FEATURED THIS WEEK

PAMBAZUKA NEWS: warns of identify theft
FEATURED: Our most essential basic requirement for survival, water, is being privatised. Hawa Ba describes the Senegalese experience
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:
- The World Bank is always quick to take the moral high ground by pointing fingers at corruption. Gail Hurley says that Wolfowitz lack sincerity about dealing with the Bank's own complicity.
- Eve Odete reports back on SOAWR's interventions at the Banjul Summit of the African Union
- A new vision for gender activism is called for, says Ann Kithaka
- The unwillingness of governments, multinationals and others to promote rudimentary democracy in Zimbabwe is obvious, writes Patrick Bond
- Stephen Lewis calls for an international agency for women
LETTERS: Football, politics and Africa - readers respond to last week's articles
PAN-AFRICAN POSTCARD: Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem reports on the razzmatazz at the AU Summit in Banjul
BLOGGING AFRICA: Sokari Ekine rounds up the African blogosphere
AFRICAN UNION MONITOR: African Union launches the continent's first human rights court
CONFLICT AND EMERGENCIES: Two months after the Darfur peace accord, humanitarian situation worsens
HUMAN RIGHTS: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has finally legally recognized that genocide occurred in Rwanda in 1994
WOMEN AND GENDER: Rape continues to be reported in Darfur
REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION: Thousands displaced in DRC as crisis continues
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: Election campaign kicks off in DRC
DEVELOPMENT: One year on, and what progress after Gleneagles?
CORRUPTION: Make 'Lecturing Africa' History, say governments
HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS: Cameroon could lose all its doctors by 2009
EDUCATION: Zimbabwe education system running into ruin
ENVIRONMENT: Niger prays for rain
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Nigerian journalists under attack
INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY: Internet to go mobile
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