rachelstrohm

rachelstrohm, 14 days ago to random

🇨🇩 I had no idea that colonial-era land theft and forced labour in the DRC led to the creation of the company that would eventually become Unilever https://africanarguments.org/2024/04/colonialism-revamped-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo/

rachelstrohm, 14 days ago to random

☀️ Climate change is leading to the age of the camel across East Africa https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2024/camel-milk-drought-climate-change-kenya/

rachelstrohm, 20 days ago to random

This is a brilliant long read about the history of Kampala from the precolonial period onwards, by A.K. Kaiza https://debunk.media/quarterly/the-violent-birth-of-kampala/

rachelstrohm, 23 days ago to random

Moderna has paused its plans for a vaccine manufacturing plant in #Kenya, as demand for covid vaccines has dropped, and other promising mRNA vaccines for diseases like malaria and HIV are still at very early stages of development https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-puts-kenya-plant-plans-hold-covid-vaccine-demand-slumps-2024-04-11/

rachelstrohm, 24 days ago to random

In #Kenya, "qualified medical graduates are struggling to get jobs, despite staff shortages at public hospitals, due to the government’s budget shortfalls" https://www.semafor.com/article/04/02/2024/why-more-doctors-could-leave-kenya?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

rachelstrohm, 28 days ago to random

#Ethiopia has called for 70,000 citizens working in abusive conditions in Saudi Arabia to return home https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/rest-of-africa/ethiopia-repatriates-70-000-from-saudi-arabia-4573338

rachelstrohm, 28 days ago to random

Exciting to hear that the #DRC now has its first female prime minister, Judith Suminwa! https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/tshisekedi-appoints-judith-suminwa-country-s-first-female-pm-4575872

rachelstrohm, 1 month ago to nigeria

#Nigeria has launched a three-month cash transfer programme meant to cushion the impacts of inflation after a fuel subsidy was removed https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigeria-restarts-cash-transfers-cushion-hardship-caused-by-reforms-2024-02-26/

rachelstrohm, 1 month ago to random

#Burundi was initially forecast to have heavy rains during the 2024 agricultural growing season, but instead has experienced heat and drought, putting food security at risk (by Aristide Niyonkuru) https://www.iwacu-burundi.org/des-previsions-meteos-contraires-a-la-realite/

rachelstrohm, 1 month ago to random

#Chad has been allocating almost all of its national oil output to multinational mining company Glencore after taking an oil-backed loan from the company in 2014 - and new data suggests the original agreement was signed with massive bribery https://www.source-material.org/glencore-chad-oil-loan-secret-payments/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

rachelstrohm, 1 month ago to nigeria

In #Nigeria, Emele Onu writes that Lagos has opened a second light rail line. I'm just dying of envy thinking of what something like this could do for Nairobi! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-29/lagos-opens-second-rail-line-to-ease-the-world-s-worst-traffic?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter

rachelstrohm, 1 month ago to random

In the #DRC, Noella Nbihogo writes that members of the Pygmy community have been evicted from their homes inside Virunga park in violation of national law https://africanarguments.org/2024/03/id-give-anything-to-go-back-pygmy-communities-face-eviction-in-virunga/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=id-give-anything-to-go-back-pygmy-communities-face-eviction-in-virunga

rachelstrohm, 2 months ago to nigeria

"Most legal practices in [#Nigeria] reflect external colonial imposition and very little in these actually reflects the norms/customs of the people ... particularly, the language of the law and the language of the court." https://folukeafrica.com/an-anticolonial-lawyer-in-a-colonial-court/

rachelstrohm, 2 months ago to random

Good news as #Tanzania, #Rwanda and #Burundi are on track to launch a large cross-border hydropower plant in April https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/business/tanzania-burundi-rwanda-s-power-plant-handover-set-for-april-4524936

rachelstrohm, 2 months ago to worldwithoutus

Some good data here on the top remittance recipient countries across #Africa https://www.semafor.com/article/02/01/2024/nigerias-japa-economy-spurs-a-battle-over-remittances-market?utm_source=newslettershare&utm_medium=africa&utm_campaign=semaforstory#b

rachelstrohm, 2 months ago to car

Data from the #CAR suggests that the humanitarian crisis is much worse than commonly understood, "with 82 percent of adults and 73 percent of children eating only once a day or not at all" in 2022 https://undark.org/2024/01/24/central-african-republic-mortality/?utm_source=Undark%3A%20News%20%26%20Updates&utm_campaign=772f1c4606-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5cee408d66-185e4e09de-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

rachelstrohm, 2 months ago to Somalia

In #Somalia, scammers are profiting off the anxiety of parents whose children have gone missing in the Mediterranean https://www.voanews.com/a/somali-parents-agonize-over-missing-migrants/7460301.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

rachelstrohm, 3 months ago to random

In #Kenya, "there are fewer than 1,000 professors for the country’s 68 universities and 562,925 students. That is an average of around 563 students per professor." https://theconversation.com/kenyan-universities-are-very-short-of-professors-why-it-matters-and-what-to-do-about-it-219740

rachelstrohm, 3 months ago to random

#Niger, #Mali, and #BurkinaFaso have announced that they're leaving ECOWAS and forming their own mutual security pact called the Alliance of Sahel States, in response to regional sanctions against the coup leaders in all three countries https://theconversation.com/mali-burkina-faso-and-niger-want-to-leave-ecowas-a-political-scientist-explains-the-fallout-222388

rachelstrohm, 3 months ago to random

#Kenya has found large deposits of coltan, the valuable mineral used in mobile phone manufacturing https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/embu/-kenya-strikes-large-deposits-coltan-mineral-used-in-phones-4502382

rachelstrohm, 3 months ago to random

In #Sudan, "the war is the culmination of two centuries ... of repeated failures by the riverain core in the Nile Valley to impose its hegemony over the state’s peripheries — be that in Darfur, the Nuba Mountains, the North, the East, or South Sudan" https://kenopalo.substack.com/p/civil-war-in-sudan

rachelstrohm, 4 months ago to Norway

Absolutely loving this #Kenya-#Norway musical collab from Unganisha! https://unganisha.bandcamp.com/album/mbili-mbili

rachelstrohm, 5 months ago to random

Have the nearly 2000 CCTV cameras which #Kenya installed across Nairobi since 2014 actually made the city safer? This article suggests they haven't https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/africa-surveillance-china-magnum/

rachelstrohm, 5 months ago to random

This is a great history of women's activism in #Zimbabwe https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/zimbabwes-third-generation-feminists-after-covid-19/

rachelstrohm, 5 months ago to random

"More than one million people are estimated to remain internally displaced from the Tigray war" in #Ethiopia, often lacking basic necessities like food and clean water, almost a year after a peace agreement was signed https://addisstandard.com/analysis-why-over-one-million-idps-in-tigray-still-linger-in-camps-a-year-after-peace-deal/