We spoke to Armengol Engonga Ondo, president of the Progressive Party of Equatorial Guinea (PP) since the resignation of its founder, Severo Moto, in 2020. The PP was born in 1983, “the first E...
The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has called for a cessation of hostilities in Sudan during the holy month of Ramadan. The AU said in a statement on Frida...
By the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, international conventions denounce and prohibit the enslavement of human beings. They have been ratified by every state in the world. However, d...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/03/the-abolition-of-slavery-in-mauritania/
Fish disappeared from the sea near Tsunza, a village on the Kenyan coast, after several oil spills between 2003 and 2006. This, combined with the disappearance of the mangroves, has had a serious...
It has been more than six months since that calamitous night in the High Atlas Mountains in the Kingdom of Morocco. By Yossef Ben-Meir Devastating earthquakes are nightmarish realities, and it is...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/02/earthquake-recovery-in-morocco-all-phases-at-once/
On a white canvas, people painted various structures, objects, and creatures in different colors. Kavita Sada Musahar’s creation was on its way to becoming a painting (with houses, people, bird...
The president of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier has expressed remorse for the atrocities which occurred between 1904 to 1908 under German colonial rule that resulted in the deaths of tens of tho...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/02/germany-commits-to-apologizing-to-namibia-for-genocide/
This is the record number of deaths and disappearances at the southern border since 1988 when the first registers were documented. A total of 58,267 people entered the Spanish state irregularly t...
Sierra Leone, a West African nation known for its rich cultural heritage and historical significance, has been grappling with governance challenges since the victory of the Sierra Leone People’...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/02/political-situation-in-serra-leone/
Diallo Ablaye, founding vice-president of the Sur Sur International Cooperation Foundation, international representative of the World Pan-African Organisation OPAM-WOPO/OPDH, and secretary of CON...
by: Assaf Levy The hippopotamus, often simply referred to as a hippo, is a creature that fascinates and delights those who are fortunate enough to witness it in its natural habitat. These semi-aq...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/02/the-majestic-hippopotamus-gentle-giants-of-the-waterways/
I postulate that nobody initially wants to leave their countries, homes, customs, and families. Man is a social and gregarious animal and the bonds that are generated with those close to him, nuc...
Professor Dire Tladi was elected by the United Nations to serve as an ICJ judge. He’s the first South African to be a permanent judge at the court. Dire Tladi is a professor of international la...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/02/professor-dire-tladi-sworn-in-as-icj-judge/
The Administrative Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court has condemned Spain for the return of eight unaccompanied migrant minors in August 2021. This followed the migration crisis in May of the s...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/01/spain-condemned-for-illegally-returning-migrant-minors/
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered several tombs containing mummy masks and a figure of the local god of silence. The new find was made in a joint mission by Waseda University (Japan) and the...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/01/mummy-masks-and-figure-of-the-god-of-silence-discovered-in-egypt/
Namibia’s President, Hage Geingob, has expressed deep concern over Germany’s recent decision to reject an indictment before the International Court of Justice, which accused Israel of committ...
The Berber New Year (Yennayer) is celebrated by the «Amazigh people» in a spirit of joy and sharing in different regions of North Africa but also in the Canary Islands of the European continent...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/01/berber-new-year-2974-yennayer-symbol-of-identity-and-resistance/
Human rights and migrants’ rights organisations and collectives have raised an accusatory alert against the Tunisian government and claim that there is a repressive campaign “to satisfy Europ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/01/tunisia-expulsions-and-arrests-of-sub-saharan-migrants/
On 6 January 2024, in Pikine, Senegal, the sixth Humanist Forum was successfully held, attracting the participation of 180 guests distributed in 10 work groups, each focusing on a specific theme....
https://www.pressenza.com/2024/01/sixth-humanist-forum-took-place-in-senegal/
On 16 September 2023, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso signed the Liptako-Gourma Charter, establishing a new alliance between the three French-speaking African states of the Sahel. An alliance that l...
With the beginning of a new year and the ending of another COP, it is important to reflect on what we’ve accomplished and what we missed this year. COP28, which ended two weeks ago was filled w...
South Africa today filed an application instituting proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, concerning alle...
After eleven years of senseless civil war in my country Sierra Leone, the main opposition APC (All People’s Congress) tried so hard to put the stability of the country. they tried to put certai...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/12/unrest-after-controversial-re-election-in-sierra-leone/
This coming 10th of December, at 11:00 am. Argentina, the Centre for Humanist Studies of the Americas will hold its IV Symposium. There will be simultaneous translation in Spanish, English, and P...
It is 10 years since the physical death of South African leader Nelson Mandela. This tenth anniversary offers South Africa and the world an opportunity to reflect, to assess what has been achieve...
On Saturday evening, December 2, 2023, the rescue ship Humanity 1 was detained in Crotone, southern Italy, after disembarking 200 people rescued from distress at sea. The Italian authorities’ j...
by: Assaf Levy, BioDB In the tough terrains of Africa, a fast and strong hunter quietly moves – the cheetah. Picture an animal so speedy that it can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in just a�...
Djibouti is a small East African country with an area of 23,200 square km or a little bit smaller than Haiti, Rwanda, or North Macedonia, or a little bit larger than Belize, El Salvador, Israel, ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/12/close-the-foreign-bases-in-djibouti/
The South African Parliament voted on a motion to close the Israeli Embassy in the country. The motion was PASSED with 248 votes for and 91 against. “Free Palestine in Parliament” slogans wer...
by Dr. Aliyu Yaya Aliyu and Genevieve Balance Kupang, PHD “We navigate challenges with passion, resilience, and wisdom, shaping curricula, fostering innovation, and celebrating collaboration...
by: Assaf Levy, BioDB Have you ever wondered if an animal could be so interesting that it seems like it is from a storybook? Imagine this: deep inside Africa’s lush forests lives an animal s...
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the recent arrest as well as raids of a media office in India’s capital city New Delhi, asse...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/10/pec-expresses-concern-over-the-arrest-of-indian-media-persons/
The Nigerian crisis has been building up for months. Inflation and low wages, as well as the government’s announcement to suspend fuel subsidies, which would have a strong impact on the cost of...
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Ghana for three days to protest against the government, as outrage grows over the exorbitant rise in the cost of living and unemployment. Romeo said: “...
The Pro Human Rights Association of Andalusia explains that “the Moroccan government is never there and never expected” and that Mohammed VI is “an absolute monarch who despises his people ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/09/apdha-denounces-chaos-and-neglect-in-morocco/
The situation that has affected Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eritrea for 30 years certainly deserves greater media coverage. The Eritrean government has in fact undertaken, unfortunately for decades ...
Zulu culture: “A look from the stars”. The Centre for Humanist Studies of the Americas (CEHA), with headquarters in Mendoza and activities in Colombia, Panama, Canary Islands, Dominican Repub...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/09/cehas-virtual-presentation-on-zulu-culture-a-look-from-the-stars/
This is a citizen’s right. A right of defiance, of distrust towards a State and its institutions when we are convinced that our rights are being violated By Makhtar DIOUF | SENEPLUS.COM Civil d...
A faction of the army overthrew Gabon’s government on Wednesday morning, in another nationalist coup in a former French colony on the continent this year. By Pedro Aguiar The coup appears to ha...
Africa is back in the news and has become an area of high international tension. The memory of the Libyan war and the destruction of that country still lingers in the minds of its neighbours. The...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is prepared to participate at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 22 to 24. The BRICS 2023 summit is the fifteenth upcoming annual B...
The Sixth BRICS Media Forum kicked off Saturday in Johannesburg, South Africa, with a call to strengthen the voices of developing countries. About 200 representatives from around 100 media, think...
In the last few days your ship Ocean Viking has carried out 15 rescue operations in the Mediterranean with the coordination of the Italian authorities, bringing on board a total of 623 migrants r...
It promised to be the most defining, innovative and transformative protocol on African women’s rights. Specific in its approach, broad in its scope and unique in its comprehensive nature, cover...
In the wake of the seizure of power by General Abdourahamane Tchiani’s army in Niger on July 26th, a significant escalation in tensions has emerged between Niamey and its former colonial ruler,...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/08/potential-complexity-arising-between-france-and-niger/
The Saharawi journalist, Mohamed Lamin Hadi, detained in Tifelt 2, who was sentenced to 25 years and 6 years in solitary confinement, has started a new hunger strike because of cruel treatment an...
Since Niger’s army under the command of General Abdourahamane Tchiani seized power on 26 July, an exponential increase in tensions between Niamey and its former colonial masters in Paris has ma...
The United Nations has warned that ongoing fighting between rivaling forces in Sudan has plunged the humanitarian situation of the impoverished nation from critical to catastrophic. Two senior ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/08/un-sounds-alarm-over-sudans-catastrophic-humanitarian-situation/
This August 6th, the Centre for Humanist Studies of the Americas has organised the conference “Bantu returning to Kemet (Egypt)” by Maali Kentake. It will take place at 11 AM Argentina. For m...
Last year, following an invitation from some folks who lived there, I was in Western Sahara in northwestern Africa. By Tim Pluta, World BEYOND War, Some friends of mine from the U.S. took a trip ...
At 3 a.m. on July 26, 2023, the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Troops, led by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani closed the countrys b...
The forest fires that have ravaged Kabylia and some regions of Greece are extremely violent, touching people in their flesh and claiming many victims. A human and environmental drama that the int...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/08/forest-fires-in-kabylia-a-surge-of-solidarity-is-organized/
The world looks the other way. There are hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants stranded on the Libya-Tunisia border. They were pushed to the border area by the Tunisian police, but are not allowed to ...
Countries across Africa recently took a major step towards economic independence from the West by launching an insurance system that will allow them to conduct inter-state trade without the invol...
Countries across Africa recently took a major step towards economic independence from the West by launching an insurance system that will allow them to conduct inter-state trade without the invol...
Now that the fisheries agreement between the European Union and Morocco has expired, there are no moral or legal arguments left to maintain any economic activity in Western Sahara. The status of ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/07/the-illegality-of-the-eu-morocco-fisheries-agreement/
What do Argentina and South Sudan have in common? At first glance, nothing. While one has a vast territory – it is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world – the African nation could...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/07/happy-interdependence-day/
In 2019, Abiy Ahmed Ali, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, launched a campaign to plant 6 billion trees as part of the so-called Green Legacy initiative. The initiative is part of the government’s po...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/07/ethiopia-green-legacy-initiative-enters-its-second-phase/
Being gay in rural Namibia – The story of Owen Sinengela In certain parts of Namibia, a man who exhibits feminine behaviour is subjected to derogatory names such as “moffie” or “eshenge.�...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/07/no-one-brought-homosexuality-to-my-village/
Adeline Umukunzi, a 28-year-old mushroom farmer from Musanze, a district about 100 kilometres north of the capital, Kigali, is convinced that women have often been the invisible faces of agribusi...
The framework of our civilization is premised on the destruction of the planet. This article is an edited version of a speech the author delivered at Health of Mother Earth Foundation’s 10th An...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/06/the-struggle-for-environmental-justice-in-africa/
Since Algerian « independence » in 1962, for which Kabylia nevertheless invested body and soul by consenting to immense sacrifices, believing it would find its happiness like that of the other ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/06/human-rights-violations-solidarity-for-kabylia/
Tunisia: UN human rights chief requests authorities to stop restricting press freedom and criminalising independent journalism By: UN News. On Friday, United Nations High Commissioner for Human R...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/06/tunisia-repression-of-press-freedom/
From the 23rd to the 25th of June the fifth Maghrebi Social Forum on migration is taking place in the city of Nador under the slogan “Never again Chinatown. For a Maghreb free of all hatred, xe...
Based on numbers issued by the Ministry of Education, roughly 136,000 students started taking their Baccalaureate exam, the national high-school leaving exam, between June 7 to 14 this year, and ...
As part of its actions in support of the Amazigh people, Régions et Peuples Solidaires (RPS), a federation of regional and autonomist political parties in France (Corsica, Occitania, Savoy, Alsa...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/06/solidarity-with-the-amazigh-people-in-algeria/
Even though the right to mobility is one of the fundamental rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a significant number of Tunisians find themselves deprived of such a right,...
South Africa will soon begin production of the groundbreaking HIV-prevention drug, long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA), finally making the life-saving treatment affordable within the African contin...
On the 29th of April, the country registered extremely high temperatures standing at 34 degrees Celsius in the capital Tunis, even reaching 38 degrees in the southern parts of the country, a nota...
As technology develops at a dizzying rate, cultures rooted in traditions that go back centuries are struggling to adapt, with older generations either unimpressed or frightened by the tidal wave ...
In extraordinary and unexpected news, Namibia’s Supreme Court has granted recognition to same-sex marriages conducted overseas putting in doubt the validity of colonial era sodomy laws that, al...
The researcher of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Roberto Cantoni, was expelled from Western Sahara yesterday afternoon by the Moroccan authorities. Two agents presented themselves as aut...
I have always believed in human values as a basic principle of respect and coexistence between the different cultures that inhabit this planet. If some peoples came from the North Atlantic and th...
In a statement released today in Addis Ababa, headquarters of the African Union, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, said he “welcomes the announcement ma...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/05/african-union-welcomes-upcoming-constitutional-referendum-in-mali/
In the bustling city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, a passionate group of young leaders are driving change through their innovative NGO. Their approach is simple but effective. They use the power of...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/05/tanzania-art-inspires-young-people-to-act-against-climate-crisis/
On March 8th, the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) held a protest in front of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany, drawing attention to the demands of genocide descendants to be in...
The government’s failure to retain the competencies and entrepreneurial energy of new generations by not adapting their strategies to the methods that the developed world currently follows has ...
Every year, descendants of the Nama-Ovaherero tribes gather at Swakopmund Memorial Park Cemetery in Namibia during the month of March to pay tribute to their ancestors who were victims of the gen...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/05/paying-tribute-to-the-victims-of-genocide-in-namibia/
The 37th Edition of the book fair is particularly special this year for several reasons. For one, it was organized by Zahia Jouirou, an academic, researcher, and head of the Tunis Translation Ins...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/05/the-37th-edition-of-tunis-international-book-fair-not-that-fair/
In our Nonviolent Journalism course, 2023, we set participants the task of producing a photostory on a topic of their choosing. Rosemary’s story, below, is a glimpse into the lives of ordinary ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/05/a-day-in-the-lives-of-communities-living-in-rural-namibia/
The notion of identity evolves over time, according to the experiences and groups to which one belongs. It is made up of both what the individual creates and what others attribute. The Punic, Van...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/04/amazigh-spark-identity-and-belonging/
Before anything else, who is the author of this book, George Balarezo? Born in the USA, George Balarezo, known as the intrepid global citizen, is an expat who has been living in South Korea for t...
From 27-29 April, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) will hold its 23rd World Congress in Mombasa, Kenya. Sessions will highlight and link the health consequen...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/04/from-darkness-to-light-23rd-ippnw-world-congress/
In response to the country’s worst drought on record, the Tunisian national water distribution company has declared that it will be cutting off water supply to citizens for seven hours a night ...
Ex-Footballer’s livestream self-immolation following a ‘banana sale dispute’ wreaks havoc in Hafuz, Tunisia. Ex-football player, Nizar Issaoui died on Thursday, April 13th, after he poured ...
Who would have expected that the BRICS nations could rise as the potential rival of the G7 countries, the World Bank and the IMF combined? But that once seemingly distant possibility now has real...
The adage “water is life” is a distant aspiration for many rural communities in Namibia who are still drinking water not fit for human consumption. The sources are mostly hand-dug wells, ea...
Access to quality water is crucial for both human health and economic welfare. However, many towns in Namibia are facing a water crisis and struggling to provide clean and safe drinking water to ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/04/namibias-contaminated-water-crisis/
Following the resumption of Tunisian parliamentary activities on March 13th, 2023, Tunisia’s National Museum is finally about to reopen after calls from campaigners have grown more persistent. ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/04/the-bardo-national-museum-is-reopening-at-last/
Following interviews with Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva and Silo‘s speech in Punta de Vacas on May 4, 2004, we continue our series of short inspirational videos with the “message of hope for...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/04/humanity-and-hope-desmond-tutu/
A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where an estimated 1 million people have been forced to flee their homes in the past ...
The fighter for self-determination Yahya Mohamed El Hafed Iaaza was arrested and unjustly sentenced to 15 years in prison by Morocco. He was released from prison on 1 March 2023 after serving his...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/04/after-15-years-in-prison-saharawi-fighter-regains-his-freedom/
Moscow has written off more than $20 billion in debt accumulated by African countries during the Soviet era, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday. “It was not only an act of ...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/03/russia-writes-off-more-than-20-billion-in-african-debt/
On March 16, 2023, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced—during his visit to Niger—that the United States government will provide $150 million in aid to the Sahel region of Africa...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/03/the-long-arm-of-washington-extends-into-africas-sahel/
From Cutro to Riace, from Mexico to Greece, from makeshift camps to detention centers: the current history of migration is riddled with contradictions, inefficiencies and hypocrisy. According to ...
Hope, excitement and optimism are just a few of the terms that have animated the political discourse in Tunisia after the 2011 revolution. However, with a perpetual economic degradation that was ...
In this exclusive interview, Florbela Malaquias, leader of the Humanist Party of Angola (PHA), refers to the importance of a “humanized” world. The politician, lawyer and activist is also the...
Late yesterday evening, EMERGENCY’s Life Support ship received a report of a boat in distress in international waters off Libya. The ship’s captain immediately informed all relevant authorit...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/03/life-support-rescues-105-people-safe-harbor-assigned-brindisi/
Niger announced on Thursday that it will join the United Nations Water Convention, as neighbouring Cameroon and Chad have already done, and Nigeria is expected to join as well, to advance the pro...
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/03/international-protection-for-lake-chad-advances/
The Moroccan occupation authorities arrested five prominent Saharawi activists at a checkpoint north of El Ayoun. They were held for hours before being allowed to continue on their way to their h...