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somaliland, 2: some snaps from hargeysa

These are pics taken over people’s shoulders or out of windows, or when I persuaded someone to pause and let me pose.

As such, they’re at the periphery of the main activities of the 10th Hargeysa book fair - a magnificent achievement - and just glance at things that hold fond memories of Somaliland for me.

Particularly those things that remind me of the poets:

The Gaarriye Centre at Hargeysa University, dedicated to the Somali language and literature that the late great poet taught there; ‘Hadraawi team’, reminding me of working on the Hadraawi translations with Said Jama Hussein and Mohamed Hassan ‘Alto’ under the supervision of Rashiid Sheekh Cabdillahi X. Axmed ‘Gadhweyne’.

Then there’s the Sponge Bob sticker on the window of the stationers, which brought back the time in a café with Gaarriye when I needed a pencil to make a quick note, and the only one I could buy had Sponge Bob all over it…

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Somaliland Decides: 2017 Presidential Elections - In Pictures

Somaliland Decides: 2017 Presidential Elections – In Pictures

Somaliland today is widely regarded to have one of the most thriving democracies in East Africa. It held its presidential elections – the country’s third since 2003 – on 13 November 2017, electing a new president, Muse Bihi Abdi of the Kulmiye party. (more…)

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Forget tango- the murga of Buenos Aires is a riot of sequins and salvation

Freelance photographer Kate Stanworth has been following a Buenos Aires murga group for 10 years, as they perform in an energetic street carnival that is little known beyond Argentina Argentinas chari Buenos Aires news today

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Freelance photographer Kate Stanworth has been following a Buenos Aires murga group for 10 years, as they perform in an energetic street carnival that is little known beyond Argentina

Argentina’s charismatic capital, Buenos Aires, might be more famous for tango, steak and football than colourful carnival parades. However, murga – a feisty, home-grown form of street dance and percussion performed during carnival season, once unfairly thought of as only performed by drop-outs and drunks – has flourished in recent years, providing a source of pride, happiness and salvation for the predominantly working class families that dedicate their lives to it.

Continue reading...#designguardian

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Kate Stanworth's best photograph: Murga dancers make a busload of sandwiches https://ift.tt/2mIEwcM

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Kate Stanworth's best photograph: Murga dancers make a busload of sandwiches

‘Murga troupes travel around Argentina in knackered old school buses, performing on makeshift stages in closed-down streets. These two are making ham and cheese sandwiches for the road’

Murga is Argentinian street theatre that combines dance with percussion. The first time I heard the hypnotic drumbeat of a performance was in a park in Buenos Aires. I walked towards it and watched the dancers as they moved from the first simple steps to the intense high kicks the performances culminate in. I was hooked. I wanted to know everything about it.

For ordinary, working class people, murga plays an important role. Austerity means it’s becoming much harder to live in Argentina. Murga gives them something to look forward to, an escape.

I liked how this quiet, fleeting moment stood in contrast to the flurry of activity all around

Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jul/26/kate-stanworth-best-photograph-murga-dancers-argentina

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Kate Stanworth's best photograph: Murga dancers make a busload of sandwiches

‘Murga troupes travel around Argentina in knackered old school buses, performing on makeshift stages in closed-down streets. These two are making ham and cheese sandwiches for the road’

Murga is Argentinian street theatre that combines dance with percussion. The first time I heard the hypnotic drumbeat of a performance was in a park in Buenos Aires. I walked towards it and watched the dancers as they moved from the first simple steps to the intense high kicks the performances culminate in. I was hooked. I wanted to know everything about it.

For ordinary, working class people, murga plays an important role. Austerity means it’s becoming much harder to live in Argentina. Murga gives them something to look forward to, an escape.

I liked how this quiet, fleeting moment stood in contrast to the flurry of activity all around

Continue reading... from Photography | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2OhFn0w

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Somaliland’s Independence Anniversary Highlights Opportunity for UK with Commonwealth Allies

Somaliland’s Independence Anniversary Highlights Opportunity for UK with Commonwealth Allies

Written by: Stephen Doughty MP, Zac Goldsmith MP, Liz McInnes MP and Matthew Offord MP House of Commons 8 Parliamentarians mark today’s 58th anniversary since the former British protectorate of Somaliland attained independence from the United Kingdom. They call on the UK government to begin the process of bringing Somaliland into the international community, as distinct from neighbouring…

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Photo-Forum June 13th

Speakers: Kate Stanworth and Mark Aitken

In June, Photo-Forum will focus on the concept of home and identity; how we both imprint ourselves on the spaces we occupy and how those spaces, in turn, define us. Both currently working on projects around this subject, Kate Stanworth and Mark Aitken will be joining us for an evening of exploring our relationships with “home”: from personal experiences of homes under threat to the story of a group finding identity through community.

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Kate Stanworth is a documentary and portrait photographer from London. Her work is concerned with how people negotiate issues such as poverty, migration, cultural identity and belonging while striving to retain their hopes, dreams and sense of autonomy. She has a degree in Fine Art from Norwich School of Art, and an MA in Art Theory from Goldsmiths. She worked as a Picture Editor for an International NGO before launching her own photography career working for magazines and newspapers in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Kate will be sharing work from the projects ‘All Year We Dream of February’ - which depicts a group of carnival dancers in Buenos Aires as they find identity and hope against the backdrop of domestic life in a working class neighbourhood – as well as her project ‘Somaliland Summer’ a portrait series about British Somalis as they spend a summer exploring their cultural heritage in their homeland.

©Kate Stanworth

Mark Aitken was born in New Zealand and raised in South Africa before coming to the UK to study art. Now a photographer and lecturer at Goldsmiths University and Central St Martins, Mark will be sharing work from his Arts Council England supported project ‘Sanctum Ephemeral'.

‘Sanctum Ephemeral' is a portrait series depicting residents living on Cressingham Gardens Housing Estate, Brixton. Lambeth Council has proposed the building of new public and private owned housing with Cressingham Gardens earmarked for demolition. As both an artist and resident, Mark has been engaged with the project since September 2015. Mark says “The photographs are an exploration of how home as a repository of memory defines identity. We define our homes. Our homes define us.”

The project will be exhibited within the estate itself and will be on show throughout June as a part of the London Festival of Architecture.

©Mark Aitken

Photo-Forum Folio Social 

Thursday 22nd June, 4pm onwards. The Reliance Pub, 336 Old St, EC1V 9DR

Share your work with the Photo-Forum audience at our first Folio Social. Bring your portfolio, project or work in progress for an informal evening of folio reviews and socialising. Past speakers and industry figures will be on hand to view work but the reviews are intended as peer to peer discussion, a chance to give and receive feedback and to share ideas. Feel free to join us with or without work to show.

The reviews sessions will take place from 4-7pm followed by drinks.

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Image caption Nadine Masseron has two jobs but it’s still not enough to pay her rent

“Every year the estate agent tries to put up the rent by 50 a month. Every year I go through that, begging, pleading, ‘please don’t’.”

But even at its present level, Nadine Masseron – a single mother from Wokingham in Berkshire – cannot afford to pay her rent.

To make ends meet, she borrows money on a credit card. She has 6,000 of debt as a result.

She works full-time as a sales manager for a health supplements company, with a second job as a natural health consultant at weekends.

“They call it a living wage. That doesn’t make sense. That is a bare-faced lie,” she says.

“It’s not a living wage if you cannot afford to live anywhere on that wage.”

Where can I afford to live? BBC Calculator

Shortfall

According to the housing charity Shelter, there are now half a million people in the UK in the same situation as Nadine: people who have jobs, but who still have to borrow money for the rent.

That amounts to one in three renters who are on low incomes, Shelter says.

Nadine earns around 1,500 a month, but rent and council tax alone take up 1,057.

Despite claiming housing benefit, tax credits and child benefit, there is always a shortfall at the end of the month.

She wants the next government to introduce significant change: rents that can only rise in line with the National Living Wage, housing benefit that covers the rent, and more security of tenure.

Conservative promises

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Increase security of tenure for “good tenants”

Encourage landlords to offer long tenancies as standard

Reduce rents by building 1.5m new homes by 2022

Promote more council houses, with Right-to-Buy after 10-15 years

Conservative manifesto

Image copyright Kate Stanworth

Image caption Longer leases would give tenants more security, says Tracy Strassburg

Tracy Strassburg – a mother of two boys from Nunhead in south-east London – has an even bigger shortfall in her finances.

Her freelance job as a yoga teacher provides her with 640 a month.

Yet the rent on her small two-bedroom flat is 1,400. Even with housing benefit of 946 a month, she is still left borrowing 300 a month from her mother, as well as using credit cards.

“It’s really stressful. A few days before rent day every month I start to go into a panic,” she says.

But the stress is not just because of the finances.

Since landlords sometimes want their property back, she has been forced to move repeatedly.

In his lifetime, her seven-year-old son has had six different homes, each more cramped than the last.

“Every time we move, we have to downgrade, because the rent goes up, and we have to move down,” she says.

“So we started off in a perfectly acceptable sized house, and we’ve gone slowly, slowly down into this tiny little place.”

She wants the next government to introduce five-year leases to give tenants more security.

Labour promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Rents can rise only with inflation

Three-year tenancies the norm

New standards to ensure homes are fit for habitation

Reinstate housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds

Build more council houses

Suspend Right-to-Buy policy

Labour manifesto

‘2.79 a week to live on’

In two years’ time, new rules on housing benefit come into effect for social tenants that will make things even harder.

New claimants who are single and under 35 will only qualify for the shared accommodation rate (SAR) of housing benefit. In other words it is assumed they will live in a shared house or flat.

This rule already exists for private renters.

As a result, according to a new study by Sheffield Hallam University, some 12,500 young tenants in south-east England will see a shortfall between their benefit payments and their rent, typically of 55 a week.

Those under 25 claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) would be left with just 2.79 a week to live on, it claims.

But the government has said the change is necessary, as part of attempts to reduce the 25bn a year spent on housing benefit. And it has pointed out that councils do have the power to make discretionary payments in cases of hardship.

None of the parties has committed to reversing this policy.

Liberal Democrat promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Rent rises to be inflation-linked

Cap for upfront deposits

Rent-to-own model, giving tenants ownership after 30 years

Tenants get first refusal to buy property when landlord sells

New loans to help first-time renters under 30 with a deposit

Reverse cuts to housing benefit

Liberal Democrat manifesto

Image caption Lindy Hamilton worries that the new SAR plan will result in people becoming homeless

Thirty-year-old Lindy Hamilton, a travel and lifestyle blogger who lives in Swindon, is worried about the new shared accommodation rates.

If her income were to drop, she says she could suffer a disproportionate cut in housing benefit of around 40 a week.

“I would really struggle to be able to stay in my home,” she says.

“This would create a monthly deficit of 160 in rent which, if I couldn’t cover it, would result in me losing my home and being made homeless.”

She would like the next government to tackle rising rents, and unscrupulous landlords who rent out properties that are not safe.

“I would also like them to take another look at the shared accommodation rate plan which is undoubtedly going to result in people getting into rent arrears and even becoming homeless.”

The Sovereign Housing Association, which commissioned the Sheffield research, says it may have to consider subsidising rents for those under the age of 35, or else stop housing people in the younger age group altogether.

SNP promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Likely to promise reintroduction of housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds

The Private Tenancies Bill, passed last year, already provides increased security for tenants

Rents can already only be increased once a year, and with three months’ notice

Letting agency fees already outlawed

The full SNP manifesto will be published on Tuesday.

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Election 2017: What if I can’t afford to pay the rent? – BBC News

Image caption Nadine Masseron has two jobs but it’s still not enough to pay her rent

“Every year the estate agent tries to put up the rent by 50 a month. Every year I go through that, begging, pleading, ‘please don’t’.”

But even at its present level, Nadine Masseron – a single mother from Wokingham in Berkshire – cannot afford to pay her rent.

To make ends meet, she borrows money on a credit card. She has 6,000 of debt as a result.

She works full-time as a sales manager for a health supplements company, with a second job as a natural health consultant at weekends.

“They call it a living wage. That doesn’t make sense. That is a bare-faced lie,” she says.

“It’s not a living wage if you cannot afford to live anywhere on that wage.”

Where can I afford to live? BBC Calculator

Shortfall

According to the housing charity Shelter, there are now half a million people in the UK in the same situation as Nadine: people who have jobs, but who still have to borrow money for the rent.

That amounts to one in three renters who are on low incomes, Shelter says.

Nadine earns around 1,500 a month, but rent and council tax alone take up 1,057.

Despite claiming housing benefit, tax credits and child benefit, there is always a shortfall at the end of the month.

She wants the next government to introduce significant change: rents that can only rise in line with the National Living Wage, housing benefit that covers the rent, and more security of tenure.

Conservative promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Increase security of tenure for “good tenants”

Encourage landlords to offer long tenancies as standard

Reduce rents by building 1.5m new homes by 2022

Promote more council houses, with Right-to-Buy after 10-15 years

Conservative manifesto

Image copyright Kate Stanworth

Image caption Longer leases would give tenants more security, says Tracy Strassburg

Tracy Strassburg – a mother of two boys from Nunhead in south-east London – has an even bigger shortfall in her finances.

Her freelance job as a yoga teacher provides her with 640 a month.

Yet the rent on her small two-bedroom flat is 1,400. Even with housing benefit of 946 a month, she is still left borrowing 300 a month from her mother, as well as using credit cards.

“It’s really stressful. A few days before rent day every month I start to go into a panic,” she says.

But the stress is not just because of the finances.

Since landlords sometimes want their property back, she has been forced to move repeatedly.

In his lifetime, her seven-year-old son has had six different homes, each more cramped than the last.

“Every time we move, we have to downgrade, because the rent goes up, and we have to move down,” she says.

“So we started off in a perfectly acceptable sized house, and we’ve gone slowly, slowly down into this tiny little place.”

She wants the next government to introduce five-year leases to give tenants more security.

Labour promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Rents can rise only with inflation

Three-year tenancies the norm

New standards to ensure homes are fit for habitation

Reinstate housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds

Build more council houses

Suspend Right-to-Buy policy

Labour manifesto

‘2.79 a week to live on’

In two years’ time, new rules on housing benefit come into effect for social tenants that will make things even harder.

New claimants who are single and under 35 will only qualify for the shared accommodation rate (SAR) of housing benefit. In other words it is assumed they will live in a shared house or flat.

This rule already exists for private renters.

As a result, according to a new study by Sheffield Hallam University, some 12,500 young tenants in south-east England will see a shortfall between their benefit payments and their rent, typically of 55 a week.

Those under 25 claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) would be left with just 2.79 a week to live on, it claims.

But the government has said the change is necessary, as part of attempts to reduce the 25bn a year spent on housing benefit. And it has pointed out that councils do have the power to make discretionary payments in cases of hardship.

None of the parties has committed to reversing this policy.

Liberal Democrat promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Rent rises to be inflation-linked

Cap for upfront deposits

Rent-to-own model, giving tenants ownership after 30 years

Tenants get first refusal to buy property when landlord sells

New loans to help first-time renters under 30 with a deposit

Reverse cuts to housing benefit

Liberal Democrat manifesto

Image caption Lindy Hamilton worries that the new SAR plan will result in people becoming homeless

Thirty-year-old Lindy Hamilton, a travel and lifestyle blogger who lives in Swindon, is worried about the new shared accommodation rates.

If her income were to drop, she says she could suffer a disproportionate cut in housing benefit of around 40 a week.

“I would really struggle to be able to stay in my home,” she says.

“This would create a monthly deficit of 160 in rent which, if I couldn’t cover it, would result in me losing my home and being made homeless.”

She would like the next government to tackle rising rents, and unscrupulous landlords who rent out properties that are not safe.

“I would also like them to take another look at the shared accommodation rate plan which is undoubtedly going to result in people getting into rent arrears and even becoming homeless.”

The Sovereign Housing Association, which commissioned the Sheffield research, says it may have to consider subsidising rents for those under the age of 35, or else stop housing people in the younger age group altogether.

SNP promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Likely to promise reintroduction of housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds

The Private Tenancies Bill, passed last year, already provides increased security for tenants

Rents can already only be increased once a year, and with three months’ notice

Letting agency fees already outlawed

The full SNP manifesto will be published on Tuesday.

Related Topics

Personal finance

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Forget tango: the murga of Buenos Aires is a riot of sequins and salvation

Freelance photographer Kate Stanworth has been following a Buenos Aires murga group for 10 years, as they perform in an energetic street carnival that is little known beyond Argentina Argentinas chari Buenos Aires news today

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Somaliland Photo Exhibition - Bethnal Green, London

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Forget tango: the murga of Buenos Aires is a riot of sequins and salvation - Cities

Freelance photographer Kate Stanworth has been following a Buenos Aires murga group for 10 years, as they perform in an energetic street carnival that is little known beyond Argentina Argentinas chari Buenos Aires news today

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Election 2017: What if I can’t afford to pay the rent? – BBC News

Image caption Nadine Masseron has two jobs but it’s still not enough to pay her rent

“Every year the estate agent tries to put up the rent by 50 a month. Every year I go through that, begging, pleading, ‘please don’t’.”

But even at its present level, Nadine Masseron – a single mother from Wokingham in Berkshire – cannot afford to pay her rent.

To make ends meet, she borrows money on a credit card. She has 6,000 of debt as a result.

She works full-time as a sales manager for a health supplements company, with a second job as a natural health consultant at weekends.

“They call it a living wage. That doesn’t make sense. That is a bare-faced lie,” she says.

“It’s not a living wage if you cannot afford to live anywhere on that wage.”

Where can I afford to live? BBC Calculator

Shortfall

According to the housing charity Shelter, there are now half a million people in the UK in the same situation as Nadine: people who have jobs, but who still have to borrow money for the rent.

That amounts to one in three renters who are on low incomes, Shelter says.

Nadine earns around 1,500 a month, but rent and council tax alone take up 1,057.

Despite claiming housing benefit, tax credits and child benefit, there is always a shortfall at the end of the month.

She wants the next government to introduce significant change: rents that can only rise in line with the National Living Wage, housing benefit that covers the rent, and more security of tenure.

Conservative promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Increase security of tenure for “good tenants”

Encourage landlords to offer long tenancies as standard

Reduce rents by building 1.5m new homes by 2022

Promote more council houses, with Right-to-Buy after 10-15 years

Conservative manifesto

Image copyright Kate Stanworth

Image caption Longer leases would give tenants more security, says Tracy Strassburg

Tracy Strassburg – a mother of two boys from Nunhead in south-east London – has an even bigger shortfall in her finances.

Her freelance job as a yoga teacher provides her with 640 a month.

Yet the rent on her small two-bedroom flat is 1,400. Even with housing benefit of 946 a month, she is still left borrowing 300 a month from her mother, as well as using credit cards.

“It’s really stressful. A few days before rent day every month I start to go into a panic,” she says.

But the stress is not just because of the finances.

Since landlords sometimes want their property back, she has been forced to move repeatedly.

In his lifetime, her seven-year-old son has had six different homes, each more cramped than the last.

“Every time we move, we have to downgrade, because the rent goes up, and we have to move down,” she says.

“So we started off in a perfectly acceptable sized house, and we’ve gone slowly, slowly down into this tiny little place.”

She wants the next government to introduce five-year leases to give tenants more security.

Labour promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Rents can rise only with inflation

Three-year tenancies the norm

New standards to ensure homes are fit for habitation

Reinstate housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds

Build more council houses

Suspend Right-to-Buy policy

Labour manifesto

‘2.79 a week to live on’

In two years’ time, new rules on housing benefit come into effect for social tenants that will make things even harder.

New claimants who are single and under 35 will only qualify for the shared accommodation rate (SAR) of housing benefit. In other words it is assumed they will live in a shared house or flat.

This rule already exists for private renters.

As a result, according to a new study by Sheffield Hallam University, some 12,500 young tenants in south-east England will see a shortfall between their benefit payments and their rent, typically of 55 a week.

Those under 25 claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) would be left with just 2.79 a week to live on, it claims.

But the government has said the change is necessary, as part of attempts to reduce the 25bn a year spent on housing benefit. And it has pointed out that councils do have the power to make discretionary payments in cases of hardship.

None of the parties has committed to reversing this policy.

Liberal Democrat promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Rent rises to be inflation-linked

Cap for upfront deposits

Rent-to-own model, giving tenants ownership after 30 years

Tenants get first refusal to buy property when landlord sells

New loans to help first-time renters under 30 with a deposit

Reverse cuts to housing benefit

Liberal Democrat manifesto

Image caption Lindy Hamilton worries that the new SAR plan will result in people becoming homeless

Thirty-year-old Lindy Hamilton, a travel and lifestyle blogger who lives in Swindon, is worried about the new shared accommodation rates.

If her income were to drop, she says she could suffer a disproportionate cut in housing benefit of around 40 a week.

“I would really struggle to be able to stay in my home,” she says.

“This would create a monthly deficit of 160 in rent which, if I couldn’t cover it, would result in me losing my home and being made homeless.”

She would like the next government to tackle rising rents, and unscrupulous landlords who rent out properties that are not safe.

“I would also like them to take another look at the shared accommodation rate plan which is undoubtedly going to result in people getting into rent arrears and even becoming homeless.”

The Sovereign Housing Association, which commissioned the Sheffield research, says it may have to consider subsidising rents for those under the age of 35, or else stop housing people in the younger age group altogether.

SNP promises

Image copyright Getty Images

Likely to promise reintroduction of housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds

The Private Tenancies Bill, passed last year, already provides increased security for tenants

Rents can already only be increased once a year, and with three months’ notice

Letting agency fees already outlawed

The full SNP manifesto will be published on Tuesday.

Related Topics

Personal finance

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