<figure><img src="https://cdn.worldpulse.org/images/post/18473/26680/post_image_gallery/0cba0882468bcb535241c87586cda9ac/war_picture_from_refugee_commision.jpg" alt /><figcaption></figcaption></figure>Decade of Bullets Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou See a procession of young mothers chattering their way From water fountains in grenade torn sandals And blood laced bras Somalia, Somalia, Somalia See the moon disappearing in a mass of gun smoke Guns splitting the stars from the skin of night Rwanda, Rwanda, Rwanda This is a wound from which the pus of grief flows freely Meandering through rock masses into the valley that lost its freedom Timbuktu, Timbuktu, Timbuktu I hear a rush of footsteps of sorrow Rugged peasants carrying their compounds to far away valleys of flowers

Africa

Decade of Bullets

Leadership 

Gender-based Violence

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