Sokari Ekine

A water crisis is emerging in the Nile Basin where some 300 million people in Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi rely on the Nile indirectly and directly along its 6,741-kilometre stretch.

Finally it has arrived – World Cup 2010, after months of debate in the international and South African media on the pros and cons of the tournament being held in South Africa. The games kicked off on Friday with the host country drawing with Mexico.

Two stories have dominated Africa this week – the pardoning of Malawian couple, Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga who were sentenced to 14 years hard labour for loving each other and Africa Liberation Day – May 25th.

An interesting story from The Haitian Blogger.

I read an article from the online site Mobile Behaviour a few weeks ago in which the author made the very obvious observation ‘mobility connects one person to another’.

More than three months has passed since the Haitian earthquake, dignitaries have come, had their photo shots with a few chosen survivors, held babies in their arms, given speeches on the resilience of the Haitian people and lots of promises then returned to their mansions and lives of excess.

Two weeks ago the Zimbabwean Prime Minister and MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai announced his support of President Robert Mugabe’s refusal to include LGBTI rights in the new Zimbabwean constitution. However Tsvangirai’s statement contradicts the official position of the MDC party, which states:

PAMBAZUKA NEWS: Sokari, the study of ‘mobile technology for development’ has become a new fad in the development world. But is ‘SMS Uprising’ different? And why is it an important book?

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/475/blog/march24_01_africa_is…Africa is a Country

Nigeria continues to dominate the headlines between the three month-old saga of the invisible president to this week’s renewed religious/ethnic violence in Plateau State. Despite his return to Nigeria two weeks ago, no one has yet seen the president – or if they have, they are not saying.