August, 2019

• 29 August

  Free Training for Media Practitioners with Migration Background – Application deadline looms!

  The continuing education program Digital Media for Media Practitioners with Refugee  History (Digitale Medien für Medienschaffende mit Fluchtgeschichte or DMF) of the Hamburg Media School is entering its eighth round this autumn. The Hamburg Media School offers these media practitioners – regardless of their residency status – a six-month free modular course program followed by an internship in a Hamburg-based …

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• 29 August

  Gambia mourns first post-independence leader

  Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, Gambia’s first post-independence president who led the small West African country for 24 years before being deposed in a 1994 coup, has died at the age of 95, the Gambian presidency said on Tuesday. The office of President Adama Barrow, whose election in 2016 brought an end to the rule of the army officer who toppled …

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• 29 August

  Uganda relaunches its national airlines after 18 years

  After being grounded for 18 years, Uganda Airlines has taken to the skies again, restoring its status as the country’s national carrier Uganda Airlines launched its maiden flight on Tuesday (27 August) after eighteen years in the doldrums. The airline thus becomes the fifth national carrier in the region. Uganda Airlines will initially fly to seven destinations in Kenya, Tanzania, …

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• 29 August

  Aminata Touré elected Vice President of Schleswig-Holstein parliament

  Aminata Touré was on Wednesday (28 August) elected the new Vice-President of the state parliament (Landtag) of Schleswig-Holstein. She received 46 of the 69 valid votes cast. Schleswig-Holstein is one of the 16 states of Germany and its capital city is Kiel. The 26-year-old Green party member, who is the second youngest member of parliament, said she was “fully relieved …

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• 29 August

  Opinion: The Tragedy of Institutional Religion

  Professor Jason Osai* of the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, writes on man, religion and soul and how to achieve the eternally sought-after global peace devoid of want and war. Institutional religion has divided the world along a multiplicity of jaded philosophical and theological lines thereby creating socio-cultural and economic hedgerows that have pitched husband against wife, mother against …

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• 28 August

  More than a quarter of development aid funds remains in donor countries – study reveals

  More than 25 percent of development aid funds are not spent in developing countries, according to a new study, which shows that expenditure on refugees in Germany takes increasing share of overseas assistance. Researchers warn of the risks of this policy. A significant part of funds for development aid is spent by rich donors within their own borders. This is …

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• 28 August

  75 African films to be screened in Cologne

  The full programme of a premier event celebrating the African cinema in Germany has been published by its organizers, FilmInitiativ Köln e.V. From 19 to 29 September, the 17th Africa Film Festival Cologne will present around 75 films from 23 African countries. About 30 international guests have been invited to discuss the topical issue “Fundamentalism and Migration”, the theme of …

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• 28 August

  Tuition fees fuel concern among foreign students in Germany

  Baden-Württemberg passed a law requiring non-EU students to pay €1,500 ($1,700) per semester in tuition fees. It came into effect in October 2017. Consequently, seven universities in the state lost a third of their international students that year.

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• 28 August

  EXCLUSIVE! Nigerian deportees from Germany narrate their tales of woe in Lagos

  Our Correspondent in Nigeria, Raphael Adenaike, was at the Lagos airport when Nigerian deportees, including a single mother of one, arrived from Germany on Monday 19 August. The deportees, whose asylum applications had been rejected, narrated their personal ordeals and experiences with the German police, immigration officials and medical doctors as well as the Nigerian Embassy to Raphael. With little …

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• 27 August

  Group blames Ndi Igbo Germany for Ekweremadu’s assault in Nuremberg

  The physical assault on Senator Ike Ekweremadu on 17 August in Nuremberg while the Nigerian frontline politician was attending the 2nd Annual Igbo Cultural Day continues to generate controversy in Nigeria. Kinsmen of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, for example, have called for the thorough investigation, arrest and prosecution of the people, alleged to be members of the separatist Indigenous People of …

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