Pambazuka News 594: Shadow wars, plunder, identity and resistance

Ethiopia’s relentless clampdown on freedom of speech and dissent has sparked global outrage. A selection

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‘Here you are, brother: Caught in the wheels of history, part of processes that transform the world and part of systems that destroy it.’

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The disastrous privatisation programme in Nigeria is the epitome of greed, avarice and corruption, benefitting a tiny elite at the expense of everyone else.

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While military action may quell the eruption of violence and killing in northern Nigeria, effective action to tackle poverty is needed to rebuild a lasting peace.

The early results of Libya's parliamentary election show a liberal party in first place in the country's first free vote since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. The election commission on Tuesday said the National Forces Alliance (NFA), led by Mahmoud Jibril, the former interim prime minister, secured 39 of the 80 open seats. Those projections also meant the NFA won only 20 per cent of seats in the 200-seat assembly.

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