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------Original message------ From: Pambazuka Editor <[email protected]> To: "pambazuka-news" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013 6:11:48 PM GMT+0300 Subject: Pambazuka News 623: More on BRICS, Iraq 10 years on and rebuilding Haiti PAMBAZUKA NEWS 623: MORE ON BRICS, IRAQ 10 YEARS ON AND REBUILDING HAITI 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. Letters & Opinions, 5. Jobs /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features BRICS LESSONS FROM DURBAN... If you carve Africa, Africa may carve you Patrick Bond and Khadija Sharife As the BRICS state bureaucrats and corporate interests met in Durban this week to plan how to continue to extract profits, the tragedy of thirteen SA National Defense Force troops in the Central African Republic lost their lives in a vain attempt to safeguard potential mining deals. A different way is needed in which people-led activism challenges and transforms vulture capitalism http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86761 ****** CHALLENGES OF THE BRICS William Gumede In order to prevent the BRICS from ending up as a talking shop they will have to work hard at forestalling the potential for them to become fierce competitors. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86747 ****** SCRAMBLE, RESISTANCE AND A NEW BRICS NON-ALIGNMENT STRATEGY Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros It is necessary to pose what role do the BRICS as semi-peripheries play in the internationalization of production; to what extent are they anti-systemic and anti-imperialist? It is necessary to rekindle a new strategy of non-alignment by the BRICS to not only reject the military hegemony of the North, but to enable a larger degree of maneuver for national development. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86746 ****** BRICS COOK THE CLIMATE Patrick Bond The BRICS are surpassing the US and the EU in terms of emissions of greenhouse gases. The Durban summit was an opportune moment to ask and answer many questions regarding the BRICS' economic strategies and to radically reduce their levels of emissions. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86743 ****** BRICS GRAB AFRICAN LAND AND SOVEREIGNTY Tomaso Ferrando BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86748 ****** FROM NEPAD TO BRICS South Africa's toll at the 'gateway to Africa' Patrick Bond The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) that was launched in 2001 is revealing for showing the four other BRIC countries how South Africa seeks to serve as 'a gateway for investment on the continent.' From Nepad to Brics, South Africa's toll at the 'gateway to Africa' is high, and there is very little to show for it. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86745 ****** THE WAR AGAINST IRAQ AND THE PEOPLES OF AFRICA Ten years and war implications still pertinent Horace G. Campbell Many people now understand that the war against the people of Iraq was an imperialist war. This is an important point at a time when the same fabrication of terrorism is being propagated to justify the expansion of the US war and military campaign in Africa. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86749 ****** WATER, CHOLERA AND SILENCE ON SHIT Sokari Ekine The state of waste management and sanitation is catastrophic in Haiti after the earthquake. Things are likely to worsen as there are no plans for any improvements. International NGOs are leaving or scaling down - after making their money http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/86750 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Comment & analysis HENRY OKAH: JUDICIAL AND POLITICAL PLUNDERS BY TRIAL JUDGE Sabella Ogbobode Abidde Henry Okah was this week jailed for 24 years by a South African court for the bombings in Abuja, Nigeria, in 2010. The trial raises a number of important issues. The judge was hardly thorough, professional and impartial in handling of the case. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/86753 ****** UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE KENYAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Eric Gitari and Ann Njogu The just concluded election in Kenya has been hailed for being peaceful. But there are serious allegations about the conduct of the polls, which are the basis of two cases before the Supreme Court. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/86755 ****** A DICTATOR'S LAST LAUGH Ngugi wa Thiong'o It was Former President Moi who spawned the winners of Kenya's presidential election. The sycophancy and corruption of his era are still ingrained in the political culture and were embodied by the rise of his allies in this election. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/86758 ****** 2013 ELECTIONS REDEFINED KENYA'S POLITICAL NARRATIVE Nathan Wangusi The recent elections showed that tribe is not the main driver of politics in Kenya. But while progress has been made, the fight for democracy has yet to be won, with minority communities, women, the disabled and the Diaspora remaining largely underrepresented http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/86752 ****** EXTERNAL FORCES OUT TO KILL LATEST DRC PEACE EFFORT Antoine Roger Lokongo The agreement signed in Addis Ababa last month enjoining states in the region in the search for lasting peace in DRC is a welcome move. But there are powerful external players who want the instability to continue. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/86762 ****** DISSENT AS A HIGHER FORM OF PATRIOTISM Peter Wuteh Vakunta 'I deplore what I regard as a growing tendency among Cameroonians to equate expression of dissent with lack of patriotism. I insist that to criticize one's country is in itself an act of patriotism.' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/86754 ****** SOMALIA: TIME TO CATCH UP WITH THE REST OF AFRICA Bashir Goth Somalia is on the road to recovery after more than two decades of collapse. Now is the time for all the citizens to help the government achieve its goals by being patient and tolerant. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/86756 ****** SEARCHING FOR THE TRANSFORMATION IN LIBERIA The challenges and contradictions of redistributing power and national wealth Ali D Kaba Until politicians, economic elites and citizens sincerely address complex and sensitive policy challenges in Liberia, the quest for national development and identity might remain an elusive dream packaged in shiny slogans. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/86757 ****** THE CASE FOR STRATEGIC COALITION BUILDING IN CIVIL SOCIETY Dale T. McKinley After many years of lack of broad-based civil society coalitions, there now exist new spaces and places in South Africa for progressive civil society to reclaim a unity of strategic purpose and action. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/86751 ****** UNVILLIFYING THE BLACK ATHLETE A lesson in leadership, God and perseverance in the case of Ray Lewis Kevin L. Brooks and Judson L. Jeffries That Black athletes work hard to hone their craft is unfathomable to some Whites. It is therefore important to showcase Black males who have overcome adversity and, in the process, become models of inspiration, leadership and perseverance. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/86763 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Advocacy & campaigns AFRICAN COMMISSION FINDS ZIMBABWE RESPONSIBLE FOR TORTURE OF RIGHTS LAWYER REDRESSS The lawyer submitted more than adequate evidence to support his allegation of torture and ill-treatment, including being subjected to prolonged electric shocks in the mouth, genitals, fingers, toes and other parts of the body http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/86765 ****** EGYPT HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR FAILING TO PROTECT WOMEN PROTESTERS Commission tells Egyptian government to compensate women as well as to investigate the assaults and punish those responsible http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/86768 ****** SWAZI YOUTH TO LAUNCH CAMPAIGN AGAINST 'UNDEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS' Peter Kenworthy The youth describe the upcoming elections as undemocratic and meaningless because they will simply consolidate the monarch's absolute power http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/86766 ****** THE FESTIVAL OF PESACH (PASSOVER): OUR FREEDOM IS UNFULFILLED WHILE OTHERS ARE OPPRESSED Press statement from Jewish South Africans during Pesach/Passover Jewish South Africans Jewish people will be celebrating 'freedom' whilst complicit in the oppression of the Palestinian people http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/86767 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Letters & Opinions CHINUA ACHEBE: OUR EAGLE LIVES ON... Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe Our Eagle on the Iroko has flown home... No, not really... Our Eagle is right here - with us. Our Eagle lives on. This has been the solemn promise made since age 28 with 'Things Fall Apart' and followed by the unrelenting, exemplifying rigour of the entire consummate stretch of discourses and reflections and yet more discourses during the course of 54 subsequent years that culminated in that towering testament of our age, 'There was a Country'. Our Eagle lives on. Focusing on the Eagle's first discourse, a classic, Kwame Anthony Appiah, literary scholar and philosopher, has argued: 'It would be impossible to say how 'Things Fall Apart' influenced African writing. It would be like asking how Shakespeare influenced English writers or Pushkin influenced Russians. Achebe didn't only play the game, he invented it'. Chinua Achebe has indeed run a great race. Ka Chukwu anyi gozie his blessed soul and give comfort to his loving family. Odogwu Mmadu, ije oma. Our pledge at this time: Igbo will be free and we will surely bring to a halt this ongoing genocide against our people, which started on 29 May 1966, and we will transform Igboland to an advanced state and society as duly resolved in the Ahiara Declaration. ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Jobs JOB ADVERT: CAMPAIGNER - NORTH AFRICA Amnesty International We're looking for a Campaigner to contribute to our campaign against human rights violations in North Africa. Working at the International Secretariat, you will contribute to a range of projects, including Amnesty International's response to the momentous changes in North Africa witnessed in 2011 and 2012. 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