22 May 2022
Somali Women’s Space of Freedom: BBC journalist Mary Harper reports from Little Mogadishu, a Somali neighbourhood in Nairobi, from Hargeisa, Somaliland, etc. She writes about what she has learnt in women only company. “In communities where women are expected to cover up and keep quiet, beauty parlours are a place for them to breathe and to throw off the trappings of their male-dominated societies.” Beauty parlours create “elaborate hairstyles and exquisite henna designs (…) – then largely hidden under headscarves and long robes”. Somalis are proud.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61379487
21 May 2022
Rwanda/GB: BBC has interviewed migrants and aid agencies across the Channel in a Calais camp – the great majority will still attempt to get to Britain, never mind London’s deal with Kigali – “for most migrants here, ready to gamble with their lives to reach the UK, resettlement is just one more risk.” While one of the interviewees said that in the case of being transferred to Rwanda, “(m)y life would be over. It would be like killing me slowly”, another opined that “he would come straight back to Calais, and try to cross the Channel again.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61523009
Nigeria/Facial scars: They were mostly marks of identity. But they have been on their way out for some time. In 2003, a federal law has banned all forms of child mutilation – that includes facial scars. To see the many pictures that come with the BBC article, follow the link:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-61229617