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By 2020, 60 million people from sub-Saharan Africa are expected to migrate because of desertification. The Great Green Wall is a $8bn project restoring degraded land. But will it encourage people to stay or earn the money to go?  (....) To encourage men like Ndiaga and their children to stay in their countries of birth, the World Bank, the EU and other international donors and development organisations are banking on gardens like this one. It is part of the Great Green Wall, an $8bn 4,000-mile effort to stymie the environmental devastation of climate change and the human misery that comes with it. This orderly garden isn’t just a local source of money and food, it’s also one link in an ambitious continent-wide chain seeking to reshape opportunities and stave off the wreckage of climate change. While donors hope the project will encourage would-be migrants to enjoy better conditions at home, some migration experts say such development policies might have the opposite effect....

Wellicht voor diegene die veel Afrikaanse cliënten hebben en / of gek zijn op geschiedenisverhalen een stukje overgenomen van mijn boekenblog: Timbuktu rings a bell for all of us who were raised with the Donald Duck. When Donald had done something wrong and he had to race to a place as far remote as possible it was Timbuktu. In newer versions it is the North Pole I believe. But still I knew the name before hearing of it famous past.   In 1825, Alexander Gordon Laing set out to become the first European to reach the city of Timbuktu since the Middle Ages. This “lively and informative” history ( The Washington Post ) traces his death-defying 2,000-mile journey.   Amazon writes: In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers––and fortune hunters––than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by Europeans since the Middle Ages, held the promise of wealth and fam...

The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), an international organisation with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. ICMPD is currently recruiting for the positions and/or internships listed below. Under "Details" you will find the job description for the relevant vacancy and a possibility to apply for the position online. Interested applicants must register in order to apply for a position with ICMPD and are required to use the EuropeAid CV Format .  Recruitment starts immediately upon publication of the vacancy announcements. As posts may be filled already before the indicated application deadline, we encourage you to submit your application early. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted. VA15P011V01 Senior Project Manager Project title: Support to the Africa-EU Migration and Mobility Dialogue (MMD) Job Location: Vienna, Austria (with regular travel) Duration: 1 year renewable - full time Closing Date: 05 A...

Albinos are seen as curses, or 'ghosts' who can be wiped off the face of the earth, in many part of Tanzania, and across Africa. Albinism is a hereditary genetic condition which causes a total absence of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes, albinism affects one Tanzanian in 1,400, often as a result of inbreeding in remote and rural communities, experts say. In the West, it affects just one person in 20,000.   Families are often told to kill the children at birth. Yet, conversely, their body parts are highly prized. But Josephat Torner sees the two as being intrinsically linked. 'The killings and attacks is the outcome of the stigma and discrimination. If you respect me, you won't think of me as a commodity,' he said.  Witch doctors claim albino body parts are capable of bringing riches, power and success, if used in potions, while a UN report report into the trade revealed miners used the bone as amulets, or would bury them where they ...

Henning Mankell: Mystery man opens a new chapter In his latest novel, master of Nordic noir Henning Mankell explores the plight of African refugees in an often hostile Europe. But he still can't escape the shadow of Wallander, discovers James Kidd Henning Mankell's new novel, The Shadow Girls, is many things. An absurdist account of a midlife crisis. A portrait of an artist as a politically ignorant man. A scathing depiction of immigration in 21st-century Europe. An old book (it was published in Sweden in 2001) in a new one's clothing. One thing The Shadow Girls most definitely is not is a crime novel. When I ask 64-year-old Mankell himself whether he thinks the story will surprise readers who know him primarily as the creator of Kurt Wallander, he pauses. "That was the idea," he says evenly, before sighing. "The truth is that 25 per cent of what I have written is crime fiction. Seventy-five per cent is something else. You could say Wallander is a moto...