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Pambazuka News 202: Senegal’s political crisis and threats to democracy
2011-08-16, Issue 545
http://pambazuka.org/en/category/summaryfr/75744
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Senegal: The Balkanisation of the rule of law, justice under threat and the republic in danger
Aboubacry Mbodji
Senegal’s political crisis is the result of several factors linked to the derailment of the principles of the rule of law that require the separation and independence of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the state, the equality of all citizens before law and the respect of the sovereignty of the people. Ten years of political alternation have led to a ‘patrimonialisation’ of power and the concentration of power in a single family, which according to Aboubacry Mbodji ‘is a serious danger to the republic’. This is the real meaning of the revolts taking place in the country.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75678
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Can the independence of South Sudan inspire anglophone Cameroon?
Patrice Nganang
The independence of South Sudan on 9 July this year marked the birth of the 54th African nation. This also marks the second time, after Eritrea, that the principle of the inviolability of colonial borders has been flouted, a precedent that according to Patrice Nganang could be applied to anglophone Cameroon.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75680
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Aid for Somalia: The Africa we dream of
Jean-Baptiste Placca
At their summit in Addis Ababa in July 2011, African Union heads of state called for a general mobilisation to help the estimated 12 million people threatened by famine in the Horn of Africa. This African mobilisation, says Jean Baptiste Placca, is a sign of hope.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75679
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Why is emergency aid insufficient?
Renaud Duterme
If charity were enough to abolish misery and exploitation, says Renaud Duterme, we would be living in an idyllic world. The crisis in Somalia, he argues, shows yet again that the concepts of solidarity practised by development organisations are the wrong solutions.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75684
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Morocco: The mood of the people living in rural and mountainous areas
Omar Aziki
Well before the protest movements that have swept Morocco since February, there were protests in several rural regions of the country throughout the years of 2008, 2009 and 2010. The latest developments show that lessons have been learned from the struggles of marginalised rural people. Omar Aziki underlines the great capacity of resistance, shown especially by the women, and this despite the simplicity of their demands.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75683
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Normalisation and its effects on producers in the global South
Normalisation is increasingly visible in international commercial transactions whose complexity constitutes an obstacle in the access to European markets by countries in the global South. The solution proposed by the organisation ‘Engineers without frontiers’ is to rethink the way these norms are conceived with the active involvement of southern countries.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75681
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South Africa: Nuclear energy will be our ruin
Glenn Ashton
The technocrats are calling the shots and nuclear energy is once again on the table in South Africa. How was the 2008 moratorium put into question? How has nuclear energy, hitherto considered too expensive, suddenly become affordable? A story with many twists.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75685
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Aboubacry Mbodji
Senegal’s political crisis is the result of several factors linked to the derailment of the principles of the rule of law that require the separation and independence of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the state, the equality of all citizens before law and the respect of the sovereignty of the people. Ten years of political alternation have led to a ‘patrimonialisation’ of power and the concentration of power in a single family, which according to Aboubacry Mbodji ‘is a serious danger to the republic’. This is the real meaning of the revolts taking place in the country.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75678
******
Can the independence of South Sudan inspire anglophone Cameroon?
Patrice Nganang
The independence of South Sudan on 9 July this year marked the birth of the 54th African nation. This also marks the second time, after Eritrea, that the principle of the inviolability of colonial borders has been flouted, a precedent that according to Patrice Nganang could be applied to anglophone Cameroon.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75680
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Aid for Somalia: The Africa we dream of
Jean-Baptiste Placca
At their summit in Addis Ababa in July 2011, African Union heads of state called for a general mobilisation to help the estimated 12 million people threatened by famine in the Horn of Africa. This African mobilisation, says Jean Baptiste Placca, is a sign of hope.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75679
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Why is emergency aid insufficient?
Renaud Duterme
If charity were enough to abolish misery and exploitation, says Renaud Duterme, we would be living in an idyllic world. The crisis in Somalia, he argues, shows yet again that the concepts of solidarity practised by development organisations are the wrong solutions.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75684
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Morocco: The mood of the people living in rural and mountainous areas
Omar Aziki
Well before the protest movements that have swept Morocco since February, there were protests in several rural regions of the country throughout the years of 2008, 2009 and 2010. The latest developments show that lessons have been learned from the struggles of marginalised rural people. Omar Aziki underlines the great capacity of resistance, shown especially by the women, and this despite the simplicity of their demands.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75683
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Normalisation and its effects on producers in the global South
Normalisation is increasingly visible in international commercial transactions whose complexity constitutes an obstacle in the access to European markets by countries in the global South. The solution proposed by the organisation ‘Engineers without frontiers’ is to rethink the way these norms are conceived with the active involvement of southern countries.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75681
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South Africa: Nuclear energy will be our ruin
Glenn Ashton
The technocrats are calling the shots and nuclear energy is once again on the table in South Africa. How was the 2008 moratorium put into question? How has nuclear energy, hitherto considered too expensive, suddenly become affordable? A story with many twists.
http://www.pambazuka.org/fr/category/features/75685
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