Conflict

Gukurahundi: Can The man accused of opening the wounds heal them?

In 1983, Nqobizitha Mhlaleri was ten years old when a bloody massacre in western Zimbabwe destroyed his community and left him an orphan.“I was made to step on dead bodies including my parents’,” he says, now aged 46. “The soldiers were ...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

South Sudan Conflict Threatens Wildlife

Bire Kpatous is one of South Sudan’s game reserves that has survived the country’s civil war but is now increasingly threatened by poachers and encroaching human settlements, like the rest of the parks. “When poachers come and are well-a...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Burundian Refugee Escapes Conflict at Home to Create Art in Rwanda

Mike Katihabuga and Djamal Ntagara are two visual artists who met in Rwanda in 2017. Katihabuga had escaped Burundi at the height of the conflict in 2015. He found refuge in Rwanda and lived in a refugee camp before moving to the capital...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

What it will take to end civil war in the Central African Republic

In recent months, Central African politicians and journalists have shared images of the military posing in front of different town signs – seemingly as proof of the state regaining control over a country caught up in civil war for almost...

Tim Glawion ·over 2 years ago

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