Xenophobia. It struck South Africa in 2007/2008 last year. I wrote an article summarizing the "event". This was done in collaboration with Reid (again!) and Ethan Gray. I have posted the article and can be found here:
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/xenophobia-and-illegal. The xenophobic outbreak was a crisis (to say the least!). Ushahidi was in place, it's just that nobody had heard of it, so it really wasn't used effectively. It had no chance at all of living up to it's "potential".
The xenophobic violence has died down, but there's not much stopping it from re-emerging once again. Ushahidi could certainly help if the violence kicked up again. Awareness will be key though. People will have to know about Ushahidi, in order to make use of it!
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