Featured in this issue

* Editorial: Poverty is a gross violation of human rights and must be abolished, argues Pierre Sané. And before you laugh out loud because you think this statement is naïve keep in mind that: "There is nothing to smile at in distress, misery, dereliction and death which march in grim parade with poverty."
* Comment and Analysis: Steve Kibble says the pushing through of the NGO Bill in Zimbabwe completes the strangling of basic freedoms, but that the love of liberty shall not be killed
- Another Africa is still possible, as the third African Social Forum prepares to meet in Zambia
- Onyekachi Wambu raises questions about Northern NGOs bandwagons in relation to diaspora, and calls for a partnership between African social movements and the diaspora
* 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence: "We do not interfere in domestic affairs" - A Ugandan woman tells how she suffered years of domestic violence
- Senegal moves closer to ratifying the AU Protocol on the Rights of Women
* Letters: Pambazuka readers rave and rage about Everjoice Win's article last week on international days of "this and that"
* Pan-African Postcard: Those calling for the head of Kofi Annan are a danger to the world, says Tajudeen Abdul Raheem in his weekly column
* Conflict and Emergency: The Equatorial Guinea coup plot raises uncomfortable questions for the UK and US governments
* Human Rights: NGOs to engage with African committee of experts on rights of the child
* Refugees and Forced Migration: The grim fate that awaits those deported to the DRC
* Elections and Governance: The latest from elections in Ghana, Mozambique and Niger
* Books and Arts: A review of 'We miss you all', described as "engaging, surprising, challenging and absolutely inspirational".

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