(PANA)--The 15th session of the executive council of the African Union (AU) started Sunday in Sirte, Libya, in the presence of Libyan Leader Mouammar Kadhafi.
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Khadija Sharife (Foreign Policy In Focus)--‘We cannot assure our development on our own,’ stated France’s pet dictator and Africa’s longest-serving ruler, Omar Bongo. The Gabonese leader was talking about national economic development, but he might just as well have been talking about his own personal economic development.
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Robin Baumgarten (Sister Namibia)--We are doing something extraordinary - something radical - talking about sex and about pleasure. Fifty women coming together for a week to think about our bodies - breasts, arms, mouths, vaginas; about our husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, lovers. About what we’ve been taught about ourselves since before we could walk, since our first periods arrived and we grew hair on our armpits; about what we’ve been taught about being a ‘good woman’, a ‘good wife’; about what we’ve been taught about how we should - or shouldn’t - experience our sexuality.
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Kofi Ali Abdul (Action Group of Africa)--While I am trying to digest the article on the injustices and malpractices going on in the Pan African Parliament (PAP) and the window dressings, it will be good to let you know that I am just back from Accra, Ghana where I joined others on an awareness campaign of the need for the voting right of all the 850 million citizens of the African Union (AU) member states to the AU Commission chairperson.
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