Articles by Rais Neza Boneza
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The Escalating Conflict in the Sahel: A Geopolitical Quagmire
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – The Sahel, this vast arid region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, which has long been a battleground for various forces, shows no signs of abating. Instead, it is intensifying, drawing in both regional and global powers in a struggle that is as much about resources as it is about ideology and control.
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Unveiling New Caledonia’s Strife: A Current Misrepresented Anti-Colonial Struggle
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
21 Jun 2024 – New Caledonia, an archipelago near Australia, has been experiencing significant unrest recently. Media coverage has often framed the situation simplistically as an anti-white conflict, but the reality is far beyond a racialized friction. To truly understand…
→ read full articleFrom Port-aux-Prince to Africa: Unveiling the Haitian Crisis
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
The narrative of cannibal gangs ruling Haiti is as shocking as it is misleading, drawing attention away from the complex socio-political dynamics at play. Haiti’s turmoil cannot be isolated from the global context; it shares the same root causes with conflicts in the Sahel region, the DRC, and around the Global South.
→ read full articleIn Memory of Prof. Johan V. Galtung
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
A friend, a father, a mentor to many,
His wisdom transcended, like a beacon, so plenty.
As the founding father of Peace studies,
He nurtured minds, spreading love and unity.
Samaria
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
In Solidarity with Palestine – 11 Nov 2023
→ read full article3 Cs: Corruption, COVID-19, Conflict… Only the Tip of the Iceberg in the D.R. Congo
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
13 Jun 2020 – Two years ago, remembering the elections followed by concocted shadowy deals, the D.R. Congo celebrated a soundly first-time peaceful transfer of power in its 40 years of independence.
→ read full articleFrom Kabila to Tshisekedi and Peacefully! The Congo Holds Its Breath
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
25 Jan 2019 – Today at 2 p.m. the members of the Constitutional Court sworn in the fifth President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi. It is a new era for some or continuity for others, but for sure it is a new chapter in Congo’s history. Between the euphoria of joy and consternations, the DRC holds its breath.
→ read full articleBuilding Resilience Far from Home: Communal Democracy Practices amongst Urban Congolese Refugees in Uganda
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
It is possible for solution to germinate from within by working as one voice despite the differences and challenges; we reconcile and heal. This is the a testimony of resilience by displaced or sometime segregated people showed to us by the Congolese Refugee Community in deep Katwe suburb in Uganda, far from home; the very “Democratic republic of the Congo”.
→ read full articleFrom Negative Leadership to Healing Leadership: A Therapy Strategy to Remedy African Instability
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
For Africa to address the many problems that cause conflicts – such as widespread corruption, economic inequality and exclusion of certain ethnic and social groups – it is essential to have democratic, well-governed states. To achieve peace and stability, Africa must recycle its current leadership by putting emphasis on the demilitarization of the minds and political institutions.
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Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The Republic of Somaliland is situated in the northwest of Somalia bordering Ethiopia and Djibouti on the tip of the horn of Africa. The international community and particularly the African Union have a duty to accompany the Somalilanders in their endeavor to preserve the democratization process for a cohesive and stable Somaliland to re-affirm their nationhood.
→ read full articleSurviving Scarcities in Bulengo: Women’s Trial in Displaced Camps in North Kivu (D. R. Congo)
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
I reflect on the challenge of the Doctors Without Borders staff at the clinic. They are at the frontline of hope, they treat the disabled, do a regular follow up of the AIDS patients, support psychologically the women in distress. They are a group dedicated to provide free health care to everyone. They are also exposed to insecurity.
→ read full articleThe West and the Fascist Mindset Within: Romani Folk under Fire
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
The Rom folk face a wide range of often interrelated problems: citizenship, political participation, racially-motivated violence, poverty, unemployment, and an image which arouses ancestral fears of Gypsies.
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Rais Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2013
Vientos salinos,
Imágenes de ganado y de pastores,
Vida difícil del desierto,
Espejismo de ciudades de sal distantes.
Empires Strike Hard, Nations Die Hard: Behind the Libyan Fake Revolution and the Re-colonization of Africa
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2011
After six months of fierce bombings on Libya by NATO and their TNC cronies; the mainstream media is painting the conflict as a natural consequence of the previous disillusioned revolution in North Africa.
→ read full articleEmpires Strike Hard, Nations Die Hard: Behind the Libyan Fake Revolution, And the Re-Colonization of Africa.
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2011
“Democracy building” in Libya, we are told, requires the extensive bombing of an entire country, under NATO’s”Responsibility to Protect” (R2P). To say we kill the Libyans for their own good is a deceit.
→ read full articleREMEMBERING THE FAILURE OF COPENHAGEN 2009: SCHISM ON GLOBAL CLIMATE SUMMIT
Raïs Neza Boneza,
9 Jan 2010
When there are still some people who see climate change as another kind of conspiracy or a natural process, but overwhelmingly the emergency of an appropriate response is well recognized. The search for a unilateral solution to the equation faded on both side of the most powerful and weak actors; living the real issues binding […]
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