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1.	Tanzania: Daud Mwangosi - A line has been crossed
	Author: Author	Date Written: 4 September 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: DARAJA blog
	Secondary Category: Media	Source URL: http://blog.daraja.org/
	Key Words: Tanzania, media, Chadema, Mwangosi, police,
	Summary & Comment: Journalists were covering the opening of a new office in Nyololo of a new political party `Chadema’. They tell us that Daud Mwangosi was in Nyololo together with several other journalists , in defiance of police orders against political activities during the census period. There was a heavy police presence in the village. Many photos were taken.Man . . . [expand]
2.	Tutu calls for Blair and Bush to be tried over Iraq
	Author: CISA News Africa	Date Written: 4 September 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
	Secondary Category: AU/NEPAD	Source URL: http://www.cisaanewsafrica.com
	Key Words: Africa; Iraq, Bush, Blair, ICC, Iran, Syria
	Summary & Comment: Tutu points out that only Africans have been tried yet in the ICC, and proposes that Blair and Bush should be tried there because of lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction, acting like immoral playground bullies, and killing so many Iraqi’s. Blair replied listing all the ills that Saddam Husein had done. JK
3.	Political crisis in Mali and the rise of fundamentalisms
	Author: Ani Colekessian	Date Written: 24 August 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: Association for Women’s Rights in Development AWID
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://awid.org/eng
	Key Words: Mali, Islam, fundamentalisms, secularists, resistance
	Summary & Comment: A coup d’état and the occupation of northern Mali have left many searching for answers to a deepening crisis. AWID spoke with Head of Cooperation at the Netherlands Embassy in Mali, To Tjoelker, and socio-anthropologist Lalla Mariam Haidara, native of Timbuktu and specialist on women’s rights in Mali, to shed light on the situation. JK
4.	Beyond turf wars in coup-hit Guinea-Bissau
	Author: Africa Report N°190 – 17 August 2012	Date Written: 17 August 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: International Crisis Group
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/med dia-releases/2012/africa/beyond-turf-wars-in-coup- -hit-guinea-bissau.aspx
	Key Words: Guinea-Bissau, Coup, Post Coup transition, Drug Trafficking to Europe,
	Summary & Comment: International actors need to commit to a common strategy to help coup-plagued Guinea-Bissau implement the security, justice and electoral reforms it needs to escape its status as a link in drug trafficking to Europe. The latest International Crisis Group report, urges the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Community of Portu . . . [expand]
5.	Aid cuts make development a priority for Africa
	Author: Tom Jackson	Date Written: 9 August 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: Ventures Africa.com
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.ventures-africa.com
	Key Words: development, donor, funding, EFA, GHI
	Summary & Comment: Africa has the resources, its about time it finds ways to fund its development. The West will always first gets its house in order before extending a helping hand. M. Makoni
6.	Directing technology transfer from China to Africa
	Author: Linda Nordling	Date Written: 2 August 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: Science and Development Network
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.scidev.net/
	Key Words: Science, Technolgy, China- Africa coorperation
	Summary & Comment: Africa can learn a lot from China’s booming economy about how science and technology can help to boost development — a fact not lost on either party. Technology transfer will be a key element of a new phase in the partnership between the two, which was agreed at the fifth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) that took place in Beijing on 19–20 . . . [expand]
7.	Southern African women making inroads into the peace and security sector
	Author: Cheryl Hendricks	Date Written: 2 August 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: Institute for Security Studies
	Secondary Category: Gender	Source URL: http://www.issafrica.org/iss_today
	Key Words: Southern Africa, peacekeeping, women,security, inclusion
	Summary & Comment: Over the last twelve years, UNSCR 1325 has directed international attention to the increased participation of women in peace and security, the protection of women during conflict and the prevention of gender-based violence. SADC has now made steps in the involvement of women in peacekeeping and security. It is expected the trend will increase with . . . [expand]

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1. Why Ghana musn’t give in to superstition
   Disturbed by two incidents involving elderly women suspected of witchcraft – one of whom was burnt alive, while the other was denied medical treatment – Cameron Duodu calls for Ghana to value the lives of all its citizens.
2. Kenya: Dealing with drought
   ‘Defying the image of Kenyans as a parasitic nation that would gladly stand by and watch fellow citizens die’, Kenyans of various backgrounds have raised ‘in eight days ten times what the Kenyan government had pledged to put towards food distribution to the drought stricken areas,’ writes H. Nanjala Nyabola. Shouldn't the government be doing more?
3. The value of storytelling
   ‘Storytellers accounting for the role of terrorism in defining modern societies have chosen to tell a story in which communities are constituted and bound by an irrational fear of difference,’ writes H. Nanjala Nyabola.
4. Not having doesn’t equate to not being
   When will aid agencies ‘develop a system of asking for assistance that does not involve dehumanising African people, especially children,’ asks H. Nanjala Nyabola.
5. This thing tolerance
   Last year’s backlash against homosexuals in Malawi and Uganda is ‘cause for great concern’, but it shouldn’t be taken as ‘as evidence of the apparently enduring homophobia of African people in general’, argues H. Nanjala Nyabola.