Wherever you go and you do not see an Eastern African man, you should run
The tragedy of displacement in Africa is so twisted. After riots and violence in the Tanzania elections of October 2000, 2,000 of the country’s citizens fled from the island of Pemba, most taking refuge in an at-war Mogadishu. ILLUSTRATION | JOSEPH NYAGAH | NMG
Last year, there was a type of morbid tourism in East African Community Chairperson President Salva Kiir’s country, that was not reported on.
After the civil war in their northern neighbour Sudan between two rival factions of the military government under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and former ally, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the Janjaweed leader, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (more popularly known as Hemedti) broke out on April 15, 2023, a humanitarian crisis followed inevitably.
