Few of us would describe emigration as “illegal” when families are fleeing death and destruction, yet when these refugees cross a national frontier, our hypocritical politicians classify them as “illegal immigrants.”
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The friendship between Richmond and Segou remains strong.
Read issues of our newsletter, the Richmond Chiwara, in the archives.
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I support the well-written article of Mr Jonathan Freedland and Mr Gary Lineker.
Not only does Britain not take a “fair share” of the immigration wave, but neither Freedland nor Lineker mentioned that the United Kingdom is actually responsible for much of the refugee crisis.
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Listen to this Hymn of Nature from Rokia Traoré. No translation is needed. It sounds wonderful. You feel the vibrations of these lyrics and music, coming from the cradle of humanity, Africa.
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BBC coverage emphasizes the “pull” factor encouraging migrants to move to the UK, in a manner that simply misrepresents the nature of migrations. Do your reporters believe that people come to frozen Northern Europe for pleasure?
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Catastrophic flooding in Bamako on August 5th, 2021
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AFRICOM & NATO create war, death and migrations…. but Africa needs food and vaccines.
In this week’s Transcend Media Service dispatch, there is a revealing exposé by Pavan Kulkarni of AFRICOM, the Pentagon’s African Command = America’s Imperial Machine for controlling Africa.
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Since 2016, the growing insecurity in Central Mali has forced thousands of people to seek refuge in makeshift camps in the cities, leaving everything behind.
One such refugee camp sprung up on a stretch of vacant land in the Faladiè neighborhood of Bamako, Mali’s capital city, located between a park of livestock pens and an abandoned garbage dump. This site now constitutes the largest informal refugee camp in Bamako. In April 2020, a large section of the camp was ravaged by fire. When the ashes cooled, most residents soon moved back, with nowhere else to go.
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This is a book about politics, peace and disarmament: indispensable for students of West Africa, of Sahara security, of development and disarmament, of terrorists and migrations.
There are some original ideas to discover and some challenging political themes that offer very new ways of looking at the problems of Africa.
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Ségou, Mali’s second city, holds a fabulous music festival ! For three days we sat and listened to world-famous singers like Habib Koité, Salif Keita, and the exotic Tuareg group Tinariwen, or watched local groups twist and dance and drum their way through the African dust.
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A British Ambassador analyses Syria; and an American Ambassador repeats phony propaganda about Syria. That is my opinion. Read this important Transcend Peace Journalism article and make up your own mind.
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I have been working with Sister Cities International for fifteen years now. SCI is a great international civil society movement supporting friendship between peoples, promoting peace while developing educational and other activities between cities. I totally support the following statement against racism, issued by SCI.
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Dr Muzaffar is completely correct in his critical analysis of Western policy, which has proved disastrous for Iraq and Syria. Syria’s civil war can only be understood through the prism of Iraq and the destructive and nonsensical “Shock and Awe” delivered by George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 2001.
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Adam contributed regularly and brilliantly to international media such as Radio France International, BBC, Deutsche Welle, Africable, Jeune Afrique …. His work for peace and clean government included exposés of Cocaine smuggling from Colombia, and peace building with his essay Centre du Mali : enjeux et dangers d’une crise négligée (2017). Several presidents of Mali called upon his services to run their press offices.
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I am happy that I found you on Facebook. So if you're THE Robin Poulton let me say thank you very much for saving my life and giving me the opportunity for a better future.
In January 2021 on my Facebook Page, I found this delightful and unexpected message from a young man called Eleman Bah, whom I have not seen since 1987 in The Gambia.
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West Africans were using variolation hundreds of years ago, and they brought it to America in 1706. In the 1700s, Africans taught their technique for protecting themselves against smallpox to the very European settlers who enslaved them.
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Shell is definitely guilty of pollution in Nigeria. I can state that many Shell officials are racists who care nothing about Nigeria so long as they get their own fat salaries; and I believe Shell has also been guilty of complicity with Nigerian government corruption during the military dictatorships that ruined Nigeria.
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UNICEF's message on protecting girls against Gender Based Violence (GBV) is this: we must teach boys to respect girls. Watch UNICEF’s message on BBC. Plus, new initiative in support of girls launched in Segou, Mali together with sister cities Richmond, Virginia and Angoulême, France.
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COVID has just taken an old friend, Soumaïla Cissé who was the Official Leader of the Opposition in Mali and aged 71, who died December 15th 2020 from the effects of COVID-19.
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Originally this document was a teacher handout for a Mali Exhibit in Richmond VA, for the Standard of Learning in Virginia’s Elementary Schools.
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