This week's highlights

FEATURES:
- Mary Ndlovu asks how long before Mugabe goes? Change is coming, but it will only be the first step on a long journey to a just society
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:
- Kali Akuno – calls for reparations, and recognition of Afrikans as their own liberators
- Roland Bankole Marke – calls for compassion and action for Sierra Leone amputees
- Nikolaj Nielsen – on the West’s continued complicity in the underdevelopment of Africa
LETTERS:
- Vye Ewol from Haiti congratulates Jacques Depelchin on his Cite Soleil article
- Reggie Auguste: who are the real enemies of Cite Soleil?
- Doreen Lwanga on criminalisation of the poor
- Bernard Tabaire appeals for support to save a forest in Uganda
- PAN-AFRICAN POSTCARD: Tajudeen laments that slavery in not dead
- BLOGGING AFRICA: housing issues in Durban; China in Kenya; and reparations for slavery
BOOKS & ARTS: reviews of African Love Stories and Hotel Rwanda

WOMEN AND GENDER: Senegal guarantees gender balance in legislative polls
CONFLICT AND EMERGENCIES: Bemba’s militias join national army
HUMAN RIGHTS: Egyptian police break up referendum protest
REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION: 35 Somali migrants dead
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: Unity cabinet named in Guinea
AFRICA AND CHINA: China’s back-door deals in Zambia
DEVELOPMENT: Zambians thirsty for basic services
HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS: The dilemma of health care reform
EDUCATION: UNESCO releases Global Monitoring Report
LGBTI: Application of Human Rights to Sexual Orientation
ENVIRONMENT: African governments urged to ban plastics
LAND & LAND RIGHTS: More people at risk as Kenya land clashes persist
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Liberian court nullifies ban on newspaper
NEWS FROM THE DIASPORA: 900,000 Africans prepare for French polls
INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY: New ICT policy for Zambia
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