This week's highlights

FEATURE: Mvemba Dizolele on coltan, conflict and the DRC

COMMENTS AND ANALYSIS
- Laurie Nathan asks is if the Darfur Roadmap is likely to bear fruit
- Mammo Muchie calls for an alternative mediation process in Ethiopia
- If government was a restaurant, then … writes Rakesh Rajani
- Betty Muragori casts African eyes on America’s virtual segregation

LETTERS
- Jacques Depelchin responds on ‘A farewell to activism’
- Old habits die hard
- Calls for an end to the harassment of human rights defenders

BOOKS & ARTS: The double bass and a political instrument

PODCASTS: Don’t turn away from Sudan and Darfur

AU MONITOR: As AU Monitoring work expands, so does the round up of key news
WOMEN AND GENDER: African sex workers still at risk of violence
CONFLICT AND EMERGENCIES: Morocco and Polisario in new talks
HUMAN RIGHTS: Mauritanians outlaw slavery
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: Slum-dwellers’ leader arrested
REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION: More Kenyans flee attacks
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: Massive irregularities in Zimbabwe voter registration
CORRUPTION: Nigeria, US cooperate on bribe probe
DEVELOPMENT: Foreign aid will not make poverty history
HEALTH AND HIV/Aids: Victory for affordable ARVs
LGBTI: Circumcision message could confuse gay community
ENVIRONMENT: UN debates climate change
LAND AND LAND RIGHTS: Women still back of the queue on land access
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Zambian Minister’s attack on journalists condemned
INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY: Wireless launched for rural Uganda
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