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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 628: UNMASKING TERRORISM IN IMPERIALISM AND CAPITALISM 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. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. African Writers' Corner /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 1 Features MADE IN BANGLADESH: THE TERROR OF CAPITALISM Vijay Prashad The workers' tragedy in Dhaka provides a peek into the landscape of globalization that is mimicked in factories along the US-Mexico border, in Haiti, in Sri Lanka, and in other places that opened their doors to the global garment industry's savvy use of the new manufacturing and trade order of the 1990s http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87221 ****** NIGERIA: FINDING ANSWERS BEYOND KANO BUS BOMBING Osita Ebiem Nigeria is unworkable as one nation-state because of intractable internal ethnic rivalries and the deeply rooted determination of the north to Islamise everyone. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87220 ****** AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY An open letter to the Cultural Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany Safia Dickersbach How can the German Federal Cultural Foundation believe that 2 million Euros will promote cultural relations with the whole continent of Africa (and not even involve the Africans in the process)? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87227 ****** THE FRENCH, THE UN AND THE IVORY COAST Gary K Busch With the violent overthrow of democratically elected President Gbagbo, Ivory Coast has reverted to its old status of a French colony in fact. The hands of French, Western and UN officials drip with the blood of Ivorians http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87217 ****** PALESTINE, ISRAELI FOREIGN POLICY AND THE PAN-AFRICAN MOVEMENT Rooted in imperialism and racist ideology, Zionism is a bulwark of Western domination Abayomi Azikiwe Liberation movements, progressive governments, left parties, peace and anti-war organizations, solidarity coalitions and social justice groups must continue their support and alliances with the Palestinian people, the resistance forces and the progressive states throughout the Middle-East http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87219 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Announcements MAY 2013 ISSUE OF THE FAHAMU REFUGEE LEGAL AID NEWSLETTER The May 2013 issue of the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter is now available: http://frlan.tumblr.com/post/49348771039/may-2013 Please help us distribute it, and consider contributing in the future. You can also like our Facebook page, and follow us on Twitter! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Announce/87218 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Comment & analysis MENELIK EDUCATION'S POSITION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN DRC Dr Theodore Menelik-Mfuni Brutal crimes of violence against women and girls have massively increased and become pervasive in the country. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87230 ****** NIGERIA'S AMNESTY AND ITS INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS Okachikwu Dibia The decision by the Jonathan administration to grant amnesty to Boko Haram does not inspire much hope, given that similar steps have not solved the problem of militant groups in the past. A national congress on the future of Nigeria is needed http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87225 ****** RACIST MOTIVE OF BOSTON MARATHON BOMBERS? Biko Agozino The bombers may have dreamt of finding the final solution to the domination of their chosen sports by people of African descent http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87229 ****** SHOULD KENYA LEAVE HER OIL IN THE SOIL? Martin Oulu With the recent discovery of oil in Kenya there needs to be a debate as to whether the country follows the path of Ecuador and Norway and leave the oil in the soil or the environmentally and people damaging path of oil exploration in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87222 ****** SOMALIA'S PRIORITY: NATIONAL INTEGRATION FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY Mohamud M Uluso More international talks on Somalia are lined up; international financial institutions are ready for business with the recovering nation...All this portends good for Somalia and Somalis should not squander this chance to restore their nation to peace and prosperity http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87226 ****** SWAZILAND: PRESS FREEDOM CRISIS Richard Rooney Freedom of the press and the existence of political parties do not exist in Africa's only kingdom of Mswati III of Swaziland. The fine imposed on the publisher of the Nation magazine by the Swazi High Court continues the suffocation of the Swazi press and journalists. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87223 ****** WATCHING AMERICAN DIPLOCRISY IN ETHIOPIA Diplomacy by hypocrisy is 'diplocrisy' Alemayehu G Mariam The US has been practicing diplocrisy in Ethiopia for the past two decades. It has propped up the regime of the late Meles Zenawi with billions of dollars of 'development' and 'humanitarian' aid while filling the stomachs of starving Ethiopians with empty words and emptier promises. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87224 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Advocacy & campaigns KCA CALLS FOR ENHANCED SECURITY FOR JOURNALISTS AND RESPECT FOR LABOUR RIGHTS Oloo Janak Kenya Correspondents Association Whereas Kenya enjoys considerable media freedom, there are frequent reports of threats or harassment of journalists in connection with their work. Media owners violate the labour rights of journalists with impunity http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87231 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 5 African Writers' Corner ICC WORLD CUP VETERAN FROM AFRICA! Happy birthday, John Nagenda Neither money nor political power can earn you lines in English cricket literature that say, 'He was a mercurial skipper' who was 'elected a vice-president of the Nomads'; 'He was a leading personality in the club' http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/African_Writers/87228 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 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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