Pambazuka News 501: Integration or federation? Towards political unity for Africa

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Zimbabwe’s constitutional reform process is failing to represent the views of young people, who make up more than half the country’s population, writes the Youth Alliance for Democracy.

Miners work at the physical edges of our consumer society, writes Peter Bosshard from International Rivers, in this Huffington Post article. 'Like the canary in the mine shaft, they are sentinels for the triumph, toil and tragedy of the global economic system. Only days after the miraculous rescue of the Chilean miners, Chinese supervisors shot and wounded 11 workers in a coal mine in Zambia on 15 October. The labour conflict casts a dark shadow on the track record of Chinese overseas investo...read more

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In a speech marking the 33rd anniversary of Steve Biko’s death in detention, Veli Mbele, president of the Azanian Youth Organisation, looks at the lessons young black people can learn from Biko’s life and ideas.

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Far from being a panacea for fighting rural poverty, microcredit can impose additional burdens on the rural poor, without markedly improving their socio-economic condition, write Patrick Bond and Khorshed Alam.

The African Union (AU) is developing a map, detailing the rail, air, sea and navigable river systems in Africa to ease the future deployment of the African Standby Force in dealing with insecurity and armed conflicts, an AU official said Wednesday.

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