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Six on Africa: No Design Schools? No Problem for This Emerging Fashion Hub; Warlord City: The Business of Fear in Boomtown Mogadishu; German Development Aid in Africa; America’s expanding ‘shadow war’ in Africa; Problem Partners, Ugly Outcomes; Africa’s Shadow Wars


No Design Schools? No Problem for This Emerging Fashion Hub

"The East African nation’s Swahili designers are overcoming the absence of a developed domestic fashion industry to increasingly take their collections of clothes woven in traditional colors and flamboyant prints to top international runways, major global boutique stores and wardrobes across the world. Only South Africa has a higher literacy rate among Africa’s 10 most populous nations, but Tanzania’s formal education system has largely bypassed fashion — the country lacks even a single major design school. But a rising breed of millennial designers is substituting the absence of that formal design education with raw skill and ambition, and is coupling an increasing global appetite for diverse designs with a desire to give back to the country, to carve out a success story."




Warlord City: The Business of Fear in Boomtown Mogadishu

"A Country that Doesn't Exist ..."

After rebels toppled dictator Siad Barre in 1991, a series of clans and warlords took power, ultimately followed by al-Shabaab. An estimated 2.5 million Somalis were displaced with about 1 million leaving the country. Up to 1.5 million died as a result of the conflict, mostly civilians. The country landed in the headlines due to piracy, kidnappings, terror attacks and famines. There really isn't a Somalia at all, anymore - at least nothing that constitutes a state, like a judiciary, a police force or even taxes."




German Development Aid in AfricaA Killing in Congo Reveals Human Cost of Conservation On August 26, rangers killed a member of the Batwa Tribe in a German-funded national park, in eastern Congo. The Batwa had lived for centuries in the park before conservationists forced them out. Is German development money putting animals before humans?






America’s expanding ‘shadow war’ in Africa

"Today, however, Congress is barely more useful than an appendix, its constitutional powers abandoned, its independence defiled. U.S. forces in Niger and elsewhere in Africa — as well as the Middle East and elsewhere — operate under the ridiculous claim that the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, passed immediately after the 9/11 attacks that sanctioned action against groups and nations that participated in that attack, somehow applies 16 years later to missions against organizations that didn’t even exist when those attacks took place.

Congress and the American people are woefully uninformed about much more than the 800-plus troops in Niger. The United States is escalating what William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, terms a “shadow war” on the African continent. According to Vice’s Nick Turse, U.S. troops are now conducting 3,500 exercises, programs and engagements per year on the African continent, according to the U.S. military’s top commander for Africa, Gen. Thomas Waldhauser. That, Turse notes, is “an astounding 1,900 percent increase since the command was activated less than a decade ago.”









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