resettlement
Mbuti Suffer in Refugee Camps
The Mbuti of eastern Congo are living in desperate conditions, in squalid refugee camps, according to a news release last week from UNHCR, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Bylined Goma, capital of the North Kivu Province, the story is most depressing: the Mbuti appear to be suffering from the effects […]
Nubian Elders Still Miss the Old Life
Al-Masry Al-Youm, an independent Egyptian daily paper, published two stories last Friday about the Nubian people and their forced move out of the Nile Valley when the Aswan High Dam was completed. One, titled “Old Nubia, Paradise Lost,” consists of an interview with Sharaf Abdel Karim, head of the Nubian Heritage Association. It took place […]
Confirmed: Botswana Persecutes San People for Diamonds
An anonymous former Botswana official has admitted that his government ousted the G/wi and G//ana people from their homes in 2002 in order to expedite a proposed diamond mining project. According to an article in the current issue of Dissident Voice: A Radical Newsletter in the Struggle for Peace and Justice, the highly-placed official told […]
Egyptian President Pledges to Help Nubians
President Hosni Mubarak toured Aswan Province in Upper Egypt last Wednesday and made conciliatory comments about the rights of the Nubian people. In a television interview, he said he had issued directives to his government to support the Nubians and remove obstacles against them. He said that the plans his government had formed to resettle […]
Nubian Society Discussed by the BBC
BBC News last week ran a story on the 50th anniversary commemoration of the worldwide effort led by UNESCO to save the ancient monuments in Nubia from the rising waters of Lake Nasser. In April 1959, Egypt made an international appeal for assistance in saving the remains of Nubian civilization, claiming that the monuments belonged […]
Nubian Villages under Construction
The Cairo press has once again featured the Nubian desire to live near the Nile River in Upper Egypt. An article last week in the Daily News Egypt indicates that some Nubians, exiled nearly half a century ago from their homes before the construction of the Aswan High Dam, are still eager to resume farming […]
Nubian Conference Gains a Promise of a New Homeland
The Nubians are finally making some progress in their quest to have the right to return to villages along the Nile—or at least around the dammed reservoir called Lake Nasser. An important conference held two weeks ago in Aswan included Nubians plus officials from such government ministries as Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Irrigation and Water […]
Nubian Discontent Continues
The difficulties faced by Nubian refugees settled in so-called “New Nubia”—people exiled from Old Nubia when the Egyptian government closed the Aswan Dam—are getting more international attention. The growing international entertainment and news website Monsters and Critics.com carried a story on Sunday about the conditions the resettled Nubians have to deal with, their struggles to […]
Empty Promises to the Nubians
A conference titled “ Nubia between Resettlement and Development,” held in Cairo in April, revealed only a portion of the continuing resentment among the Nubians. An article in the Jordanian paper Al-Dustour, which prompted a story in this website at the beginning of May, was evidently only part of the media frenzy that accompanied the […]
Nubians Ask for Their Rights
Houses that the Egyptian government constructed for the Nubian people after it flooded their land for the Aswan Dam in the early 1960s are apparently now on the verge of collapse. Nubians attending a conference titled “ Nubia between Resettlement and Development” charged that their homes are in danger because they were built on loamy […]
