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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 594: SHADOW WARS, PLUNDER, IDENTITY AND RESISTANCE The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Follow Pambazuka @pambazuka Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Comment & analysis, 3. Advocacy & campaigns, 4. Books & arts, 5. Cartoons /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features THE INCREASING US SHADOW WARS IN AFRICA Nick Turse Unbeknownst to most Americans and people around the world, the US has been steadily increasing its military footprint in Africa. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83724 ****** AN OPEN LETTER TO OBAMA Hakima Abbas 'Here you are, brother, caught in the wheels of history, part of processes that transform the world and part of systems that destroy it.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83747 ****** IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE SECOND REPUBLIC IN EGYPT Fatma Emam Whereas the new regime of President Morsy says it is inclusive, it is troubling that the draft Egyptian constitution says in its first article that Egypt is 'Islamic' and 'Arab' and is 'related' to Africa. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83742 ****** CRIMINALIZING SEX WORK IN KENYA: THE DOUBLE STANDARDS Joyce J Wangui 'Sex workers rights are human rights' - this is the slogan that Kenyan prostitutes are arming themselves with as they demand their rights. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83719 ****** BLOOD ANTIQUITIES IN RESPECTABLE HAVENS Looted Benin artefacts donated to American museum Kwame Opoku The people of Benin have tried for years to have their precious works of art returned to no avail. Now the artifacts have a new 'owner' in America. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83720 ****** INTERNAL SECURITY OFFICER NAMED IN UGANDA LAND DISPUTE Chris Musiime, Frederick Womakuyu and Nick Young Oil in Uganda A senior official in Uganda's Internal Security Organization (ISO), Major Herbert Asiimwe Muramagi, has been named in a complex land dispute in oil-rich Hoima District where, some locals allege, last year he bought 1,200 hectares from an entity that had no right to sell it. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83727 ****** 'THE JEWS OF OUR TIME?" Israel's deportation of the South Sudanese Mimi Kirk Just prior to the deportations, xenophobic manifestations of Israel's imperative to retain its Jewish majority were clear. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83751 ****** BETTER DIE DEFENDING YOUR RIGHTS THAN ACCEPT SLAVERY Fatuma Lamungu Nur The recent Nairobi conference by Kenya, IGAD, AU and UN is another misfortune that will remain in the hearts of many Somalis, and it's again showing how the international community is using a negative approach to resolve the crisis in Jubbaland regions. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83743 ****** EQUATORIAL GUINEA: UNESCO'S SHAMEFUL AWARD Legal questions, human rights concerns surround Obiang prize UNESCO's decision to issue a controversial prize sponsored by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea is disappointing and irresponsible, seven civil society groups said. A ceremony to award the prize was scheduled for July 17, 2012, in Paris. Obiang, in power for 33 years, leads a government known for corruption and repression. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83731 ****** LOUD SOUND OF SILENCE An ex-homeboy's account of life in a hitherto peaceful Nigerian city that is now blood-soaked Abdulrazaq Magaji 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. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83745 ****** SURFING SOUTH AFRICA'S MICRO-PROTEST WAVE Patrick Bond South Africa suffers from far too many activists who promote a localist ideology that begins and ends with the municipal councillor, city manager or mayor. There are too many turf-conscious leaders who look inward, failing to think globally while acting locally. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83735 ****** THE SCRAMBLE FOR NIGERIA Abdulrazaq Magaji The disastrous privatisation programme in Nigeria is the epitome of greed, avarice and corruption, benefitting a tiny elite at the expense of everyone else. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83746 ****** ON THE NEW AU BOSS AND SAVAGE DEMOLITIONS IN NIGERIA Sokari Ekine What hopes does the first female AU Commission chairperson raise? The Lagos government has demolished an old community, leaving some 2,500 homeless. And Fahamu's executive director writes to President Obama. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83732 ****** ETHIOPIAN MUSLIMS AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR RIGHTS Elyas Mulu Kiros Muslims have always enjoyed religious freedom like other believers - until recently. Now they are fighting to reclaim their rights. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83750 ****** PAKISTAN: HISTORIC VICTORY FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY Khalid Mahmood Thousands of textile workers have achieved a landmark victory for precarious and informal workers in Pakistan. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83749 ****** EUROPA, GENESE DA CORRUPCAO Jean-Paul Pougala "Os politicos sao todos corruptos" isso e o que sobressai de uma sondagem realizada na Franca pelo Instituto de Estudos de Marketing e Opiniao Internacional TNS-Sofres, publicada pelo Journal du Dimanche de 28/11/2011 a qual revela que 72% dos franceses acham os politicos franceses "mais corrompidos". http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/83725 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Comment & analysis A GUIDE TO HELPING AFRICA Mukoma Wa Ngugi Helping Africa has become a self-perpetuating for profit non-profit business. It has become what Teju Cole calls the white savior industrial complex. This does raise the questions, are there ways in which help can actually be useful? Where help can actually do more good than harm and offer more than miracle water? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/83733 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Advocacy & campaigns ANGOLA: PROTESTERS DETAINED, DISAPPEARED Press release: Pre-election environment marred by crackdown The Angolan government is targeting protest organizers for arbitrary arrest and detention in response to increasing demonstrations criticizing the government or its policies, Human Rights Watch says. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/83734 ****** DISPATCHES FROM THE AU SUMMIT, JULY 2012 Fahamu - Networks for Social Justice Read reports by four journalists whose trip to the AU Summit was part of the Emerging Powers in Africa initiative. http://fahamu.org/news ****** ETHIOPIA: INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION FOR USING TERRORISM LAW TO STIFLE FREE SPEECH Mohamed Keita Ethiopia's relentless clampdown on freedom of speech and dissent has sparked global outrage. A selection http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/83748 ****** KHAYELITSHA COMMUNITY PROTESTS AGAINST THE BUCKET SYSTEM Press Statement: Democratic Left Front and Progressive Youth Movement 16 July 2012 - From early this evening, the community of SST and the Progressive Youth Movement (PYM) in the Khayelitsha township of Cape Town has been in the midst of a mass action in front of the home of Amos Nkomeni, the ANC ward councilor for ward 93 in the City of Cape Town. Councillor Nkomeni's response to the community march to his house was arrogant and dismissive, instead of responding to the demand for an end to the degrading and dehumanising bucket system imposed by the City of Cape Town in the absence of decent sanitation at SST. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/83736 ****** NEW REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH HOTLINE LAUNCHED IN KENYA Women on Waves Unsafe abortion and post-partum hemorrhage are the main causes of maternal mortality in Kenya, so this hotline could save lives. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/83730 ****** URGENT APPEAL: RELEASE PROTESTOR MOHAMMED SALAH The Arab Spring has reached Sudan, and its democracy activists are being imprisoned and tortured Mohammed Salah's family Please support this appeal for the release of protestor Mohammed Salah, and join the solidarity movement below via: [email protected] http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/83729 ****** " NOUS MARCHERONS NUES PENDANT LE MOIS DE RAMADAN " Sory I. Konate Pour reclamer justice apres l'arrestation et la disparition de leurs peres et maris. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/83755 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Books & arts PAUL BIYA'S MACHIAVELLIAN REIGN OVER CAMEROON Peter Wuteh Vakunta A review of Michel Roger Emvana's Paul Biya: Les secrets du pouvoirs. Paris: Karthala. 2005. 290pp.Paper Back $58.45. 2-84586-684-4 http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/83726 ****** UNDESIRABLES: WHITE CANADA AND THE KOMAGATA MARU, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY Matthew Behrens A review of Ali Kazimi's new book (Douglas & McIntyre, 2012; $39.95) http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/83728 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Cartoons ORENGO'S SH0.5 MILLION SUIT Gado ****** TROUBLE IN CONGO, AGAIN Gado ****** WOMEN BISHOPS Gado ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ Fahamu - Networks For Social Justice http://www.fahamu.org Pambazuka News is published by Fahamu Ltd. (c) 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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