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Tanzania: Daud Mwangosi - A line has been crossed
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Author: Author
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Date Written: 4 September 2012
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Primary Category:
Africa General
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Document Origin: DARAJA blog
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Secondary Category:
Media
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Source URL:
http://blog.daraja.org/
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Key Words: Tanzania, media, Chadema, Mwangosi, police,
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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 . . .
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Tutu calls for Blair and Bush to be tried over Iraq
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Author: CISA News Africa
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Date Written: 4 September 2012
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Primary Category:
Africa General
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Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
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Secondary Category:
AU/NEPAD
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Source URL:
http://www.cisaanewsafrica.com
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Key Words: Africa; Iraq, Bush, Blair, ICC, Iran, Syria
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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
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Political crisis in Mali and the rise of fundamentalisms
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Author: Ani Colekessian
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Date Written: 24 August 2012
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Primary Category:
Africa General
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Document Origin: Association for Women’s Rights in Development AWID
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Secondary Category:
Western Region
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Source URL:
http://awid.org/eng
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Key Words: Mali, Islam, fundamentalisms, secularists, resistance
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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
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Beyond turf wars in coup-hit Guinea-Bissau
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Author: Africa Report N°190 – 17 August 2012
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Date Written: 17 August 2012
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Primary Category:
Africa General
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Document Origin: International Crisis Group
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/publication-type/med
dia-releases/2012/africa/beyond-turf-wars-in-coup-
-hit-guinea-bissau.aspx
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Key Words: Guinea-Bissau, Coup, Post Coup transition, Drug Trafficking to Europe,
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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 . . .
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Aid cuts make development a priority for Africa
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Author: Tom Jackson
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Date Written: 9 August 2012
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Primary Category:
Africa General
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Document Origin: Ventures Africa.com
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Secondary Category:
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Source URL:
http://www.ventures-africa.com
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Key Words: development, donor, funding, EFA, GHI
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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
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Directing technology transfer from China to Africa
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Author: Linda Nordling
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Date Written: 2 August 2012
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Primary Category:
Africa General
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Document Origin: Science and Development Network
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Secondary Category:
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Source URL:
http://www.scidev.net/
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Key Words: Science, Technolgy, China- Africa coorperation
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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 . . .
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Southern African women making inroads into the peace and security sector
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Author: Cheryl Hendricks
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Date Written: 2 August 2012
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Primary Category:
Africa General
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Document Origin: Institute for Security Studies
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Secondary Category:
Gender
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Source URL:
http://www.issafrica.org/iss_today
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Key Words: Southern Africa, peacekeeping, women,security, inclusion
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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 . . .
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