Pambazuka News 663: The woman, the dragon and black madness

The measure of a man is not how he died, but how he lived his life. Not what he gained, but what he gave. The greatest thing in life is to live for a purpose

The hype around the ANC manifesto launch on the Sat 11th January had hardly died down when a mere two days later three protestors lay dead in the streets of Mothotlung

Concern is growing at the secrecy surrounding deals struck between Haitian government and US and Canadian mining companies over the country’s estimated £12bn gold, silver and copper deposits

President Kiir has several times in the past pledged not to take South Sudan back to war. He needs to demonstrate this now by doing everything in is power to end the current bloody crisis

It is been a long journey of personal reflection and discovery for the Moroccan filmmaker and human rights activist who now rejects and campaigns openly against his country’s unlawful and brutal occupation of Western Sahara, Africa’s last colony

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