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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 553: NATO OCCUPIES LIBYA; FAMINE, GENOCIDE AND THE SENEGALESE SPRING The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts, 6. Letters & Opinions, 7. African Writers’ Corner /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features DEATH OF GADDAFI Horace Campbell Gaddafi's killing - with all the hallmarks of a 'coordinated assassination' – marks 'one more episode ion this NATO war in Libya and North Africa', writes Horace Campbell. The 'remilitarisation of Africa and new deployment of Africom is a new stage of African politics,' says Campbell. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77292 ****** SOMALIA: MANUFACTURING A FAMINE How the crisis became a fund-raising opportunity Rasna Warah WFP has conducted an 'aggressive fundraising campaign to cover the needs of south and central Somalia till the end of the year.' But what are those needs, and who is assessing them, asks Rasna Warah. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77259 ****** GERMAN DENIAL OF HERERO GENOCIDE Skulls returned to Namibia Saunders Jumah The return of skulls of Namibians by Germany rekindled painful memories of European colonialism in Africa and the continuing struggle to make the continent really free, writes Saunders Jumah. Africa must now support Namibia to demand apologies and reparations from Germany. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77234 ****** MOROCCO CONTINUES ATTACKS ON WESTERN SAHARA Detained Saharawis tortured and forced to sign confessions Peter Kenworthy Despite a media blackout and a ban on visits to the occupied Western Sahara, there is evidence of Moroccan authorities torturing many of the Saharawis they have detained, reports Peter Kenworthy. The commonest methods include beatings, electric shocks and threats of rape. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77231 ****** A SENEGALESE SPRING? The June 23 Movement and democracy in Senegal Ella Scheepers Ella Scheepers wonders whether the June 23 Movement in Senegal suggests a growing recognition that achieving political and social change requires collective consciousness and organisation, and cannot rely solely on the short-term impact of street protests or the individual efforts of any one party. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77235 ****** EGYPT: DIARY OF A REVOLUTION Part Two Gabriele Habashi Gabriele Habashi gives a gripping account of her experience during the final days of the protests that toppled former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. It is the story of a people who had detested oppression and decided to liberate themselves. Read Part 1 here ( http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/76550 ) . http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77237 ****** POPULAR SOCIALIST ALLIANCE: NEW LEFTIST PARTY IN EGYPT An interview by Lillian Boctor Ola Shahba Lillian Boctor speaks to Egyptian activist Ola Shahba ( http://bit.ly/nwxERc ) [MP3] about the Popular Socialist Alliance Party, their vision for Egyptian society, the coming wave of the Revolution and the upcoming elections. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77291 ****** SOUTH AFRICAN SHACKDWELLERS: ‘WE ARE ALL S’BU ZIKODE’ Abahlali baseMjondolo Following threats against S’bu Zikode, leader of South African shackdwellers movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, by the chair of a municipal housing committee, the group has called on democrats across the country to support Zikode and other activists ‘facing imtimidation and repression’. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77257 ****** STATEMENT ON THREATS MADE TO S'BU ZIKODE Bishop Rubin Phillip For genuine partnership to be be built between local government and South African shackdwellers' movement Abahlali base Mojondolo, it must be on the basis of respect for all people, writes Bishop Rubin Phillip. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77274 ****** FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHT TO WORK Organising the unemployed in South Africa Jeanne Hefez Organising the unemployed is a full time job - one the Unemployed People's Movement in South Africa is making it's own. Jeanne Hefez talks to UPM organisers about the challenges they face. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77266 ****** UBUNTU BLUES: WE ARE ALL ZIMBABWEANS Charles Nhamo Rupare Charles Nhamo Rupare discusses xenophobic attacks in South Africa and the concept of ubuntu. 'We are all children of Afrika and our future is in our actions and relations,' he writes. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77267 ****** NOT REPORTING ANGOLA Why nation is ignored by international media Lara Pawson As a British journalist based in London, Lara Pawson says she feels increasingly uneasy about media representations of the politics and people of southern Africa. She even wonders whether international journalism serves any purpose any more. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77229 ****** SEXUAL PREFERENCES ARE A PRIVATE MATTER Tapera Kapuya ‘We might not agree with other people’s sexual preferences. But where these preferences are confined to consenting adults, they really are of no business to any other person,’ argues Tapera Kapuya http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77254 ****** DEVELOPMENT VS HUMAN RIGHTS: WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE? Khadija Sharife Government ‘development’ schemes don’t always take into account the interests of the people affected by them. How do we decide whether or not the ‘right to development’ should take precedence over human and people’s rights, asks Khadija Sharife. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77256 ****** SAVING AFRICA’S FREE TRADE AREA FROM FAILURE William Gumede Africa’s attempt to create a continent-wide free trade area may end in failure like so many other previous regional developmental schemes, unless leaders do things differently, writes William Gumede. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/77279 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements BOOK LAUNCH: 'FROM CITIZEN TO REFUGEE: UGANDA ASIANS COME TO BRITAIN' Pambazuka Press http://southasianlitfest.com/program/from-citizen-to-refugee/ The DSC South Asian Literature Festival and Pambazuka Press present >From Citizen to Refugee: The Indians of Uganda. Join Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond and Firoze Manji as they explore the expulsion of Indians from Uganda and tackle many unanswered questions: what was it like to be an Asian in Uganda at the time of President Idi Amin's historic decision? What were the stories of people who left their homes to journey to new lands? This event marks the launch of Mahmood Mamdani's book 'From Citizen to Refugee: Uganda Asians Come to Britain ( http://fahamubooks.org/book/?GCOI=90638100176320 ) ' which explores the experiences of Uganda’s Asians and tells of their camps’ political culture. 12pm, 23 October, at the Chelsea Theatre, 7 World's End Place, London ****** CESSATION THREAT DELAYED, NOT WITHDRAWN Fahamu protection campaign continues: Rwandan refugees in Africa need legal representation to defend against deportation Fahamu Despite a partial victory for Fahamu and others who have raised the alarm over stripping tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees of protection, individuals and organisations are still encouraged to endorse an international civil society petition ( http://bit.ly/oURkWu ) to halt the measure. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/77253 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis ‘HOPE AND CHALLENGE’: A LITTLE KNOWN PART OF TUNISIA'S HISTORIC ELECTION Amanda Sebestyen In the run-up to Tunisia’s first free elections on 23 October, Amanda Sebeysten shares the manifesto of a small independent party, linked to an association of unemployed graduates in in Kasserine, a town in the country’s interior which lost the largest number of lives in the revolution. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/77284 ****** KENYA AND THE ICC: THE POWER OF APOLOGY Shailja Patel Sureta Chana, defence lawyer for victims of post-election violence in the ICC trials, helped prosecute scores of Kenyan’s for sedition under the Moi regime. Shouldn’t she make an apology to the people she herself harmed, asks Shailja Patel. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/77255 ****** OCCUPY GRAHAMSTOWN: HOPE FOR SOUTH AFRICA’S LEFT? Ben Fogel The Occupy Grahamstown demonstration on 15 October ‘shows that radical students and the poor can form a political alliance based upon equality and solidarity,’ writes Ben Fogel from Rhodes University. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/77283 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns AFRICA REGION 2: DECLARATION OF THE VIA CAMPESINA TRAINING ON AGRO-ECOLOGY Via Campesina A group of 30 African smallholder farmers who participated at a Via Campesina training on agro-ecology in Ghana have issued the following statement, reaffirming their commitment to food sovereignty. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/77272 ****** CIVIL SOCIETY CONTINUES FIGHT AGAINST LAND GRABBING Wilma Strothenke A press release ( http://www.fian.org/news/press-releases/civil-society-continues-fight-against-land-grabbing ) on World Food Sovereignty Day http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/77227 ****** END OF BARRICK GOLD’S LAWSUIT Écosociété settles out of court Écosociété After a three and a half year legal battle, Canadian publisher Les Éditions Écosociété has reached an out-of-court settlement with multinational mining company Barrick Gold. Écosociété has now ceased publication of the book ‘Noir Canada’, which analyses the controversial activities of Canadian companies in Africa, in order to end the $6m proceedings the corporation had launched against it. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/77280 ****** THE BLUE PLANET PROJECT SEEKS LOCAL REPORTS ON RIGHT TO WATER Earlier this year, the Blue Planet Project launched Maude Barlow's report: ‘Our Right to Water: A People's Guide to Implementing the United Nations' Recognition of Water and Sanitation as a Human Right ( http://canadians.org/water/documents/RTW/RTW-intl-web.pdf ) ’. The Blue Planet Project is calling for domestic right to water plans that will form a local sixth chapter to Maude Barlow's five-chapter report. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/77269 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Books & arts REVIEW: ‘FANONIAN PRACTICES IN SOUTH AFRICA’ Percy Mabandu Nigel Gibson’s book is a ‘refreshing and imaginative reading of Frantz Fanon’s groundbreaking thoughts regarding the theory and practice of revolutionary transformation,’ writes Percy Mabandu. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/77260 ****** RWANDA 17 YEARS LATER: WHAT IS THE TRUTH? Gerald Caplan In this book review, Gerald Caplan takes a critical look at ‘Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence ( http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4876.htm ) ’, edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf and published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2011. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/77258 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 6 Letters & Opinions DECADE OF PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT APPEAL LETTER - SIGN ON ASAP Kali Akuno 'We are trying to get as many organizations as possible to sign onto this appeal letter by Thursday, October 20th,' writes Kali Akuno. Please email all endorsements to kakuno[AT]ushrnetwork.org. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/letters/77282 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 7 African Writers’ Corner I ALMOST LOST MY SELF!! Mama C. It used to amaze me that even though Pre-dreadlocked, Dressed in khanga from head to toe, Carrying my babies on my back Basket on my head Chewing sugar cane sticks And pepper sprinkled muhogo roasts… Just like everybody else… http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/77281 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. © Unless otherwise indicated, all materials published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. 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