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Fwd: AlertNet Weekly Digest 15 October 2014 - Ebola still spreading in West Africa, U.N. cuts food aid to 1 million Afghans, violence grips Yemen
The top humanitarian headlines from trust.org this week include: Ebola still spreading in West Africa, U.N. cuts food aid to 1 million Afghans, violence grips Yemen
AFRICA
Sierra Leone residents clash with police over Ebola response
WHO says Ebola epidemic still spreading in West Africa
WHO may declare Nigeria and Senegal Ebola-free within days
Many Liberian healthcare workers ignore Ebola strike call
VIDEO: Ebola researcher looks to the internet for funding
VIDEO: Obama: World is not doing enough to contain Ebola
Somalia presidential adviser linked to militants -UN monitors
Nine killed including UN peacekeeper in Central African Republic
AMERICAS
Colombia says rebel chief has been to Cuba for peace talks
VIDEO: First group of Syrian refugees arrives in Uruguay
ASIA
U.N. agency to cut food rations for 1 million Afghans over funding
Cyclone kills 24 in east India, sparks fears of floods
Reluctance to use toilets stymies India's sanitation drive
INSIGHT-India-Pakistan clashes escalate into a humanitarian tragedy
Landslides menace Kashmir's unprotected mountain villages
EUROPE
Europe urged to end plight of 600,000 ghost people
FACTBOX: How does someone end up stateless in Europe?
"Like tumbleweed, I can never put down roots" - stateless woman
MIDDLE EAST
Houthi rebels take over Yemen's Hodeidah port -residents
INSIGHT-Yemen on the brink as rebels oust the old guard
Kobani air strikes seen more accurate, Kurds give coordinates-monitor
Kurds hold off Islamic State in Kobani; fighters strike in Iraq
Bomb training vital as Kurds retake Islamic State ground in Iraq
Up to 180,000 refugees flee Iraqi town - UN
Islamic State seeks to justify enslaving Yazidi women and girls in Iraq
Kerry pushes for Mideast peace, donors pledge $5 bln for Palestinians
GLOBAL
Can the world produce enough food for 2 bln more people?
Burundi, Eritrea, East Timor top global hunger index
Aid groups cheer food price fall to 4-year low, "hunger hotspots" remain
Older people hit hardest by disasters - report
Malala Yousafzai, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize
VOICES
Why haven't we seen a major Ebola crisis before? - Reporter Peter Apps says people not governments will end Ebola as he recalls his time covering Angola's Marburg outbreak
Investigative journalism's "golden age" faces surveillance threat - Kieran Guilbert, Thomson Reuters Foundation
The face of hunger is not partisan - Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development
Hope in the slums of Nairobi starts to run dry - Jane Otai, Senior Program Advisor for Jhpiego, a non-profit global health affiliate of Johns Hopkins University
You're never too old to be disaster-resilient - Margareta Wahlstrom, U.N. Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction and head of the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Taking on 'hidden hunger' which affects a staggering 2 billion people worldwide - Dominic MacSorley, CEO Concern Worldwide
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Africa Realities Media offre un espace aux écrivains, chercheurs, experts, activistes, voix communautaires, militants, analystes et personnes ayant une expérience vécue qui souhaitent contribuer à des contenus réfléchis, responsables et courageux sur les changements nécessaires dans la région des Grands Lacs, ainsi que sur les réalités politiques, économiques, culturelles et sociales africaines souvent ignorées, minimisées ou mal représentées.
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Africa Realities Media exposes that system.
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Survivors, displaced communities, refugees, families affected by repression, journalists, activists, women, young people and diaspora voices are not passive subjects. They are knowledge holders.
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Africa Realities Media is rooted in one principle: African lives deserve equal truth, equal justice and equal protection.
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Africa Realities Media speaks to Africa and to the developed world. Many abuses facing African people are committed by African states and ruling elites, but they are often protected by international silence, lobbying, public relations, trade interests, migration deals and unequal global accountability. While governments pay lobbyists to present a good image abroad, ordinary African people continue to face violence, hunger, disease, poverty, repression and exclusion. We challenge the normalisation of African suffering and demand equal truth, equal justice and equal protection.
Pourquoi Africa Realities Media est différent?
Africa Realities Media s’adresse à l’Afrique et au monde développé. De nombreux abus subis par les peuples africains sont commis par des États africains et des élites dirigeantes, mais ils sont souvent protégés par le silence international, le lobbying, les relations publiques, les intérêts commerciaux, les accords migratoires et une responsabilité mondiale inégale. Tandis que des gouvernements paient des lobbyistes pour présenter une bonne image à l’étranger, des Africains ordinaires continuent de faire face à la violence, à la faim, aux maladies, à la pauvreté, à la répression et à l’exclusion. Nous contestons la normalisation de la souffrance africaine et exigeons une vérité égale, une justice égale et une protection égale.
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Our work is designed to trigger debate, discomfort and action. We do not only expose injustice; we work for policy and systems change.
We want governments and institutions to address the root causes of inequality, disadvantage, discrimination, exclusion and barriers affecting African people. We believe lasting change must be shaped by people with lived experience.
Exposing Injustice in Africa
Africa Realities Media is an independent African accountability platform based in London. We report, analyse and challenge the systems that shape African suffering, silence African victims and protect abusive power.
We are not here to repeat diplomatic language. We are here to ask the questions that are often avoided: why are African deaths treated as normal? Why are African victims given less urgency? Why are governments that imprison, exclude, displace or kill their own people protected when they serve powerful international interests?
Africa Realities Media gives space to writers, researchers, experts, activists, community voices, campaigners, analysts and people with lived experience who want to contribute thoughtful, responsible and courageous content about the changes needed in the region, as well as the political, economic, cultural and social African realities that are often ignored, minimised or misrepresented.
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