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Report on Gender-based violence

Any discussion of leading lines naturally leads to talk about perspective and vanishing points. When you use the curb of a city sidewalk as a leading line, you inevitably end up with the curb of the opposite side of the street, as well as the roofs of the buildings and all the floors and balconies. If you are taking a photo along the street, you’ll notice that they all lead towards a single point: The vanishing point. If you stand diagonally across a building, you’ll be looking down two streets, and end up with two vanishing points.

Vanishing points are the terminals, the periods at the end of the sentence. Without them, your eyes are led down an incomplete path. What you put at the end of that road if up to you. Your central subject, perhaps?

Given that background and terminology, we can move forward to assembling these pieces together into a photograph. Let’s say you have your focal point, leading lines, or vanishing point. Where do you put them in your photo? Speaking very technically and prescriptively, there are two places to put these areas of focus, and choosing which depends on the story you want to tell.

The first is smack-dab in the middle. Center it, and create symmetry around it. You can center either vertically or horizontally or both. Centering along

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Burundi : ils ont tué la démocratie

L’annonce d'un troisième mandat du président Pierre Nkurunziza a plongé le Burundi dans la crise : cette candidature, jugée anticonstitutionnelle, est violemment contestée par des millers d'opposants...

A great documentary which explains the past month of protests, Coup d’Etat and general unrest in Burundi. If anything this short film illustrates the Burundian people’s will to stand up for their hard earned democracy.

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Zedi Feruzi leader of an opposition party in Burundi shot dead on Saturday night. No details on who the perpetrators are, though reports that the police took over an hour to respond puts the police's involvement into question. This as the third week of manifestations comes too an end in the capital city which has come to a standstill. Schools and most shops remain closed, as those who aren't in the streets protest from home by slowing down all economic activity.

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Burundi general announces overthrow of president

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Coup d'État in Burundi

General Niyombare Godfroid announces on the radio that Pierre Nkurunziza president of Burundi has been overthrown. After several days of protest by civil society over a third presidential term. More information to come.

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Burundi Standoff Threatens Central African Stability |  Heidi Vogt

NAIROBI, Kenya—A standoff in Burundi between protesters and a president trying to flout constitutional term limits is threatening to destabilize a precarious part of Central Africa.

In the nearly two weeks since Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would run for a third term, the capital Bujumbura has erupted into violent protests, leaving about a dozen people dead. Nearly 40,000 Burundians have fled the country since mid-April because of pre-election intimidation, the United Nations said.

“If this crisis lasts, it is going to trigger a new refugee crisis in the region and with the refugees come also the armed groups on the borders,” said Thierry Vircoulon, head of Central Africa for Brussels-based think tank International Crisis Group.

FULL ARTICLE (via The Wall Street Journal)

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Source: The Wall Street Journal

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S. Africa’s opposition party elects first black leader

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Everything you wanted to know about the British election, but were afraid to ask

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(via ▶ Keeping It Real With Adeola - 164 (NNPC & The Missing $20 Billion; Chaos In Burundi) - YouTube)

SaharaTV, a comedic african online news channel that discusses serious African news in a witty and intelligent manner giving an African perspective on current affairs. Very entertaining whilst remaining informative, more of this type of content should be come from the continent

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(via france 24 - Exclusive: The aid worker who revealed the French army’s ‘sex abuse’ in Central Africa - France 24)

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As for broader issues, she says that “race is a present thing in America, and it isn’t in Nigeria.” But gender is a problem in her homeland. She recounts how, when she recently walked into a grocery store with her brother there, the security guard at the entrance only greeted him. “I was not in a good mood, so I said, ‘This has to change. You have to greet the both of us.’” The difficulty, she says, is that “the invisibility of the female” is part of Nigerian culture. At the TED conference in 2013, Ms. Adichie gave a now-famous talk titled, “We Should All Be Feminists.” (The singer Beyoncé quoted it in her song “Flawless.”) “My version of feminism means acknowledging that women have and continue to have gotten the bad end of things, politically and socially, all over the world,” she says. “Feminism means not only acknowledging that, but wanting to make it better.”

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(Kerry warns Burundi leader's third term bid is unconstitutional | Daily Mail Online)

International community now explicitly expressing their disapproval of the third term for Nkurunziza. This as tensions are heightened with more deadly protests taking place in the Capital. 

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At least 350 foreigners have been killed in South Africa since 2008

As the South African government scrambles to contain a spate of xenophobic violence, mostly aimed at poor migrants from other African countries, researchers are pointing to a culture of impunity as a worrying factor in the unrest.

Take, for example, the case of Ernesto Nhamuave, a Mozambican man beaten, stabbed and burned alive by a mob in a squatter camp near Johannesburg during a wave of anti-foreigner attacks in 2008.

Photographs of Nhamuave’s horrific death made headlines around the world, and became a dominant image of the violence that displaced 100,000 and left 62 dead.

But no one was ever arrested for Nhamuave’s murder, with the official reason being that there were no suspects and no witnesses. Yet when a South African journalist visited the site of the murder earlier this year, he found an eyewitness who quickly pointed out the main suspects.

Read on here…

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President Goodluck Jonathan is apparently using the strongest of measures to defeat Boko Haram before he leaves office. It's a shame it seems his legacy needed to be at play for big advances to be made.

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Hundreds of students seek refuge at US embassy in Burundi University students in Bujumbura fear for their security as the government sends them home from the university campus. This is possibly a way to prevent mass organization of young protesters amid turmoil over a third term for the incumbent President Pierre Nkurunziza.