Run or Hide: The Crackdown on Homosexuals in Tanzania
Homosexuals in Tanzania are forced to live a life of secrecy and danger, and their plight may be recognized too late.
Homosexuals in Tanzania are forced to live a life of secrecy and danger, and their plight may be recognized too late.
Some have attributed homework – not the rise of addictive social media, the ubiquity of technological devices that are causing the downfall of social interaction, not bullying – as the reason for a rise in anxiety and depression in young people.
When corruption, incompetence, and sheer lack of funding cripple those forces, what we are left with is teenagers thrusting broken glass bottles into the stomachs of other innocent teens through some misguided sense of vengeance.
It involves two-pound metal disks shaped like a chocolate lava cake, clay pits affixed with packets of gunpowder, and beer. Lots of beer.
Benoit Quennedey, unless his entire official existence within the French government is some sort of sleight of hand, comes off as Maxwell Smart blended with Inspector Clouseau meets Dick Steele.
Not even eight years after its independence, the future of the young nation of South Sudan is already in doubt.
Those in power now are not eager to see the nation improve, and the tyranny that Libyans now live in manifests itself as a nation ruled by fragmented government factions, organized criminals, and terrorists bent on radicalizing the disenfranchised living within the nation’s borders.
When five-year-olds are taking their own lives , it is tough to argue the optimistic side of the debate. Which may mean that the increased trend in adolescent suicide is, unfortunately, a new normal.
One must consider that these realities are not mutually exclusive. In post-apartheid Africa, few things are ever black and white.
The nation has been embroiled in a civil war that has raged on since 2013, only two years after the nation was established.