Government officials in many African countries simply refuse to retire. In office for three, four and sometimes five decades, aged civil servants continue to hang on to their positions.
Because they are “whites” born of black parents, albinos face discrimination every day and struggle to find love.
In Jay Town – that’s Jos, Nigeria, for the uninitiated – hip-hop talents and enthusiasts converge on Basement Studios.
This coming year is an important one for RNW. A year in which, at the age of 65, we will be reinventing ourselves. Our new Editor-in-Chief William Valkenburg officially begins today; he looks to what lies ahead of us in 2013.
According to recent research by the Yemen Poll Center the right to education is considered the most important human right. For many in Yemen, this means the right to go to university.
RNW’s Love Matters project is dedicated to issues around sexual rights. It aims to take an open, honest and non-judgemental “Dutch” approach to sex and sexuality.
“People are prejudiced because they don’t know anyone from a minority group,” says 25-year-old Egyptian Ahmed Zidan.
Freedom for his homeland. That’s the dream of journalist Fasil Yenealem. From a ramshackle self-built studio in Amsterdam he’s striving to do what he can no longer do from Ethiopia: bring independent news to his country.
Information about sexual and reproductive health is hard to come by for Zimbabwean adolescents who live on the streets.
Some might call the Moroccan artist Mohamed Mourabiti a breast man. But the half-cupped forms he is fond of depicting are not so much inspired by the female chest as they are by the domes of Marrakesh’s ubiquitous mosques.