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13.01.2005

* Editorial: The international approach to the DRC has always been to treat the country as a sick person that needs to be kept alive but cannot be allowed to recover. Recovery would make control difficult, says Ernest Wamba dia Wamba.
* Comment and Analysis: Christina Clark visits a forgotten world in Western Uganda to examine child rights and conflict-induced displacement
- Emerging issues for Africa in the post-Tsunami world
* Letters: The slaves are clinging to the door posts in their attempt to stay in the masters house, say some of our readers in response to last week’s editorial on the African Social Forum
* Pan-African Postcard: UK finance head Gordon Brown’s Marshall Plan for Africa is likely to be thwarted by his own leadership battle with Tony Blair during an election year, writes Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
* Conflicts and Emergencies: The chance to find out more about the underworld of coup plots in Africa is lost as Mark Thatcher does a deal
- The latest Justice Africa briefing looks at Sudan’s prospects for peace in the post-Naivasha phase
* Human Rights: Human rights organization in Rwanda shuts down
* Women and Gender: Benin moves closer to ratifying the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
* Development: East Africa threatened by new trade negotiations
* Health and HIV/AIDS: Africa Focus asks: Will 2005 be a year of action for Africa?
* Environment: An interview With Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai gets to the heart of the matter

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Dear Reader,

We have made some small adjustments to the newsletter this week. The Health section has been amalgamated with the HIV/AIDS section and we have closed down the Social Welfare section since much of the content can easily be reassigned to other categories.

The Land and Land Rights, Racism and Xenophobia and News from the Diaspora sections will from now on be included in the newsletter in the first edition of each month. The principle reason for doing this is that we currently lack resources to cover these subjects in depth every week. If you would like to help research information for inclusion in these sections, please get in touch with us ([email protected]).

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