05 October 2022
South Africa/Art: A “mid-career retrospective” at Cape Town’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa exhibits South African multimedia artist Tracey Rose who’s art “spans performance, film and video installation, sculpture, photography, print and painting”. A homage.
https://theconversation.com/tracey-rose-renegade-south-african-artist-understanding-her-30-years-of-outrage-191375
Liberia: Students and even politicians have threatened street protests so as to force the government to do something about the rice shortage – rice being a staple.
BBC Africa Live 05 October 2022. 18:05
Rwanda: Suspected of inciting insurrection et al., 3 journalists have spent 4 years in jail without trial. Now a judge has ordered their release, saying the prosecution had not presented enough evidence against the three.
BBC Africa Live 05 October 2022. 17:24
Congo-Kinshasa: A UN report has documented “more than 3,600 cases of torture committed between 2019 and 2022” by the army” and other armed groups” with close to 5,000 victims – of which “hundreds of cases of sexual violence”. Impunity in conflict zones is widespread.
BBC Africa Live 05 October 2022. 13:00
04 October 2022
Kenya: After years of hesitation about GM for possible health reasons, the government has now “authorised the cultivation and importation of genetically modified crops and animal feeds”, the new government brushing such doubts aside, saying that “the country needs seeds that are resistant to drought, pests and diseases”.
BBC Africa Live 04 October 2022. 6:36
Burkina Faso: In Ouézen Louis Oulon’s analysis, Ibrahim Traoré’s taking over from Damiba war “a palace revolution, not a coup” – the same MPSR still being in power. In fact, “many people just want stability and protection from Islamist violence, regardless of who delivers it”.
BBC Africa Live 04 October 2022. 12:19
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0d4cpff for the full interview