Progress in Africa towards fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals is largely made by women. Cartoonist Popa Matumula (Tanzania) takes on the issue in today’s cartoon.
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Photographer Molhem Barakat is one of the latest of dozens of journalists, reporters, photographers and videographers killed in 2013 while trying to bring the news of the Syria conflict to the world’s attention. Here’s a list by Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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Political cartoonist Maarten Wolterink (France) on homophobia and the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
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Today’s cartoon comes to us from Osvaldo Gutierrez Gomez (Cuba). From Cartoon Movement’s project 360 Degrees on the theme “The police – part of the people or part of the power (and why)?”
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On January 9, 2014Amiri Baraka, poet, playwright and activist, passed away at the age of 79. A leading figure of the Black Arts movement, today we remember Baraka by sharing an interview Sampsonia Way published in 2011, after he came to read with Cave Canem at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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In today’s cartoon Payam Boromand (Iran) comments on the recent spate of terrorist related attacks in Russia ahead of the Winter Olympic games in Sochi.
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Political cartoonist Jehad Awrtani (Jordan) on the US Prism program, which deemed to allow the tracking of people on the internet worldwide.
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