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Anne Soy
BBC News, Nairobi
The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that the war in Sudan could trigger the world’s largest hunger crisis, unless fighting stops. Popular Tanzanian singer Zuchu has apologised after authorities
More than 10 months of fighting between rival forces has left nearly 14,000 people dead, over eight million displaced and much of the country’s population cut off and facing rising hunger. in Zanzibar suspended her from all artistic activities on the archipelago for
As war rages, Sudanese families continue to flee to neighbouring countries. six months over a performance they deemed inappropriate.
Many have been displaced multiple times. They arrive at transit camps with close to nothing, hungry and desperate for help. Zuchu's performance on Zanzibar's Kendwa island last month featured sexually explicit
During a visit to a camp in neighbouring South Sudan, the head of the WFP, Cindy McCain, said the victims of the war had been forgotten. language and gestures.
She said aid agencies had to be given access to those facing emergency levels of hunger who were stranded in areas cut off by violence. The Zanzibar Arts, Census, Film and Cultural on Tuesday
said that the performance went against the islands’ customs, traditions and
culture.
It also asked Zuchu to submit a written apology.
In a video shared to her Instagram late on Tuesday, the musician apologised for any
offence caused by her performance.
“The goal was to entertain and not to mislead,” she said.
The singer has also been suspended from "engaging in any artistic activities" in Zanzibar for the next six months by the local cultural council.
Zuchu, real name Zuhura Othman Soud, is one of the most successful musicians in East Africa.
The 30-year-old is the first female musician in East Africa to gain one million YouTube subscribers, which she achieved in a year.
She is also the first female musician in East Africa and only the fifth female artist on the continent to surpass 500 million YouTube views, according to her label WCB Wasafi.
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