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Independent.ie €4m in Irish Aid goes missing in Uganda By  Sarah Stack Thursday October 25 2012 The Face of Disgrace | prime minister Yoweri Museveni of Uganda FOUR million euro of Irish Aid funding to Uganda has gone missing in a suspected fraud, the Government has revealed. Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has suspended all financial assistance channelled through the office of prime minister Yoweri Museveni after the money was transferred to unauthorised accounts. Auditors from the Department of Foreign Affairs flew to the capital Kampala this morning to investigate the alleged misappropriation of funds, which was earmarked for education, policing and tackling HIV and Aids in the poorest regions. Mr Gilmore said he is deeply concerned over the alleged fraud, which was identified by Uganda's own auditor general and reported to Irish officials yesterday. “I regard it as intolerable that any development assistance should be misappropriated or diverted,” said Mr Gilmore, Foreign Affairs Minist...

The Myth of Hunger And Starvation There will always be hunger and starvation. Each and every day, 20,000 people die as a consequence of chronic, persistent hunger. Approximately 800 million people live in conditions of poverty so severe that they are unable to obtain enough food to meet their daily requirements. This is not the kind of hunger that makes headlines, as in a famine, but a silent holocaust that continues day after day, month after month. This waste of human lives is all the more tragic in that it can be ended.  Ending hunger is a highly complex challenge. It is increasingly clear that charitable responses and traditional bureaucratic programs, as useful as they may be, are insufficient to carry the day. More importantly, people increasingly recognize that conventional approaches are based on a  framework of thinking  that is inconsistent with what actually must be done to achieve the end of hunger on a sustainable basis.   Creating a New Future Ending hu...

GÉRARD QUENUM: Dolls Never Die Gérard Quenum, Je suis le messager (I’m the Messenger), 2012. Wood, metal, shells and plastic doll, 178 x 37 x13 cm. Photo: C Laurent October Gallery is pleased to announce Dolls Never Die, the second solo exhibition of new works by sculptor  Gérard Quenum . Dolls Never Die will present a series of new sculptures and an installation composed of recycled objects whose diverse histories contribute much to the overall significance of the pieces themselves. Like many of his contemporaries coming out of Africa, Quenum’s work is composed of an eclectic mix of recycled objets trouvés – that elevates the pieces into poignant, mysterious and whimsical ‘portraits’ of individuals or types observed in his local environment. These ‘portraits’ serve as a lens through which we view Africa. The dolls that Quenum employs as models and part-time actors on his stages are doubly-recycled, in that they have already served as hand-me down props, expressing the imaginative ...

Visionary Africa: Art at Work Exhibition 2010 and 2011 mark the 50th anniversary of the independence of 22 African countries.To commemorate this anniversary and to mark the occasion of the third EU-Africa Summit, the European Commission and the Palais des Beaux Arts (Centre for Fine Arts),in collaboration with the African Union, is launching a multi-disciplinary and itinerant cultural project: “Visionary Africa: Art at Work”. This initiative is the extension and the development in Africa of the “Visionary Africa” festival held in Brussels (Summer 2000). African Installations - 3D View This project focuses on the importance of culture and creativity as development tools and is directly in line with the Brussels Declaration by Artists and Cultural Professionals. It includes an itinerant urban exhibition of contemporary African artistic practices, artists’ residencies and workshops. The exhibition will be previewed in conjunction with the European Un...

YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE ASKED FOR A NOTHING ZERO TO THIS WORK...$60,000 come on people..this is art with heart. Homeward Bound Edition of 45 plus 20 artist's proofs Wangechi Mutu 2009 All proceeds from the sale of this specially created print will benefit the Mrs. Sarah's House Project to assist Mrs. Sarah Lastie in rebuilding her family home in the Lower 9th Ward district of New Orleans Invited by curator Dan Cameron to develop a work for the inaugural exhibition Prospect.1 in New Orleans last year, Wangechi Mutu was inspired by the experience of Mrs. Sarah Lastie, whose home in the Lower 9th Ward was devastated by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levy breach.  A retired former government employee, Mrs. Sarah worked for two and a half years following the disaster locked in a struggle with the City and State bureaucracy in her efforts to return to her community. Eventually she began rebuilding her house on her empty lot but  encountered numerous obstacles, including being swin...

Wallace & the Art of Time Wallace, aka Jose Lopez, is now in his 46th year and only started painting seriously five short years ago, at age of 41. The change came with the arrival of his daughter and she enabled him to work from home and given him the freedom and the opportunity to be a full-time father and artist. As a late starter to the world of art, he is certainly making up for lost time. He works prolifically, producing works almost every day. His enthusiasm for painting is wonderful to observe and his sense of flare and a desperation rarely witnessed in this disposible society. Unlike other Artists, who have been generously chosen to represent the larger galleries, have been given their projects and a set of instructions and are gleefully working as successful artists, Wallace is struggling to express what it means to be a great artist.  The work being produced by the privilege, lucky few from some of the best galleries in Europe and America are far from earth shattering...