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FEATURES: Owen Alik Shahadah describes how history is written to deny agency to Africa and its peoples
COMMENTS & ANALYSIS
- Abdul Raufu Mustapha assesses the impact on Nigeria’s recent fraudulent elections
- South Africa’s involvement in Nigeria is not about Pan Africanism Shawn
Hattingh but about exploitation
- Corruption scandal hits Kenya
- Joseph Yav argues that poverty alleviation requires a holistic approach
LETTERS
- Amnesty International and CSOs call on human rights to be at the centre of the dialogue between government and MDC
- Operation Murambatsvina comes to KwaZulu Natal
PAN AFRICAN POSTCARD: we are blessed with two contributions from Tajudeen this week: the killing of John Garang and the call for a Union Government of Africa
BOOKS & ARTS: More from the Poetess of the People

AU MONITOR: with Pambazuka News staff in Accra, there is plenty to report from the African Union
PODCAST: Interview with Madaraka Nyerere on the relaunch of the Arusha Declaration
WOMEN AND GENDER: Mauritian budget to target women
CONFLICT AND EMERGENCIES: Can the Ouagadougou agreement bring peace?
HUMAN RIGHTS: Human trafficking on the rise in East Africa
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: Zimbabwe government lifts ban on rallies
REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION: Damning report on Uganda war crimes
ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE: Disorder mars Congo’s elections
AFRICA AND CHINA: AU to help Africa benefit from trade with China
CORRUPTION: Liberian graft watchdog threatened
DEVELOPMENT: Initiation to bring jobs to Sierra Leone’s rural youth
HEALTH AND HIV/Aids: Taking stock of the AIDS response
EDUCATION: Africa moves to achieve Education For All
ENVIRONMENT: A difficult trade-off to save Rwanda’s Lake Kivu
LAND & LAND RIGHTS: Mozambique’s first land confiscations
MEDIA AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Lesotho journalist charged with treason
NEWS FROM THE DIASPORA: The UK’s child slaves
INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY: World Information Society 2007 report
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