http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/516/Mamdouh-Habashi_tmb.jpg [mp3], vice-president of the World Forum for Alternatives and board member of the Arab and African Research Centre in Cairo. Habashi explains the causes behind the recent popular uprising in Egypt, the crisis of democracy that led to its creation and its potential and weaknesses as a ‘movement without a head’. Egypt, he says, does not have a real democracy, despite the presence of unions, elections and a so-called political opposition. But despite having the biggest and most powerful anti-demonstration police in the world, the government was unable to contain the people’s movement.

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/516/rkia_bllot_tmb.jpgIn Morocco, women from a number of different ethnic groups experience great difficulties accessing collective land. [mp3], living in the suburbs of Kenitra, 50 kilometres from Rabat, explains to Zahra Moloo how the patriarchal system in place excludes women from accessing land. Bllot says that the while the land belongs to the Hededa ethnic group, only married men have access to land. All the women are excluded - the women live in slums while their brothers live in proper houses.

http://www.pambazuka.org/images/articles/516/sam_moyo_tmb.jpg [mp3]. Moyo talks about the successes and contradictions of Zimbabwe’s land redistribution strategy in the context of agrarian reform and the media’s tendency to misrepresent the issue, including continued accusations that only the elite have benefitted from the country's land redistribution programme. He says that in fact the degree of land distribution which took place benefitted a large number of people in Zimbabwe.