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African Voices: Episode 19!
Top news stories from Chicago and the African continent;
Upcoming events;
Advice Box: Healthcare for Cabdrivers
Recipe: Fraga Moçambicana (Chicken Mozambique)
If you would like to contribute news, events, issues, interviews or music to our podcast, email us: [email protected] or call: (312) 949 9980 between 9am-5pm, Mon-Fri. To support our work through donations, click here!
We’re back with African Voices, episode 19! In this episode, we feature local Chicago news, news from the African continent, and upcoming events. We also discuss key findings in our African Cabdrivers Health Survey and enrolling into CountyCare, and how to make Fraga Macambicana, or Chicken Mozambique.
Local News:
African Summit Round-Up!
Congressman Bobby L. Rush in his keynote address at the 7th Annual Chicago African Summit and Resource Fair spoke about his work in shaping U.S.- Africa trade relations, strengthening business ties, and stressed the importance of maintaining the Diversity Visa Program in the comprehensive immigration reform bill (CIR).
UAO would like to thank our panelists who provided in-depth perspectives on key policies that affect the African immigrant and refugee community, our resource fair participants, Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies for allowing us to use the space, Yassa African Restaurant for lunch, and you for being there!
African News:
Kenya: Kenyans rally against members of parliament pay hike.
Kenyan demonstrators have paraded a giant papier-mache pig doused in animal blood outside parliament in protest against wage increases for newly elected politicians.
A few hundred placard-waving “Occupy Parliament” protesters smashed the pig at the gates of parliament on Tuesday, pouring animal blood over it and themselves and chanting slogans demanding MPs cut their pay.
Protesters also waved fake banknotes and placards with the slogan “MPigs”. Banners reading “I’m your employer!” and “Help the needy, not the greedy,” were held at the demonstration.
About 200 activists marched to parliament while castigating the members, locally known as MPigs, for their “greed.”
Last month Kenyan MPs voted themselves a pay rise despite orders from the national salaries commission to cut salaries, making their wages some of the highest in the world.
Armed police
Politicians also defied pleas from President Uhuru Kenyatta in boosting their pay back to $10,000 a month, returning it to the rate it had been before a cut of almost 40 percent was put in place under the previous parliament.
“Kenyans are not willing to pay for the rise,” said one of the demonstration’s organisers, Florence Kanyua.
“The teachers, the police, the doctors, the nurses are poorly paid…. But the MPs don’t think about those issues.”
Dozens of police armed with batons, helmets and tear gas were deployed around the parliament in the centre of Nairobi, but the event passed peacefully.
“Most Kenyans live in extreme poverty,” said Kenyan academic and expert on constitutional law Yash Pal Ghai, noting that increasing legislators’ salaries would add to already heavy public debt.
“The economy of this country cannot afford it,” said Khelef Khalifa, chairman of the Muslims for Human Rights organisation.
Tuesday’s protest follows a demonstration last month in which live piglets were released outside parliament.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/06/2013611163115482543.html
Mali: UN prepares for Mali force deployment
The UN is preparing to start deploying a new peacekeeping force in Mali on schedule in three weeks, even though the security situation in the north remains “complex and volatile”, the UN chief has said.
Ban Ki-moon’s statement on Monday came amid reports that a Malian government delegation and Tuareg MNLA rebels had reached an agreement “in principle” that would all[...]
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By Tara WeinbergTop news stories from Chicago and the African continent;
Upcoming events;
Advice Box: Healthcare for Cabdrivers
Recipe: Fraga Moçambicana (Chicken Mozambique)
If you would like to contribute news, events, issues, interviews or music to our podcast, email us: [email protected] or call: (312) 949 9980 between 9am-5pm, Mon-Fri. To support our work through donations, click here!
We’re back with African Voices, episode 19! In this episode, we feature local Chicago news, news from the African continent, and upcoming events. We also discuss key findings in our African Cabdrivers Health Survey and enrolling into CountyCare, and how to make Fraga Macambicana, or Chicken Mozambique.
Local News:
African Summit Round-Up!
Congressman Bobby L. Rush in his keynote address at the 7th Annual Chicago African Summit and Resource Fair spoke about his work in shaping U.S.- Africa trade relations, strengthening business ties, and stressed the importance of maintaining the Diversity Visa Program in the comprehensive immigration reform bill (CIR).
UAO would like to thank our panelists who provided in-depth perspectives on key policies that affect the African immigrant and refugee community, our resource fair participants, Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies for allowing us to use the space, Yassa African Restaurant for lunch, and you for being there!
African News:
Kenya: Kenyans rally against members of parliament pay hike.
Kenyan demonstrators have paraded a giant papier-mache pig doused in animal blood outside parliament in protest against wage increases for newly elected politicians.
A few hundred placard-waving “Occupy Parliament” protesters smashed the pig at the gates of parliament on Tuesday, pouring animal blood over it and themselves and chanting slogans demanding MPs cut their pay.
Protesters also waved fake banknotes and placards with the slogan “MPigs”. Banners reading “I’m your employer!” and “Help the needy, not the greedy,” were held at the demonstration.
About 200 activists marched to parliament while castigating the members, locally known as MPigs, for their “greed.”
Last month Kenyan MPs voted themselves a pay rise despite orders from the national salaries commission to cut salaries, making their wages some of the highest in the world.
Armed police
Politicians also defied pleas from President Uhuru Kenyatta in boosting their pay back to $10,000 a month, returning it to the rate it had been before a cut of almost 40 percent was put in place under the previous parliament.
“Kenyans are not willing to pay for the rise,” said one of the demonstration’s organisers, Florence Kanyua.
“The teachers, the police, the doctors, the nurses are poorly paid…. But the MPs don’t think about those issues.”
Dozens of police armed with batons, helmets and tear gas were deployed around the parliament in the centre of Nairobi, but the event passed peacefully.
“Most Kenyans live in extreme poverty,” said Kenyan academic and expert on constitutional law Yash Pal Ghai, noting that increasing legislators’ salaries would add to already heavy public debt.
“The economy of this country cannot afford it,” said Khelef Khalifa, chairman of the Muslims for Human Rights organisation.
Tuesday’s protest follows a demonstration last month in which live piglets were released outside parliament.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2013/06/2013611163115482543.html
Mali: UN prepares for Mali force deployment
The UN is preparing to start deploying a new peacekeeping force in Mali on schedule in three weeks, even though the security situation in the north remains “complex and volatile”, the UN chief has said.
Ban Ki-moon’s statement on Monday came amid reports that a Malian government delegation and Tuareg MNLA rebels had reached an agreement “in principle” that would all[...]