Posts tagged Guinea

“A ‘mama’ who saw me crying during the flight took me under her wing. She helped me through the police formalities once we arrived…I am currently staying with this lady and I live in the same conditions as the Guinean people: power cuts in the evening and Internet connection with a key that barely works.” Senegalese authorities have expelled Chadian journalist and blogger Makaila Nguebla, an opponent of his country’s President Idriss Déby who has ruled Chad for more than two decades, to neighboring Guinea after refusing to grant him political refugee status. Nguebla, who was living in exile in Senegal’s capital city of Dakar since 2005, was deported on May 8, 2013. He settled in Senegal after being arrested in Tunisia in 2005. Interview: Chadian Blogger and Journalist Expelled from Senegal to Guinea

“A ‘mama’ who saw me crying during the flight took me under her wing. She helped me through the police formalities once we arrived…I am currently staying with this lady and I live in the same conditions as the Guinean people: power cuts in the evening and Internet connection with a key that barely works.”

Senegalese authorities have expelled Chadian journalist and blogger Makaila Nguebla, an opponent of his country’s President Idriss Déby who has ruled Chad for more than two decades, to neighboring Guinea after refusing to grant him political refugee status.

Nguebla, who was living in exile in Senegal’s capital city of Dakar since 2005, was deported on May 8, 2013. He settled in Senegal after being arrested in Tunisia in 2005.

Interview: Chadian Blogger and Journalist Expelled from Senegal to Guinea

We remain powerless to the promotion of certain alleged perpetrators of this barbarity in high civil and military positions.

On September 28, 2009, the Guinean security forces had killed more than 150 unarmed protesters during an opposition rally. More than 40 woman were raped in public, at least 1,500 people were injured, and many others disappeared.

there are many of us who have proof, that more than 100 Guinean women, most of them Fulani, were, on September 28, 2009, and the following days, victims of rape and torture carried out by Guinean soldiers, policemen and politicians, some clearly identified, and that to this day, exactly two years after those awful events, not one person has been arrested or tried by judges.

Arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, rigged trials and executions are not difficult to find in Guinea’s history.

But for the officials guilty of these crimes impunity prevails…

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Ampote Mango, holding a camera for the first time in Guinea-Bissau. Digital photography plays a major part in the Rising Voices grantee project “Youth Voices of Bandim and Enterramento”

Ampote Mango, holding a camera for the first time in Guinea-Bissau.

Digital photography plays a major part in the Rising Voices grantee project “Youth Voices of Bandim and Enterramento”

Why do Guineans dread September 28?

Citizen media in action in Guinea-Bissau! Associação Amigos das Crianças (Association Friends of the Children), a local organisation in the Western African country of Guinea-Bissau, is adding digital storytelling to the cultural offerings available to the neighborhood youth. A Rising Voices Grantee

Citizen media in action in Guinea-Bissau!

Associação Amigos das Crianças (Association Friends of the Children), a local organisation in the Western African country of Guinea-Bissau, is adding digital storytelling to the cultural offerings available to the neighborhood youth.

A Rising Voices Grantee

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