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Publication: Radio Netherlands

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Shanghai Celebrates 5th Gay Pride Festival

Unlike gay pride festivals held elsewhere in the world, Shanghai Pride’s programme doesn’t include a parade. But that doesn’t change the face that the festival actively promotes LGBT rights and the visibility of gays and lesbians.Shanghai Pride 2013 “Pride ... [Published Radio Netherlands - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Shanghai, Gay, LGBT

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Knotty cassava tubers can change Nigeria

Nigeria's cassava bread initiative is among an ambitious set of programmes designed to transform agriculture and rural livelihoods in this country of 170 million, the most populous of Africa's 55 nations. The sweeping plans include cutting corruption, ... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, Diamond Bank Nigeria Plc, Morbidity, Flour, Facilitator

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

My Song: Outspoken on 'Miss Taken Identity'

“Men don't love themselves”: a bold statement from the Zimbabwean rapper and slam poet Outspoken. In this edition of My Song, he talks about how his track 'Miss Taken Identity' not only addresses society’s treatment of women, but reveals how he himself ... [Published Radio Netherlands - 23 hours ago]

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

RNW wins top honours at the New York International Radio and TV Festival

Radio Netherlands Worldwide won four major prizes at the 2013 New York International Radio and TV Festival, it was announced yesterday (Monday June 17). It won a gold medal and a Grand Prize Award for an interview entitled “The Benghazi Blogger”.In 2011, ... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: York International Corporation, Oliver Twist, Benghazi

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Muna Shirwa: addicted to a certain type of sadness

The Wor(l)d is a series of short videos featuring spoken-word artists from around the world. Each week, RNW provides a space for young poets and rappers to share their take on our themes. In this s our contributors take as their starting point the theme ... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Sadness, Free Speech

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

Condom distribution in Rwanda's high schools

On the blog beatSunny Ntayombya is a journalist and blogger working with a Rwandan English newspaper. He has an avid interest in global socio-political affairs with a particular fascination for the issues besieging the African Great Lakes region. He lives ... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Rwanda, Sex, Abstinence, Rwamagana (Rwanda)

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 16 2013 - 1 reports

A polygamist celebrates Father's Day

Being married to more than two partners is not unusual in a number of countries today. In Africa, the practice remains common, says a paper published by the Centre for the Study of African Economics last year. The paper goes on to state that “in the 'polygamy ... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Jeune Afrique, Italy, Burkina Faso, France

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Prostitution and trafficking: wasting away African lives in Europe

In this 19th clip of the Surprising Europe video series, we learn how human trafficking and prostitution is wasting away the lives of some undocumented African migrants in Europe. Nigerian author Chika Unigwe and Burkinabé writer and director Marie Reine ... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Atrophy, Prostitution, Chika Unigwe

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Gay Zimbabwean says he has dated Zanu-PF officials

Mugabe's anti-gay stanceMugabe is known worldwide for his strong anti-gay stance. The 89-year-old veteran statesman and former guerrilla leader has branded homosexuals “worse than dogs and pigs”. The country’s new constitution, which Mugabe signed into ... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Gay, Robert Mugabe, Bulawayo, Homosexuality, ZANU-PF

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

“I never wanted to be the most wanted blogger in the hemisphere”

The most wanted Mexican blogger says she’s more afraid of the authorities than of the drugs cartels.In Mexico, the drugs cartels have become interested in the country’s bloggers. But it’s not just any type of interest. The drugs cartels have put a price ... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Cartel, Mexico, Censorship, Drugs, Organized Crime

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Will justice be done in Ivory Coast?

RNW recently spoke to Fatou Bensouda, the Gambian chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).This video is part of the Africa Desk's French-language platform to discuss the international justice case of former president of Ivory Coast ... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, International Criminal Court

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Being a traditional healer: to answer the calling or not

:55 (Photo: Kate Howells/RNW)More about:Lesego Mangwanyane is a South African radio producer who fears she hears ancestors calling her to become a sangoma. There’s always been a traditional healer in her family – and she believes there should be one – ... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Nigeria, South Africa

Quotes

"I don't believe in condoms being distributed in secondary schools... It's a no go zone. The children are, in the first place, not mature enough to know how to use condoms" Innocent Nshimiyemungu, a deputy head teacher at Lycée de Ruhengeri APICUR, told a reporter

Condom distribution in Rwanda's high schools [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 16 2013]

"I had noticed gross misuse of herbicides by peasant farmers. chemicals are not something you play with, and any misuse will one day leave you to tell the story in a bitter way. I didn't want these farmers to learn the hard way."

In Nigeria, lowering pesticide exposure risk with mobile phones [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 07 2013]

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Shanghai Celebrates 5th Gay Pride Festival [Published Radio Netherlands - 22 hours ago]
My Song: Outspoken on 'Miss Taken Identity' [Published Radio Netherlands - 23 hours ago]
Knotty cassava tubers can change Nigeria [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 18 2013]
RNW wins top honours at the New York Internatio... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 18 2013]
Muna Shirwa: addicted to a certain type of sadness [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 17 2013]
Condom distribution in Rwanda's high schools [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 16 2013]
A polygamist celebrates Father's Day [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 16 2013]
Prostitution and trafficking: wasting away Afri... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 15 2013]
Gay Zimbabwean says he has dated Zanu-PF officials [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 14 2013]
“I never wanted to be the most wanted blogger i... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 14 2013]
Will justice be done in Ivory Coast? [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 14 2013]
Being a traditional healer: to answer the calli... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 13 2013]
In Nigeria, more than good luck needed to foste... [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 13 2013]
An oasis of peace and tolerance in Yucatán [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 12 2013]
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RNW launches Love Matters in Kenya [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 08 2013]
Why Gbagbo should stay a bit more at the ICC [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 08 2013]
Jennifer Perez: with silent understanding [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 07 2013]
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The magic of African architecture [Published Radio Netherlands - Jun 06 2013]
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