A British charity called Comic Relief, is under fire when television presenter Stacey Dooley was showed holding a black child as an effort to raise funds for some of the world’s poorest communities. Comic Relief is a charity that enlists celebrities to help raise funds for less fortunate communities and so far has raised nearly $106 million. Dooley was shown holding the child for a BBC documentary that is scheduled to air later this month about her trip to Uganda. A British politician was the one to state that this act was promoting colonial ideas of Africans being “helpless victims” while Dooley was depicted as the “white savior.” A statement was made by a spokesperson for the Comic Relief group stating they make no apologies and are grateful that Dooley was able to visit Uganda and educate herself about the different projects the British have set up. This isn’t the first time that celebrities have been given backlash for this same issue. In 2017 Ed Sheeran got heat from the public for being seen with street children from Liberia. After this, Comic Relief agreed to use local heroes rather than celebrities in upcoming video clips. A statement went up on twitter stating, “Most of you are not intentionally causing harm but once you are presented with these unintended consequences, you are responsible to do better.” Two helicopters leaving an island in Kenya late Saturday night, have been reported as losing contact with flight officials and killing four Americans on board along with their Kenyan pilot. The cause of the crash has not yet been determined but it came just one month after a previous crash occurred in Western Kenya killing three Americans. Last week after Rwanda blocked Ugandan cargo trucks from entering its territory at one of the busiest crossing point, Katuna. Ever since then tensions have been heightened by the two nations and Rwanda has accused Uganda of supporting the rebel group that opposes their countries government. The FDLR is a rebel group composed in part of former Rwandan soldiers and Hutu militias who fled into Democratic Republic of Congo after a mass killing of 800,000 tutsis and moderate Hutus.
