'Unmasking terrorism in imperialism and capitalism'
2013-05-09 Hi Colleagues, Thank you for this edition [Issue 628]. It brings into the public space a phenomenon or cluster of phenomena that we have to label appropriately. For my part I have been...
View ArticleViolation of Freedom of Expression in Ethiopia
2013-05-09 Statement delivered at the 53rd ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights in Banjul, Gambia
View ArticleSleeping in the rain
Even snakes treat us with more respect than the City of Cape Town 2013-05-09 ‘The City of Cape Town is heartless. They want us to get sick. They want to punish us for trying to do what’s best for our...
View ArticleNo to military invasion of Azuzuama Community in Bayelsa state
2013-05-09 Instead of tackling the underlying causes of restiveness and militancy, which are mass unemployment and collapse of education, the Jonathan regime has resorted to brute force
View ArticleNIGERIA: JUNE 19 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
2013-05-09 Mass movement against education cuts, mass unemployment, pro-rich looting and obnoxious electoral laws
View ArticleMayor warned to house poor or face being held in contempt of court
2013-05-09 City cannot ‘throw up hands in horror’ when asked to house the homeless, Judge says
View ArticleKofi Annan speaks out Africa's natural resources
2013-05-09 See video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHY8WNcVWjc
View ArticleAfrican Union urged to uphold press freedom
2013-05-09 New York, May 2, 2013-The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the African Union, to uphold press freedom by calling for justice in journalist...
View ArticleMay Day and failure of the mainstream immigrant rights movement
2013-05-09 The American immigrant rights movement has failed because it allowed itself to be influenced by the paternalism and conservative politics of the liberal non-profit industrial complex and...
View ArticleChallenges of transition
2013-05-09 Violence across Africa is often fueled by political elites who try to cling to power. They play on tribal historic injustices and often leave the poor to fight each other. Transitional...
View ArticleWhat new government should address first at Coast
2013-05-09 The unresolved land question at the Kenyan coast has continued to stagnate development, stoke negative ethnicity and create squatters. Successive governments have displayed lamentable...
View ArticleKenyan workers should strengthen spirit of solidarity
2013-05-08 There is a genuine concern that trade unions and its leadership have failed to protect workers and that trade unions are dens of corruption in Kenya. There is a need to revive a genuine...
View ArticleWhat the Oga at the top doesn’t know
2013-05-09 The government should have capitalised on a recent embarrassing incident in which an official was exposed as incompetent to mount a major PR coup against its critics. But it is too...
View ArticleThe president must hear this
2013-05-08 Warnings that there will be war if Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is not re-elected in 2015 are an anathema to genuine democracy, tolerance and fair play in Africa’s most populous...
View ArticleAfrica must be in control of its fortune
2013-05-08 As the World Economic Forum meets in Cape Town this week [8-10 May], they must commit to implementing programs that will assist the millions being left behind by economic growth. Otherwise,...
View ArticleIs African peace keeping mission in DRC doomed to fail?
2013-05-09 With the recent loss of 12 South African troops in the Central African Republic and the US bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, the extent to which an African peace keeping mission will...
View ArticleWill the Java generation please stand up?
2013-05-09 It seems that Kenya’s middle class of shoppers at Java have become complacent with constitutional change at a time when they should be pushing for further implementation of the constitution
View ArticleWhy Supreme Court of Kenya dismissed Raila Odinga’s election petition
2013-05-09 The recent ruling by the Supreme Court upholding the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as president of Kenya has been dismissed by a number of legal analysts as ‘shallow’, ‘unconvincing’ and based...
View ArticleFahamu Movement Building Boot Camp, May 12-17, 2013, Lusaka, Zambia
2013-05-09 The Adilisha Program will be holding a movement building boot camp for activists’ from social justice movements and organisations in Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.The boot...
View ArticleBeyond Jonathan’s 5.7 Billion Naira Largesse
2013-05-07 - https://picasaweb.google.com/113477966304398096439If the Nigerian government is sincere about achieving peace and solving the recurring problem of electoral violence, it must implement...
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