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The Dutch public broadcaster's Africa service.

October 5

Congo-Kinshasa: Nights in Goma Get Bloody

For the past two weeks, nights in North Kivu's capital have been anything but restful. Armed attacks and murders are terrorizing the DR Congo city. By day, a witch hunt for the... Read more »
Uganda: Ghetto President Talks About Making Them Stand Up

Last week the Uganda Communications Commission pulled a song by Ugandan rapper Bobi Wine from the airwaves. In the track 'Tugabire ka Jennifer', or 'Talk to Jennifer', the... Read more »
Morocco: Dutch Abortion Boat to Arrive Thursday in Morocco

The so-called 'abortion boat' is expected to dock in the Moroccan port of Smir on Thursday at 1 PM local time. Read more »

Cameroon: Yes, Ladies, Mathematicians Get Husbands Too

According to official figures, females represent only 15 percent of the students in scientific fields at Cameroon's tertiary schools and universities. What's more, most of them... Read more »

Zimbabwe: Dutch Farmers Sue Over Land Seizures

A group of Dutch farmers who were forced off their land in Zimbabwe has launched a campaign to force Harare to pay them compensation. Read more »
Africa: Thumbs Up Africa Blog - I Am a Lucky Man [opinion]

Neda Boin (22), Sierd van der Bij (23) and Christiaan Triebert (21) are the lucky Dutch trio who began on 1 October a three-month-long hitchhiking trip from Groningen in the... Read more »
Morocco: Abortion Boat Sets Sail for Morocco

The 'abortion boat' is setting sail for the Arab world for the first time. Dutch organisation Women on Waves is launching a campaign in Morocco this week, in cooperation with local... Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Congolese ICC Witnesses to Set New Asylum Precedent?

A fairly simple-seeming decision taken last week by a Dutch district court may have major consequences on relations between the International Criminal Court, its cooperating... Read more »
Kenya: Africans Going Dutch - Part 45 - the Most Tolerant Dutchman

My Dutch friend drives a Japanese car, eats Italian food, drinks more than ten cups of Kenyan coffee a day and goes to Turkey twice a year on holiday. Given this multicultural... Read more »
Cameroon: Can Facebook Reunite Cameroonian Teen Mom With Her Baby?

Just a little over a year ago, the baby of Vanessa Tchatchou, a Cameroonian 17 year old, disappeared only a few hours after it was born at a public hospital in Yaoundé.... Read more »

Mali: Put Your Questions to the ICC, They Might Be Answered [interview]

Will there be justice in north Mali, destroyed and controlled by Islamist militants? This is one of the many questions Malian Ibrahima Cissé, one of the initiators of... Read more »

Ethiopia: Where Will the Smoke Blow?

The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi last month has left Ethiopians wondering about their country's political future. For some, that makes this year's celebration of Meskel,... Read more »
Senegal: 10 Years Later, Little Justice in Africa's Titanic

A decade has gone by since the Senegalese government-funded ferry MV Le Joola sank off the coast of Gambia, killing more than 1800 people - one of the worst maritime accidents in... Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: The M23 - DRC's New Scapegoat for Torturing Innocents?

The M23 has been accused of many human rights violations in North Kivu, including rape, abduction and murder. But some say the notorious rebel group in the DRC are not the only... Read more »

Mali: Consensus Is Clear - Reunite Mali. but How?

At its Wednesday session, the United Nations General Assembly will be trying to figure out ways in which the world can help Mali reunite. Read more »
Mali: Refugees Overwhelm Mauritania Camp

Since the Tuareg rebellion and the capture of north Mali by Islamist groups, refugees have been overwhelming M'Bera. Read more »

South Sudan: Cooperative-Run Electricity Empowers Town

Energy is needed to build up a land destroyed by war, but only 1 percent of South Sudan's estimated nine million people have access to the grid. Capital city Juba goes for weeks... Read more »

Eritrea: Newspaperman in Israel Tells It Like It Is

Earlier this month, 21 refugees from Eritrea made international headlines when stranded at the Israeli-Egyptian border. Last month, three migrants from the east African country... Read more »
Kenya: Mysterious Mass Graves Awaken Fear and Activism

Kenyans were shocked this week to learn that two mass graves were reportedly found in the Tana River District. For months, this region in the country's south-east has been the... Read more »
Somalia: Al Shabaab Targets Journalists

Until recently, after a day's work in one of the world's most volatile cities, Mogadishu journalists and civil servants alike would unwind in The Village, a restaurant in the heart... Read more »
Africa: Dutch Parliament Suspends Deportation of Young Asylum Seekers

Dutch Parliament has voted to suspend the deportation of young asylum seekers who have been in the Netherlands longer than five years at least until a new government is formed. Read more »
Cote d'Ivoire: Scrap Yard Metalworkers Get Creative

Like all major cities, especially in Africa, Abidjan struggles with waste management. But at a famous dumpsite for car wrecks in the Ivorian capital, young and proud mechanics,... Read more »

Uganda: Army Vows to Catch Kony Soon

Ugandan soldiers tracking down Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), claim they're going to capture him within two months. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Meet the DRC's Angry Villagers, Part II [opinion]

Fuelled by unsparing anger, young Congolese men, belonging to the movement Raïa Mutomboki, will do anything to defend their families against the FDLR, a Hutu militia formed... Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Meet the DRC's Angry Villagers, Part 1

Fuelled by unsparing anger, young men, mostly in their 20s, will do anything to defend their families against the FDLR, a Hutu militia formed after the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Meet... Read more »

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