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Journal of Peasant Studies
Africa: Africa Platform for Development Effectiveness launched
Africa: Twitter slowly returns

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Civic groups blast ZANU PF’s careless exhumations
Zimbabwe: High Court appeal in facebook case
Zimbabwe: NGOs call for end to harassment

South Africa

South Africa: Demand for basic school services goes out
South Africa: Independents ‘show middle finger’
South Africa: WikiLeaks exposes ANC election fears

Madagascar

Madagascar: Applying local resources to sanitation
Madagascar: Toward a new regulatory framework for agricultural investment
Madagascar: Community resistance to corporate land theft

Kenya

Kenya: HIV clinic targets East African truckers
Kenyans only tried in Kenya?
Kenyan Nubians: The forgotten people

Swaziland

Swaziland: Swazi government threatens facebookers
Swaziland: Cosatu to invade Swaziland
Lesotho: Swaziland, Lesotho signed EPA under duress

Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea: Police troops stop protests
Equatorial Guinea: US state department documents ongoing abuses

Egypt

Egypt: Double standards in justice
Restitution and recent upheavals in Egypt
Egypt: Post-Mubarak Egypt probes public land contracts

Liberia

Liberia: Call to enact law to protect women and girls from FGM
Liberia: Agencies grappling with refugee crisis
Liberia: Ivorian women struggle to survive in crowded refugee camp

Chad

Chad: Opposition quits election body, vote in doubt
Chad: Children conscripted by poverty

Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: 'Measles epidemic spiralling out of control' according to MSF
DRC: Moved on to a minefield

Tunisia

Tunisia: Former Tunisian ruling party loses appeal
Tunisia: Thousands stranded in 'appalling' conditions on Italian island
Will Swaziland become the next Tunisia or Egypt?

Somalia

Somalia: Journalists harassed, arrested
Somalia: Drought-displaced 'in tens of thousands'
Somalia: Deadly Red Sea migrant route now flows both ways

Burkina Faso

Popular protests in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso: GM cotton halts spread of organic cotton

Libya

Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt and Libya: Contested battles for support and attention
Libya: Call for investigation into rape allegations
Libya: First shots from the battle for Benghazi

Ethiopia

Ethiopia: A country for sale
Ethiopia: The art of war by mass distraction

Ghana

Ghana: Scholars’ seminar on global financial crisis and Africa ends in Accra
Ghana: Doctors fear coming rains will fuel cholera
Ghana: World Bank's privatisation approach fails to deliver

Malawi

Malawi: Cotton farmers happy at high prices
Malawi: Court stops council from shutting down university
Malawi: CODESRIA postpones colloquium due to abuses of academic freedom

Botswana

Botswana: Women in politics determined to succeed
Botswana: Shrinking space for free media

Zambia

Zambia: Women struggle for representation ahead of elections
Zambia: Chinese mine shooting case dropped

Nigeria

Nigerian elections: Is anyone talking to the masses?
Nigeria: President signs landmark human rights bill
Nigeria: What they're saying about the elections

Algeria

Algeria: Algerian women test the 'Arab Spring' winds
Algeria: Teachers clash with police
North African dispatches: Why Algeria is different

Morocco

Morocco: Rights organisations modernised
Morocco: Thousands demonstrate in Morocco for rights, justice

Togo

Côte d'Ivoire: Refugees reach Togo and Ghana

Niger

Niger: New parliament inaugurated
'Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petroviolence'

Cote d’Ivoire

Côte d’Ivoire: West African Immigrants Massacred
Côte d’Ivoire: Residents live in terror as rival forces battle for Abidjan
African solutions for Côte d’Ivoire: The deception of ‘no solution’

Uganda

Uganda: Women tricked into domestic slavery in Iraq
Uganda: Police detain opposition leader
Kenya: Activists denied Uganda entry

Mozambique

Mozambique: Food and fuel price increases, subsidies for poor
Mozambique: Police attack protesting workers
Mozambique: Will new measures curb popular anger?

Cameroon

Cameroon: Cameroonian reporter detained after questioning arrests
Cameroon: Cameroon trims electoral body's powers before vote

Tanzania

Tanzania: Arusha to host 2011grassroots women's land economy
Tanzania: Authorities urge caution on popular 'cure-all' herb

Senegal

Senegal: Fishermen mobilise against foreign boats

South Sudan

Sudan: Politics and transition in the new South Sudan
Sudan: About 34,000 people flee South Sudan clashes
South Sudan: Over 800 killed in south Sudan since January

Mali

Mali: Homophobia drives MSM underground

Rwanda

Rwanda: ARTICLE 19 calls for improvement in whistleblower law

Gambia

Gambia: Jammeh is a ‘brutal dictator who wants to cling to power by all means’
Gambia: Newspaper to resume publishing after five months of censorship

Djibouti

Djibouti: Why Djibouti matters
Djibouti: President Ismael Omar Guelleh wins third term

Namibia

Namibia: Students take action to end gender violence on campus

Angola

Angola: Journalist released on bail
Angola: Angola denies billions diverted by graft

Eritrea

Cancel treaties with Eritrean dictator Iseyas Afewerki

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