Various feeds from Uganda's "Red Pepper", the "Patriotic Vanguard", Senegambia News, and "African Press International" have all just been added to the very, very big batch of widget-based RSS feeds of news from Africa. Separately, a widget dedicated to various, somewhat-overlapping "Bor Globe" feeds has been added to the almost-as-big batch of Sudan-related RSS feeds. - EJM
The second widget within the very, very big batch of RSS feeds of news from Africa now includes many primary or overall feeds from South African news sites (and related blog sites). Some of the feeds (i.e., the ones from the "Mail & Guardian"/"Thought Leader", IOL, News24, the "[Sunday] Times", the SABC, and the "Citizen") are from sites that are still included (with separate, category- or tag-/keyword-based feeds) in the first widget, while others (i.e., the ones from the Pietermaritzburg "Witness", the "Sowetan", and the Port Elizabeth "Herald") are from sites that had not been included previously and a few (i.e., the ones from Polity, iafrica, and Politicsweb) are feeds that were previously included in the first widget.
Separately, feeds from The Gambia's "Observer", the UK's "Telegraph", David Axe's new "From the Frontline" blog, Cédric Kalonji's blog, Pauline Bax's blog, Neil McCartney's blog, South Africa's "Legalbrief", and South Africa's Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) have also been added to that batch.
Also, the almost-as-big batch of widget-based, Sudan-related RSS feeds now includes feeds from the "Telegraph", the "Scotsman", Sisterhood for Peace, and the San Antonio Interfaith Darfur Coalition. - EJM
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In Darfur, a region in western Sudan approximately the size of Texas, over a million people are threatened with torture and death at the hands of marauding militia and a complicit government. Genocide evokes not only the moral, but also, the legal responsibility of the world community. Under international agreement, a nation must intervene to stop a genocide when it is officially acknowledged.
"Officially" is the key word here. So far, no nation in the international community has "officially" acknowledged the truth: Sudan is a bleeding ground of genocide. In this void, the Sudanese government continues to act with brutal impunity.
Thankfully, there are individuals working in human rights organizations who are watching - and witnessing - and organizing, in support of the victims in Darfur. These individuals represent, for all of us, a personal capacity to bear witness to the passion of the present; one candle lit against the darkness.
However, before one can light a candle, someone has to strike a match: a donation to any of the human rights organizations active in Sudan, contacting your government representative, local newspaper, radio and t.v. station. Our individual activism is essential for the candlepower of witness to overcome and extinguish the firepower of genocide.
This world has long endured wars that take lives. Let us be part of one that saves them.
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