Africa Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/category/africa/ My take on our world Tue, 25 Apr 2017 02:14:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.heatherhastie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-tweetkiwi-512px-32x32.png Africa Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/category/africa/ 32 32 Making Excuses for Islam and FGM https://www.heatherhastie.com/making-excuses-islam-fgm/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/making-excuses-islam-fgm/#comments Tue, 25 Apr 2017 02:14:23 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=3913 Across the world, around 200 million women and girls in thirty countries are the victims of female genital mutilation (FGM). Most of them become victims of the practice before they are old enough to object. A majority of the victims are Muslim but likewise, a majority of Muslims don’t practice FGM. However, within those Muslim […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/making-excuses-islam-fgm/feed/ 29 The Cutting Tradition: A Film About FGM https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-cutting-tradition-a-film-about-fgm/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-cutting-tradition-a-film-about-fgm/#comments Tue, 31 May 2016 02:19:07 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=2466 I’ve spent most of the day watching videos about female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female circumcision or female genital cutting (FGC), as preparation for a post I plan to do about the topic. I found one particularly good video I want to share with you now. It was commissioned back in 2012 by […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-cutting-tradition-a-film-about-fgm/feed/ 29 African Servals Get A Second Chance https://www.heatherhastie.com/african-servals-get-a-second-chance/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/african-servals-get-a-second-chance/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:29:28 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=2299 African Servals (Leptailurus serval) are beautiful cats and extremely successful hunters, which are currently doing well on most of the African continent. However, because of habitat loss and poaching, their numbers are declining in South Africa and they are extinct in the southern part of the country. Therefore a wild life sanctuary there has been […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/african-servals-get-a-second-chance/feed/ 7 Winner of the Week – 18 October 2015: REST, Namibia https://www.heatherhastie.com/winner-of-the-week-18-october-2015-rest-namibia/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/winner-of-the-week-18-october-2015-rest-namibia/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:46:40 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=1538 Yesterday I got this great video from Amy Carparelli (@AmyAmylou1993) on Twitter. It’s about the Rare and Endangered Species Trust (REST) in Namibia and the work they’re doing with the pangolin or scaly anteater. If you check out their Facebook page, you’ll see some of the other excellent work they’re doing as well, most recently […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/winner-of-the-week-18-october-2015-rest-namibia/feed/ 6 Winner of the Week – 11 October 2015: Guinea, Sierra Leone & Liberia Free of Ebola https://www.heatherhastie.com/winner-of-the-week-11-october-2015-guinea-sierra-leone-liberia-free-of-ebola/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/winner-of-the-week-11-october-2015-guinea-sierra-leone-liberia-free-of-ebola/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2015 23:20:28 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=1508 Fantastic news! Neither Guinea, Sierra Leone nor Liberia has had any new Ebola cases for almost two weeks. This is the second time Liberia has been declared disease-free, but they had a flare-up in June which set them back. Now though, it looks like they’ve finally got the all clear. As it stands now: Liberia: […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/winner-of-the-week-11-october-2015-guinea-sierra-leone-liberia-free-of-ebola/feed/ 4 The War Against Boko Haram https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-war-against-boko-haram/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-war-against-boko-haram/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2015 04:47:10 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=747 Two days ago Vice News released a short documentary filmed in March. Their reporter Kaj Larsen was embedded with the Nigerian Army as they battled Boko Haram and freed the town of Bama from occupation. In an attempt to increase his popularity leading up to the election, President Jonathan had finally given the army the […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-war-against-boko-haram/feed/ 13 Boko Haram: The Scourge of Nigeria https://www.heatherhastie.com/boko-haram-the-scourge-of-nigeria/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/boko-haram-the-scourge-of-nigeria/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2015 05:22:29 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=719 It’s been just over a year since 219 girls were kidnapped from a school in Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria by Boko Haram. That atrocity prompted the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Those girls still aren’t home, although there has been a report that some were seen in Gwoza just three weeks ago. (More on the significance of that […]

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