* Editorial: A struggle for the heart and soul of the African Social Forum is taking place. Amanda Alexander and Mandisa Mbali ask if the social forums will be ‘talk shops’, ‘think tanks’, ‘arenas for planning action’, ‘campaign launch pads’ or ‘strategy and tactics seminars’.
* Comment and Analysis: Norman Reynolds on why the Khulumani case for apartheid reparations is important to human rights
* Pan-African Postcard: Debt relief in the wake of the Asian Tsunami disaster must also apply to Africa, writes Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
* Elections and Governance: The Mozambique election results are getting murkier
* Health: Rating the G7/G8’s commitment to health
* HIV/AIDS: Rolling out ART
* Environment: GM trees are not part of another world, says a new book
* Media and Freedom of Expression: Press freedom in Tunisia a casualty of the “war on terror”
* Books and Art: A review of Conversing with Africa: The Politics of Change

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STOP PRESS…STOP PRESS: Nigeria has become the first country in 2005 to ratify the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, report our campaign partners. The African Union has now received a copy of Nigeria’s instrument of ratification, making Nigeria the sixth country to ratify the protocol after Lesotho, Comoros, Libya, Namibia and Rwanda.

For more information and to sign a petition for women's rights: http://www.pambazuka.org/petition

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