Nsubuga - Instablogs
Dec 11 2009
Eritrean Yirgalam Beyene’s tired eyes swell with tears as she recalls the day her son was killed. One night in April 2008, Beyene found herself lying in the cold sand of Egypt’s vast Sinai desert, nervously eyeing the barbed-wired fence that...
Dec 9 2009
Nigerian police are carrying out a shocking level of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International says. The rights group’s three-year inquiry details cases of prisoners tortured to death and shootings at...
Nov 21 2009
More than 50,000 people have fled clashes between two ethnic groups in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN says. Many of those fleeing are reported to be unaccompanied children, and some people have drowned trying cross a...
Aug 19 2009
Bride gifts have been traditional cultural practice for centuries, upheld by many communities in Uganda and across Africa. Traditionally, bridal gifts were to bring two families together, to unite them through the love of two young people following a...
Jun 17 2009
“In our culture we were nomads and we believed it was our right to take sheep, to take cattle. That is how we see the ships. They are our sheep and we will take them.” The ships that Farrah Ismail speaks of are those plying the sea lanes off the...