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Ethiopia’s Karayu pastoralists have called upon the government to step up its efforts to assist them and protect their rights in consultation with community representatives. The Karayu have lost much of their ancestral pastoral lands to commercial farming interests, agro-industry and for use as nature parks and game reserves, leaving their traditional nomadic livelihoods threatened and offering them little alternative means of survival. Representatives have called for a share in new opportunities and for efforts to ensure the possibility to continue traditional practices and pastoralist lifestyles.

The Freedom of Expression Institute has written to the University of Pretoria protesting the planned holding of a conference 'Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Africa' to be jointly hosted by the University's Centre for International Political Studies and the Embassy of the United States of America in Pretoria, at the Sanlam Auditorium on Tuesday March 23, 2004. “It is inappropriate that a public institution like the University of Pretoria should host a conference on a matter of such profound public importance behind closed doors. It is also difficult to understand why speakers - who one would imagine would be committed to the basic tenants of academic freedom - would agree to participate under such conditions. What do they have to hide if they are really committed to open debate?”