Featured This Week

FEATURE:
- Pambazuka News releases audio and video content
- Lansana Gberie reviews Sierra Leone's Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration programme.
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:
- Ghana must go a step further and adopt measures to protect children from abuse through advocacy, community action and awareness of children’s rights, writes Afua Twum-Danso
- Mohammed T. Yusuf argues that so far, both the government and the LRA have adhered to the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement.
- Last year th ICC issued warrants of arrest for Kony and four other Lord’s Resistance Army commanders. Now, a year on, it finds itself at odds with Uganda's government. Joseph Yav Katshung reports.
- Listening online: the what and the where
LETTERS: Religion and Children in Armed Conflict
PAN AFRICAN POSTCARD: Tajudeen admonishes those who may be reluctant to celebrate Winnie Mandela's 70th birthday (and we celebrate Taju delivering on time for a change!)
BLOGGING AFRICA: This week, Sokari Ekine focuses on West African blogs.
BOOKS: African Languages Refuse to Die: A review of Ngugi wa Thiong’s lecture.
PODCASTS:
- Women's rights in rural South Africa
- Can African deliver on the Millennium Development Goals?
CONFLICT AND EMERGENCIES: Links to news on Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe
HUMAN RIGHTS: In Africa 171 Million Children are Victims of Child Labour
WOMEN AND GENDER: Health Ministers Adopt Measures To Curb Maternal Death
REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION: Kenya Braces For Influx of Somali Refugees as Violence Escalates
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: Elected Parliament Inaugurated in the DRC
DEVELOPMENT: AID Should Be Channelled Through Special Fund
CORRUPTION: CAGE Asks ICPC To Investigate PTDF Fraud
HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS: In Zimbabwe It is Reported that There is HIV Prevalence Decline
EDUCATION: MAKERERE is Still a Reputable University
RACISM & XENOPHOBIA: Groundbreaking Lawsuit Challenges Racial Profiling by Police
ENVIRONMENT: The World’s ‘Septic Tank’
LAND AND LAND RIGHTS: Defiant Farmers To ‘Face The Music’
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: No End In Sight For Abuse Of Press Freedom
DIASPORA: White Race Riots of 1906
INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY: Highway To Freedom
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