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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 633: MILITARISM, CHINA IN AFRICA AND SILENCING TRUTHS 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 AFRICOM GO HOME! AFRICOM out of Germany - NOW! AFRICOM out of Africa - NOW! On the 50th anniversary of African Liberation Day a group of progressive Pan-Africanists and internationalist activists from around the world declare that the continued military presence of AFRICOM on African soil is profoundly detrimental to the short and long term interests of African people http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87733 ****** KENYA TRUTH COMMISSION REPORT DOCTORED BY STATE HOUSE Gertrude Chawatama, Berhanu Dinka and Ronald C Slye The following statement by three members of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) laments the doctoring of the Land Chapter by the Office of the President. The authors point out ‘the irony of a Commission dedicated to truth, justice, and reconciliation suppressing the voice of a minority in clear violation of agreed upon procedures.’ http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87728 ****** ALGERIA: MORE OF THE SAME Anne Wolf With Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika facing ill health, speculations are arising as to whether he will participate in the elections scheduled for next year and whether real change will shift the prevailing status quo whether he stays in power or does not http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87734 ****** CHINA-AFRICA RELATIONS: LOOKING BEYOND THE CRITICS Babette Zoumara and Abdul-Rauf Ibrahim Africa is lacking a clear and unified policy in terms of how it relates to China. In developing further social, economic and political ties with China, African leaders must develop a coherent and structured plan to promote the interests of Africans http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87735 ****** THE FRONTIER THAT DRONES CAN NEVER CROSS Farooque Chowdhury The increased use of drones raises not only questions related to efficiency and reliability, but also questions about ethics, human rights, legitimacy, sovereignty, and the morality of war http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87715 ****** HAITI: PERSECUTION AND DEATH THREATS TO CAMP ACTIVISTS Sokari Ekine Three activists – Jean-Louis Elijah Joseph, Esther Pierre and human rights lawyer Patrice Florvilus – are now in hiding and in fear for their lives because of defending the interests of people displaced by the 2010 earthquake http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/87714 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 2 Comment & analysis THE SKY GODS OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES Doug Griffin The excesses of our planet have reached toxic levels, with environmental destruction, carbon dioxide emissions, wealth and income inequality disparities and many other socio-economic injustices. This breakdown requires the urgent understanding and action of all humanity http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87716 ****** ETHIOPIA HAS ARISEN Alemayehu G. Mariam Last weekend thousands of young people poured out into the streets of Addis Ababa demanding democratic reforms. The security forces did not attack them as in the past. Peaceful change is possible in Ethiopia http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87717 ****** FIFTY YEARS LATER, WE ARE INDEPENDENT BUT NOT FREE Mugambi Kiai On June 1, Kenya marked 50 years of the declaration of self-rule ahead of the granting of independence on December 12, 1963. But do the country’s people enjoy full freedom? http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87718 ****** CAN'T CROSS, WON'T RETURN Abdul Ghelleh My two countries are both in crisis: one is a failed state which has become almost permanently a terrorist-invested country; and the other is a recession-hit country with increasingly fragmenting society http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87732 ****** THE POWER OF ORGANIZING THE URBAN POOR S'bu Zikode The state has failed the poor in South Africa. Now they must organize themselves and demand an equal place in society, even when this is very difficult. It means that they must survive repression http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87730 ****** MEDIA SIEGE: POLICE FIGHTING THE WRONG ENEMY Deo Tumusiime In one of the most bizarre attacks on media freedom, police descended on certain news organizations in Uganda and closed them down for days because of publishing claims about divisions in the military. The officers’ action displayed lack of professionalism http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87731 ****** NIGERIA: WAITING FOR THE UNDERTAKER Abdulrazaq Magaji Election year 2015 is around the corner. But the year may herald the coming of an undertaker if one of dewy-eyed and colourless governors of the north captures the presidency to further run the region aground as many governors have so far done their fiefdoms http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87729 ****** CHICKENS ROOST IN WOOLWICH Margaret Kimberley Outrage sparked by the recent brutal murder of a British soldier quickly spread around the world. The deed was called depraved, sick, disgusting, savage, horrifying, but this killing was no more awful than those committed by the military from the U.S. or other NATO nations http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/87741 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 3 Advocacy & campaigns HATE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LGBTI PERSONS RISES IN ZAMBIA Tor-Hugne Olsen Since March a combination of factors, including the fall in popularity of Zambia's ruling party PF, has led to a hate campaign against LGBT people in the country http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87737 ****** MESSAGE ON CLIMATE CHANGE TO 21ST AU SUMMIT Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance The biggest challenge for the continent’s economic take-off is climate change, which threatens to roll back multiple gains attained over the past years http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87740 ****** STOP INTIMIDATION AROUND SIERRA LEONE OIL PALM PROJECT Groups around the world accuse European business magnates Vincent Bolloré and Hubert Fabri of using intimidation to silence local opposition to African land grab http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87738 ****** TAKE ACTION ON OFFICER WHO ASSAULTED JOURNALIST MISA-Malawi The Media Institute of Southern Africa's (MISA) Malawi Chapter is calling upon the National Assembly and the Police to act on Parliamentary Chief Security Officer, Youngson Chilinda, for assaulting photojournalist Thoko Chikondi http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/advocacy/87739 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 4 Books & arts ADICHIE’S AMERICADABRA Biko Agozino Adichie appears to be trying to demonstrate that all novels are full of lies but that readers prefer delightful lies to inconvenient truths. That is why novels sell millions of copies while boring scholarly tomes manage a few hundred copies in sales http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/87736 ****** /\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\/\/\//\ 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. For further details see: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/about.php Pambazuka news can be viewed online: English language edition ( http://www.pambazuka.org/en ) Edição em língua Portuguesa ( http://www.pambazuka.org/pt ) Edition française ( http://www.pambazuka.org/fr ) RSS Feeds available at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/newsfeed.php Pambazuka News is published with the support of a number of funders, details of which can be obtained here ( http://www.pambazuka.org/en/about.php ) . 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