Pambazuka News 729: Ritual democracy and a people betrayed

His Excellence Mr Mohammed Salem Ould Salek, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Saharawi Arab democratic Republic

Keynote address: The latest development on the question of Western Sahara

Date: Friday 12 June 2015
Time: 14:00-16:00
Venue: Forum 150, HSRC, 134 Pretorious Street, Pretoria

Ambassador Maitland, Chief Director of the Central and North Africa Directorate at DIRCO
Presentation title: A renewed role of the African Union in Western Sahara

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The returnees came from Yemen, haggard and tired, seeking only peace and tranquility. But the Somaliland regime refused them entry. What a shame!

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This is a day of meditation and remembrance in every Igbo household anywhere in the world for the 3.1 million murdered; for gratitude and thanksgiving for those who survived, and the collective Igbo rededication to achieve sovereignty.

Joint statement of the Civil Society Organizations Reference Group (CSORG) and the National Civil Society Congress (NCSC) on the continued state harassment and intimidation of human rights organisations and the alleged deregistration of Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), Haki Africa and the Agency for Peace and Development in the pretext of fighting terrorism.

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