Meet the Beauty Queen Who Inspired #MeToo in Gambia
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-19
| In Gambia, an ongoing public truth and reconciliation commission is investigating the atrocities of former President Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the West African country of 2 million people for 22 years before his regime ended in 2016. In widely shared public testimony that has been live-streamed to tens of thousands of people, survivors and members of Jammeh's death squad who killed migrants, journalists and civilians during the president's reign are telling their stories for the world to hear. One such survivor is F…
truthout.org/video/meet-the-beauty-queen-who-inspired-metoo-in-gambia/

Massive Loss of Life, Genocide Warnings in Three African Countries
J. B. Gerald | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
These genocide warnings concern current threats to the peoples of Cameroon1, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burundi. Beyond the primary concern for all the people in national groups, a pattern is emerging globally which should remind North Americans …
globalresearch.ca/genocide-warnings-three-african-states/5689636

Chelsea Handler's new Netflix white privilege documentary misses the mark
Michelle Zacarias | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-19
Editor's note: Spoilers ahead. What happens when a wildly successful rich white woman comedian realizes she's had access to immeasurable opportunities throughout her life? She makes a documentary centering herself. Chelsea Handler's newest Netflix documentary, Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea, does exactly that. Almost five years after publishing a book distastefully titled Uganda Be Kidding …
peoplesworld.org/article/chelsea-handlers-new-netflix-white-privilege-documentary-misses-the-mark/

Mass protests erupt against Algerian army's call for December elections
wsws.org | 2019-09-19
Protesters demanded no election take place as long as stooges of the ousted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika remain in power.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/19/alge-s19.html

Stunning discovery of pre-human fossil skull in Ethiopia
wsws.org | 2019-09-19
As a near complete skull 3.8 million years old, the find opens the road to future research that will allow scientists to look back to more primitive species, while being able to reassess the transition to true humans.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/19/homo-s19.html

Video: Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie explains the significance of the discovery
wsws.org | 2019-09-19
The video shows the area in Ethiopia where the human-like skull of Australopithecus anamensis, known as MRD, was found and explains its significance.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/19/vide-s19.html

Tunisia's Ousted President Ben Ali Dies in Saudi Exile
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-19
Tunisia's ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali died in exile in Saudi Arabia Thursday, days after a free presidential election in his homeland, his family lawyer said. | "Ben Ali just died in Saudi Arabia," the lawyer, Mounir Ben Salha, told Reuters by phone. | Ben Ali fled Tunisia in January 2011 as his compatriots rose up against his oppressive rule in a revolution that inspired other Arab Spring uprisings abroad and led to a democratic transition at home. | On Sunday, Tunisians voted in an election that featured candidates from across the political spectrum, sending two political outsiders through to a…
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Meet the Beauty Queen Who Inspired Gambia's Me Too Movement After Accusing Ex-Dictator of Rape
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-19
In Gambia, an ongoing public truth and reconciliation commission is investigating the atrocities of former President Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the West African country of 2 million people for 22 years before his regime ended in 2016. In widely shared public testimony that has been live-streamed to tens of thousands of people, survivors and members of Jammeh's death squad who killed migrants, journalists and civilians during the president's reign are telling their stories for the world to hear. One such survivor is Fatou "Toufah" Jallow, who says the former president raped her in 2015. We speak with Jallow, a Gambia…
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/19/gambia_truth_reconciliation_commission_atrocities

30,000 Children Risk Sexual Abuse After Mozambique Cyclones: UN
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-18
Tens of thousands of children are at risk of abuse and exploitation in Mozambique six months after the country was devastated by Cyclone Idai, World Vision warned Tuesday. | RELATED: | 24 Million Children Living in Warzones Need Mental Health Help | As the southern African country is still struggling to recover from Cyclones Idai and Kenneth that hit in March and April, more than 60,000 people, 30,000 of them children, are living in resettlement camps after their homes were de…
telesurenglish.net/news/30000-Children-Risk-Sexual-Abuse-After-Mozambique-Cyclones-20190918-0016.html

Rwandan Hutu Militia Commander Killed in Congo, Army Says
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-18
The Democratic Republic of Congo's army said on Wednesday that it had killed Sylvestre Mudacumura, the commander of a Rwandan Hutu militia who is wanted by the International Criminal Court. | RELATED: | Rwanda to Take in Refugees Trapped in Libya's Detention Centers | The FDLR has waged periodic war with the Congolese government and rival militias, and Rwanda's government has cited its presence on Congolese soil to justify repeated interventions across the border. | "Sylvestre…
telesurenglish.net/news/Rwandan-Hutu-Militia-Commander-Killed-in-Congo-Army-Says-20190918-0021.html

Historian calls out media for failing to question UK's 'ever-growing' links with repressive regime
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-09-18
On 17 September, historian Mark Curtis slammed the media for failing to hold the British government to account over its increasing links with Egypt's repressive elitist regime. Tweeting a screenshot of a recent government announcement, he said: | UK has an "ever growing economic partnership"
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2019/09/18/historian-calls-out-media-for-failing-to-question-uks-ever-growing-links-with-repressive-regime/

Saudi — UAE Split on Yemen Not What it Appears to Be
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-18
Antony Loewenstein parses the fog around UAE & Saudis in Yemen, how it is connected to the chaos in Libya, the drone attack, and wider chaos of the Middle East…
therealnews.com/stories/saudi-uae-split-on-yemen-not-what-it-appears-to-be

South Sudan's peace process 'precarious, but progress in being made', Security Council hears
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-18
One year on from the signing of a Revitalized Agreement to ease conflict in South Sudan, the country's political leaders "have met some, but certainly not all", of the expectations laid out, the top UN official for the country told the Security Council on Wednesday.
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Wednesday's Daily Brief: 'Ambition and action', key to UNGA, South Sudan, Cameroon peace process updates
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-18
A recap of Wednesday's top stories: Guterres previews next week's summit agenda; UN and Red Cross appeal to eliminate urban warfare; South Sudan's one-year peace progress report; Cameroon renews call for 'durable peace'; Cities both helping and hurting, when it comes to climate change action.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1046722

One million facing food shortages, nutrition crisis after Mozambique cyclones: UNICEF
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-16
Such was the extent of devastation caused by two back-to-back cyclones in Mozambique earlier this year, nearly one million people, including 160,000 children under five, are still facing food shortages and a nutrition crisis, the UN children's agency, UNICEF, said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1046522

Monday's Daily Brief: Ozone layer heals, 'regional conflagration' risk rises over oilfield attacks, South Sudan update, Myanmar genocide threat remains
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-16
A recap of Monday's top stories: The ozone layer is on track to repair; Instability rises over oilfield attacks in Saudi Arabia; General Assembly chief Espinosa bows out; Disaster and conflict displace thousands in Asia Pacific; Sexual violence unpunished in South Sudan; Genocide threat remains for Rohingya.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1046502

How to find a Tiger in Africa
T.P. Wilkinson | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-14
Agostinho Neto declaring independence of Angola 11 November 1975 What I want to do here is something very simple. I want to explain how I began to search for Agostinho Neto. I also want to explain the perspective that shapes this search.1 When I was told about the plans for a colloquium I was asked …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/how-to-find-a-tiger-in-africa/

"Racism in America Is Endemic": Democratic Candidates Vow to Confront White Supremacy & Legacy of Slavery
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-13
During the third Democratic debate Thursday night, the discussion of race and racism got personal for former HUD Secretary Julián Castro, who brought up last month's El Paso massacre. He said the white gunman who killed 22 people, mostly Latinos, had driven to the border city "to kill people who look like me." Former Texas Congressmember Beto O'Rourke, who is from El Paso, said racism is endemic and foundational of the United States. He mentioned that this year will mark the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved African being brought to America, and promised he would create a slavery reparations commission.
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/13/democratic_debate_white_supremacy_racism

Pacbi Welcomes Statement by More Than 500 Filmmakers Against "Close Up" Initiative Normalizing Israeli Apartheid
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-08-28
Pacbi Welcomes Statement by More Than 500 Filmmakers Against "Close Up" Initiative Normalizing Israeli Apartheid: UpdateFilmmakers denounce "Close up," a new documentary film project that aims to normalize relations with Israel as if it were a normal state, not a regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. | Cultural BoycottAugust 28, 2019 | B…
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Israeli Filmmakers Letter on Greenhouse Project
PACBI | bdsmovement.net | 2019-08-26
Israeli Filmmakers Letter on Greenhouse Project: In the NewsLeonidas Kioussis | Catherine COLOMB-NANCY | (EuropeAid Co-Operation Office of the European Commission) | Rosamaria Gili | (European Commission Delegation in Morocco) Cultural BoycottFebruary 16, 2006 | By: | | Israeli filmmakers, producers, scholars and artists …
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