Dorothy-Grace Guerrero and Firoze Manji (ed) (2008) China’s New Role in Africa and the South: A search for a new perspective. 
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RSS FeedSTOP the Zimbabwe arms shipment
2008-04-24
A ship carrying arms, including 3 million rounds of ammunition, bound for Zimbabwe is currently trying to find a way of delivering its deadly cargo. It is highly likely that these weapons will be used to fuel violence, killings and intimidation in Zi...
No Guns for Zim: The Coalition
2008-04-24
The global effort to prevent weapons from reaching Zimbabwe during the current crisis is led by Southern African trade unions, NGOs, and church organisations, with support from global civil society--including Avaaz, Oxfam, Amnesty International, and ...
South Africa: Police shoot 3 children in Cape Town
2008-02-20
Police have started shooting people at close range in Delft. There is pandemonium and brutality. Following yesterday's ruling in the High Court which upholds Thubelisha Homes and the state's eviction order against the community, the residents decided...
Kenya: Strategic highway to west reopens
2008-02-07
Normal transportation of goods and people to the west of Kenya resumed last week after days of disruption along the highway from Nairobi to west of the country and Uganda. Armed police cleared the highway of barricades erected by marauding youths in ...
Zimbabwe: Global Zimbabwe Forum Protest on Feb 21-22
2008-02-07
The program has now been finalized for the February 21 – 22 protest. The Global Zimbabwe Forum need to contact as many Zimbabweans as we can reach to come to the demonstration. Please contact by email or by phone as many friends as you can reach....
OCHA Kenya situation report
2008-01-24
According to media reports, the Kenyan Police has used tear gas and live ammunition to fire on the crowds with at least 12 deaths reported in Nairobi and Kisumu. This has led to security restrictions on aid and staff movements hindering assessments ...
Latest news on Pambazuka News Kenya Action Alerts
2008-01-25
To keep up-to-date with the latest developments in Kenya, bookmark http://www.pambazuka.org/actionalerts/ where hundreds of postings are to be found, with updates twice a day....
Kenya: Petition for sanctions against Kibaki and his corrupt government
2008-01-15
Targeted and broad-based sanctions must be imposed against the illegitimate and corrupt government of Mwai Kibaki. Everyone knows that the elections were fraudulent and steps must be taken to defend Kenya's nascent democracy. No lasting peace will co...
West Africa: Petition for peace in Niger
2008-01-15
Since its independence, the state of Niger has been in latent conflict with the Tuareg population living on the Nigerien territory. This situation escalated in 1990 with a massacre of this population group in Tchin-Tabaraden and resulted in an armed ...
US-Kenya Coalition for Peace with Truth and Justice
2008-01-15
Dear all Kenyans and friends of Kenya, My name is John Barbieri. I am desperately trying to reach out to other people in the US who are concerned and outraged about the current situation in Kenya, and to see ways that I and others may help take un...
South Africa: Criminal attack on shack settlement in Reservoir Hills
2008-01-17
The Arnett Drive Settlement has been in Reservoir Hills since 1972. Many of the people living there came there after being evicted from Cato Manor in 1959 and then Newlands in 1971. Today they are under armed attack by the eThekwini Municipality th...
GROOTS Kenya issues report on violence in Mathare
2008-01-18
“The 2007 post election skirmishes is just a culmination of sustained tension in the community but the extent and impact of damage, looting, raping, sodomy, eviction and killing has never been witnessed before. The country was hosting three president...
Kenya: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence
2008-01-18
As Kenya counts the human and material cost of the political violence, hospitals are reporting an increase in reported rapes during the immediate post-election period, spurring the government and health organisations to find ways to treat these cases...
Kenya: Alarming reports of gangs preventing people attending rallies - KPTJ
2008-01-18
Kenyans for Peace, Truth, Justice have received alarming reports from human rights monitors in Nairobi’s low-income areas, who have reported that local political leaders are mobilising gangs of youth to deter attendance to the rallies called by the O...
Kenya: Crisis - Mazrui Blames Kibaki
2008-01-11
A leading Kenyan political science academic, Prof. Ali Mazrui, has accused President Mwai Kibaki of plunging the relatively peaceful East African nation into tribalised bloodshed by grabbing state power through a "civilian coup". "This (Kenyan post-e...
Kenya: It's the economy, stupid (not "tribalism")
2008-01-10
The wave of violence that engulfed Kenya after the presidential election has been widely described as tribal or ethnic in nature. But analysts in the east African country point to basic economics as the true cause of the unrest. Widespread violence a...
Kenya: Kenyans for peace, truth, justice
Statement from Concerned Citizens and Governance, Human Rights and Legal Organizations (2008-01-10)
We speak in the name of Kenya's governance, human rights and legal organizations, as well as the concerned citizens who have contacted and chosen to work with us over the last week. We strongly condemn the violence that has erupted across the country...
Kenya’s trauma, and how to end it
2008-01-11
The crisis of violence and disorder in Kenya since the election [1] of 27 December 2007 poses hard questions to members of the country’s political class of all parties and ethnicities. It also raises the issue of what can and should be done now to me...
Kenya: Text of rejected agreement
2008-01-11
This is the agreement ODM says its leader Raila Odinga and President Kibaki were to sign to end the political impasse brought about by the disputed presidential election results. It was to be witnessed by mediator John Kufuor who is the President of ...
Kenya: Famine looms in Eastern province
2008-01-11
Famine looms large in parts of Eastern Province due to lack of rains. Crops, especially beans and maize, are withering, sparking panic among farmers. A spot check in parts of Machakos, Makueni, Kitui, Yatta, Kangundo, Kibwezi and Mwingi districts sho...
Kenya: Threats to the safety of Maina Kiai and others - KPTJ
2008-01-11
We are Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice, an initiative which has been meeting and organising for the past two weeks in order to understand and make public what happened with the counting and tallying process of our Presidential vote, as well ...
Kenya: Statement from concerned citizens - KPTJ
2008-01-11
We speak in the name of Kenya’s governance, human rights and legal organizations, as well as the concerned citizens who have contacted and chosen to work with us over the last two weeks. ...
Kenya electoral crisis
2008-01-06
In view of the growing crisis in Kenya as a result of the stolen elections, we at Pambazuka News have decided to devote a blog site to provide space for up-to-date information about what is happening. Please visit http://www.pambazuka.org/actionalerts/index.php
Zimbabwe: Britain Zimbabwe Society petition against deportations
2007-12-19
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to continue to allow unsuccessful asylum seekers from Zimbabwe to remain in the UK, and to continue the suspension of forced removals to Zimbabwe. Deadline to sign up by: 18 April 2008....
Global: Three major New Orleans public housing demolitions halted
2007-12-20
The Coalition to Stop the Demolitions would like to thank all of our allies and supporters throughout the United States and the world who came and stood with us in New Orleans or took action on the streets your city, or who called, emailed, or faxed ...
An African call for a moratorium on agrofuels
2007-11-30
The aggressive push for agrofuel developments in Africa (known to many as "biofuels") is a massive new threat to our farmers, food, forests, water resources and land rights. The aggressive push for agrofuel developments in Africa (known to many as "b...
Ethiopia: Free Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie!
2007-11-22
We are writing to ask your support for the release of two courageous Ethiopian civic and anti-poverty activists Daniel Bekele, the Head of Policy Research and Advocacy Department of ActionAid Ethiopia, and Netsanet Demessie, Executive Director and co...
Diakonia responds to the Supreme Court of Appeal judgement against Biowatch
Diakonia Council of Churches (2007-11-09)
Diakonia Council of Churches responds to the Supreme Court of Appeal judgement against Biowatch Diakonia Council of Churches joins in solidarity with other concerned groups and organisations in voicing its strongest possible objection to the recent r...
Somaliland: Governmentally-backed illegal extraordinary general assembly
Mubarik Ibrahim Aar (2007-10-30)
SHURO-NET PUBLIC STATEMENT Governmentally-backed illegal extraordinary general assembly An illegally conducted extraordinary general assembly claiming to represent Somaliland Human Rights Organisations Network (SHURO-net) was conducted on Thur...
Liberia: IMF Fails Liberia - Take Action Now
2007-10-26
The brutal regime of Samuel Doe ran up much of Liberia's illegitimate debt, with no benefit to the people of Liberia. Today, Liberia has a $4.5 billion debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and other creditors. During the years of...
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