, complicated further by flooding in the northern states."
#Sudan #Africa #CivilWar #Floods #EtgnicCleansing #Emergency
Russia is holding a BRICS meeting with surprise visitors El Sisi of #Egypt and so called president of #Palestine Mohamed Abbas. Even #Turkey and #NorthKorea have sent delegates to the meeting and several African nations have also shown interest in joining the system. It is unclear if they announce any new members after this meeting, but it sure going to have a major impact on #dedolirization of the world economy.
The criminal reaction of Europe and US to freeze and confiscate assets of Russian citizens, not just state funds have woken up the world that they can't trust the west following their own rules and relying on them is nothing but a false feeling of safety.
One can cruise the origin of those frozen assets, but they are not much different than most of the wealth of criminal leaders of various countries who live a safe and protected life in #Europe and #US.
Album: Zion Roots, 2003
The Heart of the Matter
#AbyssiniaInfinite #EjigayehuGigiShibabaw #Gigi #worldmusic #africa #ethiopia #music
Album: Afro Swing, 1999
The Heart of the Matter
#MomoWandelSoumah #worldmusic #Guinea #africa #sax #music
Speaking of Desert Blues...
This was a surprise, and joy to see last night, on our PBS (public/educational) TV News Hour. Half listening to news headlines, this story came on and instantly caught my ear, and the rest of me followed. An amazing portrait of a musical prodigy with a unique talent and also a desire to share his perspective, on politics, guitar legends and life, all part of the same ocean....
Fascinating individual, talent, perspective....
#MdouMoctar #music #prodigy #Sahara #SaharaBlues #musica #musique #musik #Africa
album: Raoui, 2001
The Heart of the Matter
#SouadMassi #worldmusic #africa #algeria #music
Situation in #Mali: Counter-Terrorism Operation in the North and Clashes in the Center of the Country
Summary for August 1 - 21, 2024
After strikes on Tin-Zaouaten, patrols in the surrounding areas have also become more active. The Malian army, supported by the Wagner PMC, conducted raids in some villages, where they found informants of militants and weapons. After reconnaissance, the convoys returned with prisoners.
▪️The center of the country - the Mopti region - is also restless. Along the "road of death" from Douentza to Gossi, there have been continued explosions targeting government forces' vehicles. Also, in the vicinity, an army convoy that was heading to Dialassagou was ambushed by #Islamists. 15 soldiers were #killed in the ambush.
▪️Reconnaissance is being conducted along the Mauritanian border to identify and eliminate militant cells. But the territory of Mauritania was again used by militants from the Al-Qaeda-affiliated group JNIM as a rear base for raids into Malian territory. Along the border, they attacked two army posts, from which the soldiers fled, leaving their weapons behind.
🔻All this once again underscores the problems of the Malian armed forces. Of course, the government is increasing the number of personnel, but due to the lack of officers, the effectiveness of the reinforcements is extremely low.
This problem directly affects our interests in the country. So, during a telephone conversation between the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Mali, Lavrov stated that Russian structures are ready to help improve the combat capability of the army. Most likely, this implies the deployment of the African Corps, which has been expected in the country for more than a month.
Despite massive sexist and racist attacks against her, she won the gold medal at Olympics.
Congratulations to her for not giving up and showing the world how strong women fight back against bigotry and hate.
PS. I don't see any of those vocal "woman-life-freedom" folk posting anything in support of her.
#Algeria #Olympics #Racism #Sexism #WomenRights #Africa #Paris2024
Album: The Gamba: Salam - New Kora Music, 1994
The Heart of the Matter
#TataDindin #worldmusic #africa #Gambia #kora #music
The Continent is a weekly newspaper produced by African reporters, photographers, illustrators and editors. It is designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp, Telegram channel, Signal or e-mail, and has become the continent’s most widely distributed newspaper.
It is designed to be read on a mobile screen, with mostly short news pieces of 250 to 400 words, and a few longer pieces of about 900 words. Editions are sent out as a PDF on Fridays.
Led by a small team of nine (all working remotely) and having published contributions from nearly 200 journalists, writers, photographers and illustrators from across Africa in the past year, The Continent has covered numerous important and urgent stories, starting with reliable information from African researchers and public health experts on the Covid-19 pandemic, and on to other ground-breaking reporting: the injustice of “vaccine apartheid” with rich countries hoarding Covid-19 vaccines; the impact of Nigeria’s sudden and dramatic Twitter ban (applauded by none other than Donald Trump); a tender photo essay on being queer in Uganda, in a country where it is dangerous to be LGBTQ.
The Continent is published by the All Protocol Observed, a registered non-profit based in South Africa. It was initially funded by the editorial team, but has since attracted donor and commercial funding. So a refreshing difference is no adverts and also no tracking. You receive the PDF weekly via your channel of choice (or you can just download it from their website), and you can reshare this with anyone you wish to.
Credit to Jan Wildeboer @Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: for sharing this on the Fediverse.
See thecontinent.org/
#Blog, #africa, #journalism, #news, #TheContinent
Album: In The Heart Of The Moon, 2004
Recorded at Hotel Mandé, Bamako, Mali, July 2004.
The Heart of the Matter
#AliFarkaTouré #ToumaniDiabeté #worldmusic #africa #mali #kora #music
#SylviaMoore #worldmusic #africa #southAfrica #music
Mouth organ accompaniment by Bernard Broere.
♲ DoomsdaysCW - 2024-07-11 19:31:16 GMT
EU climate service: Earth records 12 straight months of record high temperaturesBy Clyde Hughes, UPI
July 8 (UPI) -- "June 2024 was hotter than any June previously on record, leaving people exposed to life-threatening temperatures and more extreme weather, the European Union's #Copernicus #ClimateChange Service said Monday.
"Copernicus researchers found that temperatures worldwide each month for the past 12 months were 1.5 degrees Celsius greater than the average before the #preindustrial age.
"The report said temperatures in Europe were higher on average than in the southeast regions. It added the countries and regions with the hottest temperatures outside of #Europe were eastern #Canada, the western #UnitedStates, western #Mexico, #Brazil, northern #Siberia, the #MiddleEast, northern #Africa, and western #Antarctica.
"'Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm,' said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, according to The Guardian.
"'This is inevitable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans.'
"The report said its review of the oceans, air temperatures were higher than average in the #AtlanticOcean and #IndianOcean along with most of the #PacificOcean. Temperatures were below average in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and smaller regions around the world, like the Bering Sea.
"Copernicus uses measurements from various sources, including airplanes, weather stations, ships and satellites to capture vital climate information worldwide.
"'This is not good news at all,' said Aditi Mukherji, the co-author of the newest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 'We know that extreme events increase with every increment of global warming and at 1.5 degrees Celsius, we witnessed some of the hottest extremes this year.'"
#ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCatastrophe
Sounds a lot like what I hear from native communities downstream of the Alberta oilsands
https://globalvoices.org/2024/07/06/uk-diamond-company-that-won-water-and-climate-awards-has-been-linked-to-water-pollution-in-lesotho/ #greenwashing #contamination #mining #Africa
The Great Green Wall in #Africa is an amazing initiative aimed at stopping the #Sahara #Desert spreading south into the #Sahel region. There's great cooperation between the #UN and local communities, combining indigenous knowledge with modern agronomy. Here's a report on one such project in #Senegal.
