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1.	Nigeria: Was it a 14-day dream?
	Author: Sokari Ekine	Date Written: 26 January 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: Pambazuka News Issue # 567
	Secondary Category: North Africa Region	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Nigeria, fuel subsidy, Boko Haram, revolution, police
	Summary & Comment: Is the Nigerian ‘revolution’ over? (re: fuel subsidy removal and restoration) Was it just a brief moment in Nigeria’s history when everyone came together believing that this time things would be different? Or has there been a permanent shift in consciousness? Emmanuel Iduma likens Nigeria’s 14-day revolt to a dream from which we awoke and returned . . . [expand]
2.	Africa: Tragedy of the new African Union headquarters
	Author: Chika Ezeanya	Date Written: 26 January 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: Pambazuka News, Issue 567
	Secondary Category: Economic Justice	Source URL: http://pambazuka.org
	Key Words: African Union, China, Independence, Edifice, Sovereignty
	Summary & Comment: The Chinese government will on January 28 donate the African Union headquarters building in Ethiopia. According to this report, it is an insult that a building as symbolic as the AU headquarters should be donated by a foreign nation when all over African leaders preach sovereignty. Quite a pursuasive argument. FJ
3.	Cameroon: Anglophones feel like a subjugated people
	Author: Ngala Killian Chimtom	Date Written: 26 January 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: Inter Press Service
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.ips.org
	Key Words: Cameroon, anglophones, francophones, discrimination, inferiority.
	Summary & Comment: Anglophone Cameroonians say they do not feel like equal partners with their Francophone counterparts. They experience discrimination in employment opportunities, public services, and socially. Cameroon, a former German colony was divided between France and Britain after the first world war. The two parts were re-united 50 years ago - 1962. JK
4.	Malaria hopes rise as chemists produce cheap artemisinin
	Author: Rachel Mundy	Date Written: 23 January 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: SciDevNet
	Secondary Category: Health and AIDS	Source URL: http://www.scidev.net/
	Key Words: malaria, ACT, precursor, pharmaceuticals
	Summary & Comment: Artemisinin, used as a front-line treatment for malaria, is in short supply. Recent advances in the production of the drug, specifically through a more efficient extraction process, could alleviate this shortage. Not only will this ensure a reliable supply, but also drive prices for the drug down, thus reducing incentives for counterfeit drugs. CJW
5.	Africa: Lessons from uprisings for African Union in 2012 (analysis)
	Author: Solomon A. Dersso	Date Written: 17 January 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: Institute for Security Studies
	Secondary Category: AU/NEPAD	Source URL: http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/21095.html
	Key Words: African Union, democracy, Arab spring, uprisings,
	Summary & Comment: "If shared values of the AU are to play a meaningful role in the discourse and practice of democracy and human rights in Africa, lessons should be learnt from the North African popular uprisings... Despite weaknesses in the AU’s approach to the events in North Africa and its not-so-unreasonable opposition to NATO’s military intervention, one . . . [expand]
6.	Obama and United Nations join push for gay rights in Africa
	Author: The East African	Date Written: 9 January 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: The East African
	Secondary Category: Gender	Source URL: http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/
	Key Words: Africa, gay rights,LGBT, UN, USA, UK, South Africa, Kenya,
	Summary & Comment: Despite almost universal African opposition to homosexuality,saying it is a `western invention’, "Obama and the United Nations’ top human rights official have added their voices to Cameron, the British prime minister’s call for respect for gay rights in Africa and throughout the world... In a landmark report published in mid-December, the UN . . . [expand]
7.	Watch ‘Stealing a Nation’ online
	Author: Robert Bain	Date Written: 8 January 2012
	Primary Category: Africa General	Document Origin: Web
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.chagossupport.org.uk/
	Key Words: Chagossians, Diego Garcia, depopulation
	Summary & Comment: Documentary on the removal of the Chagossians from the island of Diego Garcia during the 1960s by the UK. DOB

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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.