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Algeria heads to polls: Tebboune favoured amid rights concerns
07/09/2024
First march of the school year...
I love September... Let's kick off this weekend with some protests, why not? #France...
06/09/2024
Journal de l'Afrique - 5 septembre 2024
I participated in the Journal de l'Afrique on FRANCE 24 - in French - to talk about Chinese and Western investments in Africa...
03/09/2024
Support Nuseirat Camp: Food and Medical Aid
A journalist from Palestine reached out to me: here is her message...
I’m seeking support in donation no matter how little, to help some displaced families in feeding, providing shelter camps, water, internet, medical aid... the list is endless.
No matter how little, it would make a change and put smile on the faces of so many displaced families.
Our next aid is being packaged and would be in Rafah border soon; we are seeking for donations to support as many families as we can.
by Jean Mosher, Organiser
Dear donors, thank you so very much for your generous donations. You are a lifeline for Nuseirat Camp.
At dawn this morning, a direct strike hit the apartment of Palestinian journalist Mohamed Abd Rabbo. He and his sister Sumaya were killed. Mohamed Rabbo's apartment was at Nuseirat Camp. Yousef cannot talk much today.
They are very, very busy trying to transport wounded people as quickly as possible.
Thank you so much for helping them.
September 2024
Update from Yousef Al-Helou
Despite last night's bombing in Nuseirat Camp, the team managed to purchase enough ingredients to feed a lot of hungry people today. They will continue tomorrow when, hopefully, it will be a bit easier.
The bomb last night was in Al-Nuseirat Joint School (Ahmed Al-Sardi), which is dangerously close to the two schools where we run our feeding programme.
Beyond tragic!
The bomb last night was in Al-Nuseirat Joint School (Ahmed Al-Sardi), which is dangerously close to the two schools where we run our feeding programme.
Beyond tragic!
Tunisia and Algeria: Bleak election prospects...
My latest work, on the coming presidential elections in North Africa, in Algeria and in Tunisia
The campaign is drawing to a close in Algeria for a poll that incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune is widely predicted to win... Here is what experts have to say on this political moment of the North African country's history:
Few surprises in store as Algeria's presidential election nears
The campaign is drawing to a close for Algeria's presidential election this weekend - a poll that incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune is widely predicted to win. Experts say the only real unknown is how many voters will turn out.
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on 27 August 2024. © AP - Fateh Guidoum
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Human rights organisation denounce 'dictatorial' climate ahead of Tunisia's presidential election
Just over a month ahead of the presidential election, many opponents of President Kais Saied have been detained in recent months and presidential candidacies invalidated. Only few challengers have been allowed to run against the leader for the 6 October polls, while civil society denounces an 'unhealthy climate'.
The Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH) is one of the organisations which have criticised the power's stranglehold notably on the judiciary.
LTDH's president, Bassem Trifi, said the current political climate was dominated "by a solitary power" and is "not healthy".
According to the Tunisian non-profit organisation, equality between presidential candidates is therefore not assured.
It also denounces the pressure on the media, the lack of fairness in the justice system, as well as verbal political violence and the detention of opponents
This election cannot be considered "in compliance with democratic rules and transparency," the charity added.
Tunisia is "on the verge of becoming a vast prison," according to the organisation.
For the latest, read my story for RFI here:
Tunisian opposition candidate arrested
amid 'dictatorial' pre-election climate
02/09/2024
Energy and climate change: African perspectives
Two of my latest stories for RFI:
Zambia's crippling drought creates chance for solar power to shine
Africa's nuclear dreams a fusion of high hopes and high hurdles
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more on these issues in my newsletter:
31/08/2024
When I wrote a book about that band...
Britain and its 'former' empire, music, politics, culture, the Caribbean and the ghosts of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and the Near East...
Ten years ago exactly in August 2014 I decided to write a book about a band and group of artists who cared about all these topics the way I do.
Historically a centre of the slave trade, Bristol is the hometown of a wealth of internationally renowned artists: Damien Hirst, Banksy, Portishead, Tricky and Massive Attack.
Author Melissa Chemam says that there is a clear link between those two facts. As people were brought in from across the world, their cultures came with them.
The result put Bristol ahead of much of the UK when it came to new and different sounds and ideas.
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Read more here: https://www.france24.com/en/20190212-perspective-melissa-chemam-bristol-massive-attack-art-music-culture-diversity-banksy
Chemam’s new book, "Massive Attack: Out of the Comfort Zone", due to be released in March 2019, focuses on that group and how history and their hometown helped them develop their unique sound.
She was drawn to Massive Attack as they took a strong political stance in their music and even concerts. Something that continues as the group mark the 20th anniversary of perhaps their most popular album, "Mezzanine". She tells us that their latest show contains footage that most TV channels would consider too violent, but the group chose to confront their audience with them.
Chemam also discovers that while the group is international in spirit and sound, they still need the protection of Bristol. "If you don’t protect yourself you will become a slave to the system, a product to market," Chemam says, something Bristol’s musicians have done everything to avoid.
30/08/2024
27/08/2024
FRANCE: Protests scheduled by students, LFI and trade unions for 7 September
Face au coup de force de Macron : mobilisation de tout le pays.
À l'appel des organisations de jeunesse, nous marcherons le 7 septembre.
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In the face of Macron's coup: mobilisation of the entire country.
At the call of youth organisations, French people will march on 7 September.
26/08/2024
Palestinian history: interview with historian Ilan Pappé
My most important interview of the summer:
For Ilan Pappé, Gaza genocide brings
more urgency to studying
the history and crimes of Zionism
Book Club: Professor & author Ilan Pappé delves into Israel's war on Gaza while discussing the re-publishing of his 2006 book and the release of his latest book
Melissa Chemam
24 July, 2024
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