Pambazuka News 644: Is Africa rising? Egypt, dreams of freedom, election thieves

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Egypt appears to be following the bloody path of Algeria in the early 1990s. The leaderless revolution of 2011 has been coopted by the military yet requires the demise of the terrorizing capitalist world system that encourages both military regimes and authoritarian populisms

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The Congolese army has been flexing its muscles in killing hundreds of Rwandan and Ugandan soldiers in eastern Congo. Demonstrations by the Congolese masses have taken place as well as a new cooperation agreement among some countries in the Great Lakes region

Western Sahara Resource Watch has launched a report detailing how Morocco intends to build over 1000 MW of renewable energy plants in Western Sahara, a territory that Morocco partially occupies

The life expectancy of Afro-Brazilians is lower than that of other groups, and homicides are the principal cause of death for Black males between the ages of 15 and 29 years and who, often, live in poor urban settlements

For the past 25 years or so, Sudanese women regardless of their race, religion, age or background, have suffered degrading treatment and humiliation under the Public Order Code of 1996, which changed in 2009 to The Society Safety Code

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