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Dec 11, 2024 | 
lacuna.org.uk | Jaclynn Ashly
The city of Gondar in Ethiopia was rocked by religious violence after an attack on a funeral in April 2022. Ensuing riots between Christians and Muslims left 20 dead and many injured. Visiting the city in Ethiopia’s northwest, Jaclynn Ashly speaks with eyewitnesses, researchers and community leaders, to expose the roots of the interfaith violence and unravel a complex religious and cultural history. Saed Mohammed, 18, was unable to speak for more than a year.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Jaclynn Ashly
72 years after the Declaration of Emergency in Kenya triggered one of the bloodiest anti-colonial wars in history, little has changed for survivors. Mukami Kimathi begins to sing.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
lacuna.org.uk | Jaclynn Ashly
In Somaliland, conflict and climate change are causing scores to flee home as “internally displaced peoples” (IDPs). But in a self-proclaimed independent country unrecognised by foreign powers, the distinction between “IDP” and “refugee” becomes less clear. The Sheikh Omar settlement, outside the capital Hargeisa, is one of many housing a growing number of IDPs fleeing to urban centres and facing unique challenges.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Jaclynn Ashly
analysisThe evidence of colonial Britain's attempt to eliminate the Talai a century ago is only now coming to light, as the last of the survivors seek justice. Before 1934, Kibore Cheruiyot Ng'asura's life was peaceful. As a teenager, he spent most of his time looking after his family's livestock. He is Kipsigis, the largest subgroup of the Kalenjin who migrated to the Rift Valley in present-day Kenya centuries ago.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
africanarguments.org | Jaclynn Ashly |Debbie Ariyo
Before 1934, Kibore Cheruiyot Ng’asura’s life was peaceful. As a teenager, he spent most of his time looking after his family’s livestock. He is Kipsigis, the largest subgroup of the Kalenjin who migrated to the Rift Valley in present-day Kenya centuries ago. Ngasura is also a member of the clan that was once the most powerful among the Kipsigis: the Talai.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
globaldiasporanews.com | Jaclynn Ashly
Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By continuing to browse this site, you agree to our use of cookies. Translate » Source of original article: African Arguments (africanarguments.org). The content of this article does not necessarily reflect the views or opinion of Global Diaspora News (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com). To submit your press release: (https://www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com/pr). To advertise on Global Diaspora News: (www.GlobalDiasporaNews.com/ads).
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Jaclynn Ashly
Part of the SeriesStruggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian LiberationSometimes Afnan al-Hashim finds herself feeling envious of her 36-year-old sister Fida, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in February, along with her husband and four small children — one of whom was just six months old.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
rebelion.org | Jaclynn Ashly
Fuentes: Electronic Intifada [Foto: Hafez Jameel al-Masri (Jaclynn Ashly)]Traducido del inglés por Marwan Perez para Rebelión El 15 de octubre de 2023, una semana después de que comenzara el devastador ataque israelí contra la Franja de Gaza, Hafez Jameel al-Masri fue a su apartamento en el oeste de Rafah para ducharse. «Abrí la ducha y el agua cayó sobre mi cuerpo», relata el joven de 28 años desde un apartamento en la capital egipcia, El Cairo.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
electronicintifada.net | Jaclynn Ashly
On 15 October 2023, a week after Israel’s devastating assault on the Gaza Strip began, Hafez Jameel al-Masri went to his apartment in west Rafah to take a shower. “I turned on the shower, and the water fell on my body,” recounts the 28-year-old from an apartment in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. “All I know after that is that I ended up under the rubble. I woke up when I was still buried.”All of Masri’s immediate 13 family members were killed in the Israeli airstrike that day.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
aljazeera.com | Jaclynn Ashly
In 1905, a colonial British officer killed Koitalel Arap Samoei, the supreme leader of the Nandi tribe. According to oral history, his severed head was taken to the UK. The Nandi have been searching for it ever since. Nandi, Kenya - As a child, Anne Machii Samoei, now 87, heard many stories about her grandfather Koitalel Arap Samoei, the orkoiyot or supreme leader of Kenya’s Nandi tribe who led a revolt against the British for more than a decade in the late 19th century.
