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* EDITORIAL: With the emergence of “the filthy rich and the pathetically poor” there is a need to reconstruct a national consensus, writes Issa Shivji
* COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Has Africa defined HIV/AIDS adequately enough to confront it head-on? asks a reader in response to last week’s editorial, ‘HIV/AIDS – The dilemma of the inevitable’
* PAN-AFRICAN POSTCARD: The jilted lover syndrome can be best used to describe the relationship between African and their governments. But Africans should be open to a new relationship, says Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
* CONFLICTS AND EMERGENCIES: News from Darfur, DRC, Ivory Coast and Uganda
* WOMEN AND GENDER: Beijing +10 is in full swing
* DEVELOPMENT: Rich country commitments on debt relief remain on the level of committing to as little as possible, argues this article
* EDUCATION: Mozambique may have broken an IMF ban on teacher hiring, says the latest edition of the Mozambique Bulletin
* LAND AND LAND RIGHTS: There can be no freedom without land equity, states Gordon Abiama
* INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY: What is international ICT policy? Why should African stakeholders care?
* BOOKS AND ART: Zimbabwe – The political economy of decline

>>>>>CORRECTION: In last week’s edition we carried information in the Advocacy and Campaigns section on a civil society statement about Zimbabwe. Please note that the correct link should have been http://www.civicus.org/new/content/petition1.htm. We apologies for any inconvenience caused.