This first week in DRCongo has been a steep learning curve. I was not too sure what to expect in North and South Kivu, but now I have a few adjectives to describe the place. It is aggressive, breath-taking beautiful, warmhearted and because of that, heart-breaking. * I went on a trip to Bukavu… [Read more…]
June 10, 2010
So there I am, on my way to East Africa for the first time and starting my exploration the tough way: Eastern DRCongo no less. Well to be perfectly honest I am spending the weekend in Nairobi with a friend before flying to Kigali, but after these two days in relative modernity, it will be all… [Read more…]
May 5, 2010
My mind wondering between What has been What is What will be Of this city For me, for friendship, for love. The possibilities of a life long gone. Revealing the urban essence of a place I know only through the prism of passion. The fresh white air of the morning Reminiscent of youthful end of… [Read more…]
March 16, 2010
As published in The Samosa Rejected by the rest of the Tamil population and ignored by the Sinhalese authorities, tea workers who migrated from Tamil Nadu centuries ago are exploited in the plantations of the Sri Lankan highlands. Melanie Gouby reports. Her hands are cut and swollen from years of hard labour on the steep slopes… [Read more…]
March 9, 2010
As published on the Institute for War and Peace Reporting website By Melanie Gouby The arrest of two key Rwandan rebels in Germany has done little to halt attacks by the group they led in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, according to human rights groups. Ignace Murwanashyaka and Straton Musoni, leaders of the Democratic Forces for… [Read more…]
March 4, 2010
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As published in The Samosa By Melanie Gouby Often, French political and societal issues create more debate abroad than on their own soil. The proposed partial ban on the Islamic burqa is one typical example, and as on so many occasions, it has largely been misread by foreign commentators. Racism, feminism, multiculturalism, religion, integration, the… [Read more…]
February 27, 2010
Oh the flowers, my love, Si délicates qu’elles ne peuvent me toucher. De crainte de ne te voir Darling adorable, je ne saurai pouvoir épancher Les mensonges sous les sourires palpables, Les attentes trop souvent délaissées. A jamais transie d’une passion déroutante Les roses épinées that you send sont sans parfum, They are sand. Roses… [Read more…]
February 22, 2010
by Melanie Gouby As published on the Oxford Transitional Justice research website With the end of the war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lanka finds itself at a cross-roads: one path leads to peace and reconciliation between Sri Lanka’s ethnic communities; the other leads to dictatorship and authoritarianism.… [Read more…]
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