News: US cuts funding for condoms on Marie Stopes clinics
By ACAS | 6 October 2008
The US government is cutting its funding for the supply of contraceptives to family planning clinics run by Marie Stopes International in Africa, alleging that it condones forced abortions in China.
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By ACAS | 2 October 2008
“While the many challenges faced by Africa—political instability and violent conflict, economic stagnation and poverty, disease and malnutrition—are well-known, Senator McCain has long believed that the continent also holds incredible promise, reminding his audience earlier this year in his speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, for example, that “we must refocus on the bright promise offered by many countries on that continent,” rather than being fixated on its problems,” writes McCain’s Africa adviser J. Peter Pham.
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By ACAS | 29 September 2008
Peter Alegi, a historian based at Michigan State University in East Lansing, like most Africanists, was frustrated with the way media cover African topics. So he took matters into his own hands utilizing new technologies.
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By ACAS | 29 September 2008
The first issue of LGD, Law, Social Justice and Global Development, a new electronic law journal published by Warwick University, is now available online.
...read the restWest African journalists fight back
By ACAS | 29 September 2008
The Committee to Protect Journalists (which has a dedicated Africa-page on their website) has an update on media developments in West Africa.
...read the restNiger Delta update
By ACAS | 26 September 2008
Nigerian activist Nnimmo Bassey this week told a US Senate hearing on human rights about abuses by security forces working for Chevron Corporation.
...read the restHumanitarian Crisis Deepens as Peace Process Falters in DR Congo
By ACAS | 25 September 2008
Renewed combat in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has caused a drastic deterioration in the humanitarian situation and immense suffering for civilians, the Congo Advocacy Coalition, a group of 83 aid agencies and human rights groups, said today. The coalition called for urgent action to improve protection of civilians and an immediate increase in assistance to vulnerable populations.
...read the restSouth Africa in Africa
By ACAS | 25 September 2008
Tanzanian scholar and social critic Issa Shivji has likened South African capital’s invasion in the rest of the African continent to a “second wave of primitive accumulation.”
...read the restCrisis Group Proposes A New Conflict Resolution Framework for Chad
By ACAS | 25 September 2008
The political and security crisis Chad faces is internal, and has been exacerbated rather than caused by the meddling of its Sudanese neighbours.
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By Sean Jacobs | 24 September 2008
Sean Jacobs (Concerned Africa Scholars co-chair), writes about the end of the Mbeki-era and its aftermath at The Guardian Online.
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