Pambazuka News 253: Cote d'Ivoire: the flame that guarantees immobilisation

Mozambique is the latest favourite of the international community, following in the footsteps of disgraced Uganda which held the position in the 80s and 90s. Tajudeen Abdul Raheem scrapes away the veneer of growth rates and donor funding to look at issues of governance and accountability. He concludes with news about the African Monitor, launched this week to monitor whether development promises are being kept by both donor and recipient nations.

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On 13 April 2006, armed militias on horses and camels, numbering more than five hundred attacked and looted Karamagay village in North East Nyala, Southern Darfur State. During the attack, the militias killed 15 people and wounded 11 others. The militias also looted over 517 cows, 850 sheep, 720 goats, 22 horses, 60 donkeys and 8 camels.

FEATURED: Following last week’s article on Côte d’Ivoire, Yveline Dévérin continues to unravel the complex political situation in the country
COMMENT AND ANALYSIS:
- Interview with Prof. Ernest Wamba dia Wamba on the situation in the DRC
- World Press Freedom Day: Internet censorship on the rise?
- World Press Freedom Day: Cameroonian journalist Pius Njawe on his 126 arrests
LETTERS: On Charles Taylor and Wole Soyinka
BLOGGING AFRICA: Blog columnist Sokari ...read more

HIV/Aids in Southern Africa is under-reported, the voices of those most affected are least heard and the gender dimensions of the pandemic are not well reflected. This is according to a study released by the Media Monitoring Project and Gender Links in Johannesburg on Wednesday - which is also World Press Freedom Day - at a launch of the HIV/Aids and Gender Baseline Study and Media Resource Desk.

The mass media in the US, France and Britain are writing a great deal about the suffering in the Darfur region of western Sudan and the tensions between the Sudanese government and neighboring Chad. Not surprisingly, they write very little about the economic interests these three imperialist countries have in the oil recently discovered in this part of Africa.
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