Joseph Hanlon Parliament on 30 April rejected Renamo’s proposal to create “autonomous provinces” (autarquias provinciais) similar to the elected municipalities. The vote was 138 to 98, with Frelimo voting against and Renamo and MDM voting for. The bill had already been discussed by two parliamentary committees, Constitution and Public Administration.O Pais (30 April) published ten…
Month: May 2015
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Poem: This is the right plant
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Poem by Noel Zacharia In this peom Noel Zacharia talks about the enormous industrial, medicinal and nutritional values of a certain natural plant and urges on the law makers, policy makers, legal experts, medical doctors among others to re-consider the status of this plant. You are left to judge for yourselves which plant is this…
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Will the world remain silent with Rwanda and Uganda in DR Congo again?
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An interview with international criminal defense attorney and former law professor Peter Erlinder Ann Garrison INTRODUCTION Rwandan and Ugandan troops have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the past two weeks, but reporting is scant and neither the U.S., the U.N. Security Council nor any other members of the international community have…
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Deadly disinformation
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War, the mainstream media and the tragic death of African refugees Julie Lévesque The tragic death of hundreds of refugees last week in the Mediterranean Sea has once again brought to light the deadly hypocrisy of Western leaders and their mainstream press. Omissions and distortions are disconnecting the catastrophic event from its roots, preventing the…
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Riots, rebellion and the Black working class
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Lee Sustar looks at the changing dynamics of African American urban rebellion–from the uprising in Watts 50 years ago this summer to the eruption in Baltimore today. May 6, 2015 THE UPRISING in Baltimore over the past few weeks followed a familiar pattern for anyone who knows about the great African American urban rebellions of…
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KEMET FORUM LAUNCHED
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ANNOUNCEMENT Fellow Kemetites please be informed that our website has now been launched: www.kemetforum.com/ Nevertheless, it is still work in progress. This is not final. Hence Kemetites are requested to visit this website and make comments on how we can improve it further. Those of you who have materials that you feel should be posted…
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Burundi on the brink
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When Faustin Kobagaya fled his northern Burundi home in March, sneaking through the night to the Rwandan border, he was running from what could soon become another violent chapter in his country’s fratricidal history. As a 10-year-old in 1993, Mr. Kobagaya, a member of Burundi’s Tutsi minority, lost most of his extended family in a…
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