By Roberta K. Timothy Guest Writer The world my children live in is divided in two, as Frantz Fanon wrote in 1952 in The Wretched of the Earth. It is a world divided in endless opposites, a world still pained by ...
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Can Uganda Reduce Financial Exclusion To 5 Percent In 5 Years?
By Nathan Were IPS Guest Writer WASHINGTON DC, January 17, 2018 (IPS) — In October 2017, Uganda launched a new five-year National Financial Inclusion Strategy. The strategy seeks to reduce financial exclusion from 15 to 5 percent by 2022 by ensuring ...
Read More »Chance For Kenya To Make Amends For Post-Election Sexual Violence
By Agnes Odhiambo IPS Guest Writer NAIROBI, Kenya January 17, 2018 (IPS) — I had already heard many disturbing stories of violence by the time I interviewed Mercy Maina, whose name I have changed to protect her privacy. Even so, ...
Read More »Ethiopia’s New Addiction, And What It Says About Media Freedom
By James Jeffrey IPS Contributing Writer ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia January 17, 2018 (IPS) — On a Saturday afternoon in one of Addis Ababa’s khat houses, a group of men and women chew the mildly narcotic plant while gazing, mesmerized, toward ...
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