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CÔTE D’IVOIRE – STILL ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR

On Friday 18 March, President Bertrand Aristide returned to Haiti after being ousted in a US backed coup on 29 February 2004. For the past seven years the US has done everything to stop him from returning home.

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Rumour has it that President Bertrand Aristide will return to Haiti on 17 March 2011. That is if the South African government does not capitulate to US demands to delay his departure – which in my mind confirms their role in his kidnapping and forced removal in 2004.

’The Witches of Gambaga’ is a disturbing documentary about a community of women condemned and exiled as witches to the village of Gambaga in northern Ghana.

COTE D’IVOIRE

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US hypocrisy knows no bounds as recently spoken by Ben Terrall here on Pambazuka News.

It’s just six days since the Egyptian revolutionaries successfully removed Hosni Mubarak. The 11th of February was an historic day not just for Egypt but across the world.

We have traveled half the world
with hearts open,
we’ve seen everything.
Always remember who we are,
where we came from,
and you’ll never do evil

(From ‘What we keep’ ©)

‘Migritude’ is a gift of which Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak writes: