“I personally experience public intimidation on a daily basis.” – Dutch Parisienne Rachel Wegner Warning: article contains some graphic language of a sexual nature Paris — After some days of rain, I could not be happier than to enjoy the sunshine in my favorite park 10 minutes located from my home. As I were tanning in […]

Nicholas Okumu is a teacher at a small school in Mombasa. Here he writes about the surprising rate at which public works slide into dilapidation — or destruction — in Kenya’s tourist hub. For the past one year and a half the county government of Mombasa has gone all out to upgrade the county’s infrastructure by re-carpeting roads […]

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — After hearing about Hanna Lalango’s story, I immediately joined the #JusticeForHanna campaign and began raising awareness against gender-based violence. I was committed to making Addis Ababa a safer place for everyone. My only problem was that I campaigned heavily for other people’s safety, but I somehow completely forget about my own. […]

PARIS – This is the first Sunday after the terrorist shootings in Paris. The French government decided to launch a large-scale solidarity rally to show support for the victims of the extremist attacks. However, one may wonder whether it would be safe to go into with a large crowd. Would it also become the target of terrorist […]

After years of intensive smoking of cigarettes since 1979, James Mogga, a gardener with one of the hotels in Juba, South Sudan said he left smoking in 1989 in Oliji, a refugee camp in Adjumani, northern Uganda. He shares his experience as explained to the New Nation how he began smoking in 1979 during Amin’s […]