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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 626: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC & FIGHTING GLOBAL INEQUALITY AND INJUSTICE 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 /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: THE HIDDEN HANDS BEHIND ‘YET ANOTHER GOOD COUP’ Antoine Roger Lokongo An analysis of the factors that produced the recent coup d’etat in the Central African Republic reveals the interests of France, the US and neo-colonial African forces http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87025 ****** REFLECTIONS ON A PUTSCH ...WHAT IS FRANCE’S REAL ROLE? Avic Whatever the driving force behind this coup a feeling of déjà vu provokes suspicions. Even if Washington was behind this regime change, France was aware of the entire operation. The spokesperson of an armed group who calls news agencies from Paris is inevitably known by the secret services, and is given the green light to do so. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87045 ****** THE TRUTH ABOUT EXTREME GLOBAL INEQUALITY Jason Hickel The richest 300 people on earth have more wealth than the poorest 3 billion – almost half the world’s population. This is in part a result of neo-liberal policies that have ensured massive transfer of resources from the global South to the North http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87041 ****** CANADA VERSUS THE UN How vengeful politics connects poverty, food insecurity and the abuse of human rights Nidhi Tandon The UN Special Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter exposed the ‘appallingly poor’ record of the Canadian government on the abuse of the rights of Canada’s indigenous peoples. In a vengeful and contemptuous response the Canadian government withdrew from a United Nations convention that fights droughts and desertification. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87026 ****** REFUGEES UNITE AGAINST COLONIAL INJUSTICE Activists to prepare the International Tribunal against the Federal Republic of Germany Patrick Schukalla The EU’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012 contradicts the fact that its member countries are the biggest exporters of war and arms to the developing world and they are implementing harsh immigration and asylum polices. Protests by asylum seekers and refugees in Germany exposes these realities. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87024 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Comment & analysis REBELS AND LOVE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Okello Oculi France has over the decades been a key player in the violent drama of Central African Republic politics. But there are other interested parties involved. CAR is a case study of how neo-colonial greed can destroy a country http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87042 ****** THE PEOPLE SHALL OBEY Richard Pithouse President Zuma’s speech seemed to equate criticism of the government with disloyalty. The path to national glory has been laid out and no one should ask any questions http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87044 ****** THE STRUGGLE FOR MINIMUM WAGE IN OSUN STATE Kola Ibrahim For now, the Aregbesola-led Osun State government will be in euphoria for a major conquest of the labour movement with the bankrupt sell out of workers by their leaders over the full implementation of the nationally legislated N18, 000 minimum wage http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87051 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Advocacy & campaigns G8 COMMITMENT TO TACKLE IMPUNITY FOR RAPE IN CONFLICT WELCOMED BY HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS Although the declaration is a major political milestone in the struggle to end impunity for rape in war, not enough states have opened their doors to prosecuting grave breaches wherever they occur despite international law http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87049 ****** GALZ MESSAGE TO MARK ZIMBABWE’S 33RD ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE GALZ We are concerned that the state continues to vilify our kind and actively violates and harasses our kin. As a result our community lives in fear of violence and abuse http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87050 ****** JEWISH SECURITY ORGANIZATION VIOLENTLY ASSAULTS TWO WOMEN PROTESTERS BDS South Africa South African activists are pressing charges against the South African Jewish Community Security Organization (CSO), the South African Zionist Federation and the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) for the recent violent assault of two young women Palestine solidarity protesters (including the daughter of a senior member from South Africa's largest trade union federation, COSATU) . One Palestine solidarity protester was left in a state of concussion due to the assault injuries. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87022 ****** LAND RUSH IN EUROPE COMPARABLE WITH AFRICA, ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA Land grabbing is widely assumed to be happening only in the global South, but an in-depth analysis by a team of researchers shows that land grabbing is also expanding into Europe http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87023 ****** SWAZI CIVIL SOCIETY WARNS DIPLOMATS OF GOVERNMENT CLAMP DOWN Peter Kenworthy Africa Contact There is likely to be a crackdown on NGOs and movements ahead of the election. Political parties are illegal in Swaziland http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87048 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Books & arts MY HUSBAND IS A CUCKOO Review of ‘My Husband is a Cuckoo and Other Poems of My Youth’ by Esther Lamnyam. Createspace Independent Publishing, 2012, 76 pp. Paperback, $15.00. ISBN 147762340X Peter Wuteh Vakunta Lamnyam’s book of poems is a tribute to penmanship. She contends that poets are not dead wood, and attributes much leverage to the weight of her pen http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/87046 ****** REVIEW OF BIKO AGOZINO’S ‘TODAY NA TODAY’ Noel A. Ihebuzor The poems treat a broad range of contemporary social issues in Nigeria. The author has certainly enriched the literary world http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/87047 ****** WHEN ARTISTS DIE... Okachikwu Dibia Upon the death of an artist society loses sorely. But their works provide a continuing reflection on how to refine ourselves http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/87043 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 Jobs JOB ADVERT: HEAD – HORN OF AFRICA, SAFER WORLD Based in Nairobi Saferworld is an international non-governmental organisation working to prevent and reduce violence conflict and promote cooperative approaches to security. We believe that everyone should be able to lead peaceful, fulfilling lives, free from insecurity and violent conflict. We work with governments, civil society and international organisations globally and in over 15 countries in Africa, Europe and Asia. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/jobs/86965 /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 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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