Features
Pan Africanists and the International Criminal Court
Horace Campbell (2012-03-08)
cc IRIN PhotosPan Africanists must take the lead to ensure that those who commit genocidal violence and crimes against humanity are tried in the court of public opinion and isolated in every way.
Angola: Diamond extraction and crimes against humanity
Rafael Marques de Morais (2012-03-08)
cc Wikimedia'How can profitable diamond mining, in a peaceful country with such a fast-growing economy, become the source of so much violence?'
Would Obasanjo recognise peace if he saw it?
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe (2012-03-08)
cc WikimediaFormer Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo was a poor choice to mediate the Senegalese election crisis and the voters wasted no time in throwing him out.
Sweatshop Sugar
Jason Hickel (2012-03-08)
cc S N MThe 74,000 agricultural workers who plant, weed and harvest hundreds of thousands of acres of cane are mostly not unionised. They work in extremely dangerous conditions with very little by way of rights and protections. Until recently, they didn’t even enjoy a minimum wage.
The politics of language in Cameroon
Peter Wuteh Vakunta (2012-03-08)
cc WikimediaIs Cameroon's language policy integrating the nation, as it was intended to do? Or is the approach to language threatening to tear the country apart?
Back to the Future? Securitising the South African State
Dale T. McKinley (2012-03-08)
cc ER24 EMSBy merging domestic and foreign intelligence, the new Bill raises the unenviable spectre of the all-powerful apartheid-era Bureau of State Security – and not without good reason.
Kenyan sex workers cause a stir in Nairobi
Denis Nzioka (2012-03-08)
cc S RA key message the marchers wanted to pass across was the problem of stigma and discrimination they face in their lives and work. These include challenges in accessing health, legal, medical and social services.
RIP Jean Ristil Jean-Baptiste
Sokari Ekine (2012-03-08)
© The Haitian BloggerThe young journalist was not only devoted to his work but also to the community and the whole nation of Haiti. Those who were close to him remember Jean Ristil as courageous, humble and socially conscious.
Uganda: Acholi face second genocide with U.S. troops in
Ann Garrison (2012-03-08)
cc US ArmyA vicious land grab is being carried out in Uganda, pairing the country’s dictator with an ‘investor,’ and the targets are the Acholi, genocide survivors who live on abundant, fertile and mineral-rich land.
The challenges of building a caring society
Douglas Mthukwane (2012-03-08)
cc M OIs the liberation struggle over? If not, what are we fighting? And how can we build a caring society?
The lessons of 2011
Kali Akuno (2012-03-08)
cc B N FAs the power struggle between capital and the working class intensifies over whom and how the economic crisis will be resolved, the working class would do well to recall the lessons of 2011 and build on them.
Stratfor: And it gets worse
Khadija Sharife (2012-03-08)
cc E IStratfor - as evidenced by their own content - is neither a politically nor ideologically neutral intelligence agency.