Featured This Week

FEATURE:
- As in many communities in Nigeria’s oil rich Delta region, most people of Yenagoa live in mud huts. They have no hospitals, no running water, no schools. And there is unemployment too, writes Emira Woods.
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:
-Aaron Tesfaye argues that the situation in Darfur is a grim reminder “of the after-effects of colonialism.
- Glenn Brigaldino describes Somalia as a state that only exists on paper, including maps
- Mouhamadou Tidiane KASSE argues that the implementation of neo-liberal policies and strategies in Africa, which have culminated today in globalisation, resulted in the feminisation of poverty on the continent.
LETTERS: Disarmament Programme in Mozambique
PAN AFRICAN POSTCARD: Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem despairs at the Latin Americanization of Nigerian politics
BLOGGING AFRICA: This week, Sokari Ekine focuses on Kenyan blogging community.
BOOKS: Robtel Pailey interviews Tsitsi Dangarembga
CONFLICT AND EMERGENCIES: Links to news on Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda and Angola
HUMAN RIGHTS: A call on the UN Assembly to approve Indigenous Declaration
WOMEN AND GENDER: Renewed efforts to outlaw Female Genital Mutilation
REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION: Risk of polio amongst Somali refugees
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: EISA Regional Observer Mission To The Zambia 2006
DEVELOPMENT: Making trade work for the poor
CORRUPTION: Corruption is rampant in relief work
HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS: HIV/AIDS, A threat to national development
EDUCATION: World Teachers’ Day
ENVIRONMENT: Download A new book on Carbon Trading
LAND AND LAND RIGHTS: Land reform a tricky issue in South Africa
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Campaign of intimidation against Burundi radio stations
DIASPORA: Black women and stress
INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY: Lack of consensus threatens EASSY cable
FAHAMU Announces free online course: Introduction to human rights
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